continua
Portuguese, noun
continua is spelled C-O-N-T-I-N-U-A (8 letters) and appears 129 times per million words in written Portuguese, the 755th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Continua is a Portuguese masculine noun meaning “plural of continuum” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is also a third-person singular present indicative of continuar. With an accent, contínua is a different word: “feminine singular of contínuo”.
What does continua mean in English?
verb
- 1
third-person singular present indicative
- 2
second-person singular imperative
noun
- 1
masculineplural of continuum
adjective
- 1
femininefeminine singular of contínuo
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
phrase: 1. expressa que há ou haverá uma sequência que dará continuidade ao apresentado
The definition in the Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário), in Portuguese.
Source: Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
How common is continua in Portuguese?
continua appears 129 times per million words in written Portuguese.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).