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Etymology

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From Latin longitūdō (length, longitude) (which is derived from Latin longus (long)); from English longitude; from French longitude.

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  • IPA(key): [lonɡiˈtudo]
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  • Rhymes: -udo
  • Hyphenation: lon‧gi‧tu‧do

Noun

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longitudo (accusative singular longitudon, plural longitudoj, accusative plural longitudojn)

  1. (geography) longitude (imaginary lines from the North Pole to the South Pole)
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Etymology

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Borrowed from Esperanto longitudoEnglish longitudeFrench longitudeItalian longitudineSpanish longitud, from Latin longitūdō (length, longitude) (which is derived from longus (long)).

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Noun

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longitudo (plural longitudi)

  1. (geography) longitude
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Latin

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Etymology

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From longus (far, long) +‎ -tūdō. In the astronomical and geographical sense, a calque of Ancient Greek μῆκος (mêkos).

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Noun

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longitūdō f (genitive longitūdinis); third declension

  1. (of space) length, longitude; longness.
  2. (of time) A (long) duration, length.
  3. (of writing or speech) lengthiness

Declension

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Third-declension noun.

Case Singular Plural
Nominative longitūdō longitūdinēs
Genitive longitūdinis longitūdinum
Dative longitūdinī longitūdinibus
Accusative longitūdinem longitūdinēs
Ablative longitūdine longitūdinibus
Vocative longitūdō longitūdinēs

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Descendants

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References

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  • longitudo”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • longitudo”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • longitudo in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
  • longitudo in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
  • Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
    • to extend in breadth, in length: in latitudinem, in longitudinem patere

Swahili

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Ramani ya dunia inayoonyesha mistari ya longitudo (toka juu kuelekea chini) na latitudo (toka kushoto kuelekea kulia).
 
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Etymology

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Borrowed from English longitude.

Noun

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longitudo (n class, plural longitudo)

  1. (geography) longitude
    Coordinate term: latitudo