'Continue' is Latin for 'hold together without a break' — from 'tenere' (to hold). Unbroken persistence.
To persist in an activity or process; to carry on without interruption; to resume after a pause.
From Old French 'continuer,' from Latin 'continuāre' (to make continuous, to join together), from 'continuus' (unbroken, connected), from 'continēre' (to hold together), from 'con-' (together) + 'tenēre' (to hold), from PIE *ten- (to stretch, to hold). To continue is literally to 'hold together' without a break — to keep the parts of an action or process joined in an unbroken sequence. The PIE root *ten- is extraordinarily productive in English: it gives 'tendon' (that which holds muscles
In programming, 'continue' is a control flow statement that skips to the next iteration of a loop — paradoxically, it causes the current iteration to stop. This is the opposite of the English meaning but preserves a specific nuance: the loop itself continues, even though the current step does not. The programmers who named it focused on the loop's continuation rather than the iteration's interruption.