altitudo
Esperanto
editEtymology
editDerived from Latin altitūdō, from altus (“high, lofty”) + -tūdō.
Pronunciation
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Noun
editaltitudo (uncountable, accusative altitudon)
- absolute height
- (astronomy) distance measured angularly of a heavenly body
Derived terms
editIndonesian
editEtymology
editLearned borrowing from Latin altitūdō.
Pronunciation
editNoun
editaltitudo (first-person possessive altitudoku, second-person possessive altitudomu, third-person possessive altitudonya)
Alternative forms
edit- altitud (Standard Malay)
Further reading
edit- “altitudo” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016.
Latin
editEtymology
editFrom altus (“high, lofty”) + -tūdō.
Pronunciation
edit- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /al.tiˈtuː.doː/, [äɫ̪t̪ɪˈt̪uːd̪oː]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /al.tiˈtu.do/, [äl̪t̪iˈt̪uːd̪o]
Noun
editaltitūdō f (genitive altitūdinis); third declension
- height (distance from bottom to top)
- c. 177 CE, Aulus Gellius, Noctes Atticae 1.20.8:
- Eam [līneam] M. [Mārcus] Varrō ita dēfīnit: "Līnea est," inquit, "longitūdō quaedam sine lātitūdine et altitūdine."
- Marcus Varro defines it [a line] in this way: "A line is," he says, "a certain length without width and height."
- Eam [līneam] M. [Mārcus] Varrō ita dēfīnit: "Līnea est," inquit, "longitūdō quaedam sine lātitūdine et altitūdine."
- depth
- c. 52 BCE, Julius Caesar, Commentarii de Bello Gallico 2.18:
- Flūminis erat altitūdō pedum circiter trium.
- The depth of the river was about three feet.
- Flūminis erat altitūdō pedum circiter trium.
- (figuratively) spiritual or emotional depth
Declension
editThird-declension noun.
Case | Singular | Plural |
---|---|---|
Nominative | altitūdō | altitūdinēs |
Genitive | altitūdinis | altitūdinum |
Dative | altitūdinī | altitūdinibus |
Accusative | altitūdinem | altitūdinēs |
Ablative | altitūdine | altitūdinibus |
Vocative | altitūdō | altitūdinēs |
Related terms
editDescendants
edit- Catalan: altitud
- English: altitude
- Esperanto: altitudo
- French: altitude
- Italian: altitudine
- Portuguese: altitude
- Romanian: altitudine
- Spanish: altitud
References
edit- “altitudo”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “altitudo”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- altitudo 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)
- altitudo in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
- the exalted strain of the speech: elatio atque altitudo orationis
- the exalted strain of the speech: elatio atque altitudo orationis
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