latitudo
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Noun edit
latitudo (accusative singular latitudon, plural latitudoj, accusative plural latitudojn)
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Ido edit
Noun edit
latitudo (plural latitudi)
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Latin edit
Etymology edit
From lātus (“wide”) + -tūdō. In the astronomical and geographical sense, a calque of Ancient Greek κλίμα (klíma).
Pronunciation edit
- (Classical) IPA(key): /laː.tiˈtuː.doː/, [ɫ̪äːt̪ɪˈt̪uːd̪oː]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /la.tiˈtu.do/, [lät̪iˈt̪uːd̪o]
Noun edit
lātitūdō f (genitive lātitūdinis); third declension
- breadth, width, latitude
- (by extension) extent, size, compass, broadness
- (figuratively, rare) a broad pronunciation; richness of expression
Declension edit
Third-declension noun.
| Case | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| Nominative | lātitūdō | lātitūdinēs |
| Genitive | lātitūdinis | lātitūdinum |
| Dative | lātitūdinī | lātitūdinibus |
| Accusative | lātitūdinem | lātitūdinēs |
| Ablative | lātitūdine | lātitūdinibus |
| Vocative | lātitūdō | lātitūdinēs |
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- Catalan: latitud
- Old French: latitude
- Friulian: latitudin
- Italian: latitudine
- Piedmontese: latitùdin
- Portuguese: latitude
- Romanian: latitudine
- Spanish: latitud
References edit
- “latitudo”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “latitudo”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- latitudo 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
- to extend in breadth, in length: in latitudinem, in longitudinem patere
Swahili edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from English latitude.
Noun edit
latitudo (n class, plural latitudo)