longitudo
Esperanto edit
Etymology edit
From Latin longitūdō (“length, longitude”) (which is derived from Latin longus (“long”)); from English longitude; from French longitude.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
longitudo (accusative singular longitudon, plural longitudoj, accusative plural longitudojn)
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Ido edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from Esperanto longitudo, English longitude, French longitude, Italian longitudine, Spanish longitud, from Latin longitūdō (“length, longitude”) (which is derived from longus (“long”)).
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Noun edit
longitudo (plural longitudi)
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Latin edit
Etymology edit
From longus (“far, long”) + -tūdō. In the astronomical and geographical sense, a calque of Ancient Greek μῆκος (mêkos).
Pronunciation edit
- (Classical) IPA(key): /lon.ɡiˈtuː.doː/, [ɫ̪ɔŋɡɪˈt̪uːd̪oː]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /lon.d͡ʒiˈtu.do/, [lon̠ʲd͡ʒiˈt̪uːd̪o]
Noun edit
longitūdō f (genitive longitūdinis); third declension
- (of space) length, longitude; longness.
- (of time) A (long) duration, length.
- (of writing or speech) lengthiness
Declension edit
Third-declension noun.
| Case | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| Nominative | longitūdō | longitūdinēs |
| Genitive | longitūdinis | longitūdinum |
| Dative | longitūdinī | longitūdinibus |
| Accusative | longitūdinem | longitūdinēs |
| Ablative | longitūdine | longitūdinibus |
| Vocative | longitūdō | longitūdinēs |
Synonyms edit
- (duration): longiturnitās
- (length): longinquitās, longitia
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Descendants edit
- → Catalan: longitud
- → English: longitude
- → Esperanto: longitudo
- → French: longitude
- → Friulian: longjitudin
- → Galician: lonxitude
- → Ido: longitudo
- → Italian: longitudine
- → Occitan: longitud
- → Piedmontese: longitùdin
- → Portuguese: longitude
- → Spanish: longitud
References edit
- “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
- to extend in breadth, in length: in latitudinem, in longitudinem patere
Swahili edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from English longitude.
Noun edit
longitudo (n class, plural longitudo)