per-petuus adj. per+1 PAT-, continuous, unbroken, uninterrupted, constant, entire, whole, perpetual: agmen: vigiliaeque stationesque, a continuous line of, etc., Cs.: Perpetuis soliti patres considere mensis, V.: innocentia perpetuā vitā perspecta, in the whole tenor of his life, Cs.: oratio (opp. altercatio): quaestiones, a permanent court for criminal trials: historia, a general history: diem perpetuum in laetitiā degere, this whole day, T.: lex: stellarum cursūs: formido, V.: rota, perpetuum quā circumvertitur axem (i. e. perpetuo), O.

—As subst n.: in perpetuum (sc. tempus), for all time, forever.

—Universal, general: perpetui iuris quaestio: quaestio, a general principle.