ad infinitum

Unadapted borrowing from Latin ad īnfīnītum (“to infinity”).

• enPR: ăd ĭn′fə-nī′təm
• (Received Pronunciation, General American, Canada) IPA^(key): /æd ˌɪn.fəˈnaɪ.təm/
• (Received Pronunciation, Scotland) IPA^(key): /ad ˌɪn.fəˈnaɪ.təm/
• (Canada) IPA^(key): /æd ˌɪn.fəˈnʌɪ.təm/
• (General Australian) IPA^(key): /æd ˌɪn.fəˈnɑɪ.təm/
• (New Zealand) IPA^(key): /ɛd ˌən.fəˈnaɪ.təm/
• (Scotland) IPA^(key): /ad ˌɪn.fəˈnʌi.təm/, /ad ˌɪn.fəˈnəi.təm/
• (India) IPA^(key): /æɖ ˌin.fiˈnaj.ʈəm/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˌæd ɪnfɪˈnaɪtəm/

• Audio (General Australian):

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• Rhymes: -aɪtəm
• Hyphenation: ad in‧fi‧ni‧tum

ad infinitum (not comparable)

1. Endlessly; for ever; never-endingly.
   • 1984, Milan Kundera, part I (Lightness and Weight), chapter I, in Michael Henry Heim, transl., The Unbearable Lightness of Being, London: Faber and Faber, translation of Nesnesitelná lehkost bytí, published 1985, →ISBN, page 3:

     The idea of eternal return is a mysterious one, and Nietzsche has often perplexed other philosophers with it: to think that everything recurs as we once experienced it, and that the recurrence itself recurs ad infinitum!

Unadapted borrowing from Latin ad īnfīnītum (“to infinity”).

• IPA^(key): /ad in.fi.ˈni.tum/, [at ɪn.fiːˈni.tuːm]

• Audio (Germany (Berlin)):

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• Hyphenation: ad in‧fi‧ni‧tum

ad infinitum

1. ad infinitum (endlessly)

   Synonyms: in infinitum, endlos

• “ad infinitum” in Duden online

• in īnfīnītō, in īnfīnītum

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈad ĩː.fiːˈniː.tũː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈad iɱ.fiˈniː.tum]

ad īnfīnītum (not comparable)

1. to or till infinity, to an unlimited extent, without restriction, everywhere, at pleasure

• → German: ad infinitum (learned)
• → English: ad infinitum (learned)
• → Spanish: ad infinitum (learned)
• → Polish: ad infinitum (learned)
• → Portuguese: ad infinitum (learned)

• “in-fīnītus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “infīnītus ¶4”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette: “814/3”
• “infīnītus ¶2” on page 900/1 of the Oxford Latin Dictionary (1st ed., 1968–82)

• (abbreviation) ad inf.

Unadapted borrowing from Latin ad īnfīnītum (“to infinity”).

• IPA^(key): /at ˌin.fiˈɲi.tum/

• Audio:

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• Syllabification: ad in‧fi‧ni‧tum

ad infinitum (not comparable)

1. ad infinitum (endlessly)

• ad infinitum in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Unadapted borrowing from Latin ad īnfīnītum (“to infinity”).

ad infinitum (not comparable)

1. ad infinitum (endlessly)

   Synonyms: see Thesaurus:sempre

Unadapted borrowing from Latin ad īnfīnītum (“to infinity”).

• IPA^(key): /ˌad infiˈnitum/ [ˌað̞ ĩɱ.fiˈni.t̪ũm]

• Audio (El Salvador):

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• Syllabification: ad in‧fi‧ni‧tum

ad infinitum

1. ad infinitum (endlessly)

   Synonym: indefinidamente

• “ad infinitum”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8.1, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 15 December 2025