The story
- Latin · derived fromcontinuus“constant, continuous”
- Spanish · borrowed fromcontinuo
- English todaycontinuo
From Spanish continuo, ellipsis of hombre continuo (“constant and steadfast man”), from Latin continuus (“constant, continuous”).
Words from the same roots
Latincontinuus all →
continuouscontinual
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.