longus

longus (feminine longa, neuter longum, comparative longior, superlative longissimus, adverb longē or longiter); first/second-declension adjective

(literally):
1. (of space, in general) far, long; extended, prolonged
2. (in particular) remote, distant, far off
  Synonym: longinquus
3. great, vast, spacious
4. tall (of people)
  Synonym: altus
  - c. 84 BCE – 54 BCE, Catullus, Carmina 86.1–2:
    Quīntia fōrmōsa est multīs, mihi candida, longa, / rēcta est.
    Quintia is beautiful for many, for me she is fair-skinned, tall, upright.
(transferred sense)
1. (of time) long, of long duration or continuance; tedious, laborious
  - c. 4 BCE – 65 CE, Seneca the Younger, De brevitate vitae 13:
    Persequi singulos longum est quorum aut latrunculi aut pila aut excoquendi in sole corporis cura consumpsere uitam.
    It would be tedious to mention all the different men who have spent the whole of their life over chess or ball or the practice of baking their bodies in the sun.
  - c. 52 BCE, Julius Caesar, Commentarii de Bello Gallico 6.8:
    Longum esse perterritis Romanis Germanorum auxilium exspectare.
    They said it would be tedious to wait for the assistance of the Germans while the Romans were terrified.
2. (of speech or writing) long-winded, lengthy
  Longum iter per praecepta, breve per exempla. ― (Education is) a long road by lessons, a short one by examples.

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Inflection Edit

First/second-declension adjective.

Case / Gender	Masculine	Feminine	Neuter	Masculine	Feminine	Neuter
Number	Singular			Plural
Nominative	longus	longa	longum	longī	longae	longa
Genitive	longī	longae	longī	longōrum	longārum	longōrum
Dative	longō	longae	longō	longīs
Accusative	longum	longam	longum	longōs	longās	longa
Ablative	longō	longā	longō	longīs
Vocative	longe	longa	longum	longī	longae	longa

Antonyms Edit

brevis

Derived terms Edit

Related terms Edit

Descendants Edit

Descendants of longus in other languages

Aromanian: lungu
Asturian: llongu
Dalmatian: luang
→ Emilian: lóng
→ English: longus
→ Franco-Provençal: long
Friulian: lunc
→ Istriot: longo
Italian: lungo
Ladin: lonch
→ Ligurian: lóngo
Neapolitan: luongo
→ Old French: long, lonc; lunc
- French: long
- Norman: long (Jersey), laong (Guernsey)
→ Old Irish: long
- Irish: long
- Manx: lhong
- Scottish Gaelic: long
Old Occitan: lonc
- Occitan: long
- Catalan: llong
→ Old Galician-Portuguese: longo
- Galician: longo
- Portuguese: longo
Romanian: lung
Romansch: lung
→ Sardinian: longu
→ Sicilian: longu
→ Spanish: longo
Spanish: luengo
→ Venetian: longo
→ Walloon: long
→ Welsh: llong

References Edit

“longus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
“longus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
longus 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)
longus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette
Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
- to accomplish a long journey: longam viam conficere
- (ambiguous) this word ends in a long syllable: haec vox longa syllaba terminatur, in longam syllabam cadit, exit
- not to be prolix: ne longus, multus sim
- (ambiguous) at a great distance: longo spatio, intervallo interiecto
- (ambiguous) to finish a very long journey: longum itineris spatium emetiri
- (ambiguous) after a fairly long interval: satis longo intervallo
- (ambiguous) this word ends in a long syllable: haec vox longa syllaba terminatur, in longam syllabam cadit, exit
- (ambiguous) to begin with a long syllable: oriri a longa (De Or. 1. 55. 236)
- (ambiguous) a man-of-war: navis longa
- (ambiguous) not to be prolix: ne longum sit
“longus”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
“longus”, in William Smith, editor (1848) A Dictionary of Greek Biography and Mythology, London: John Murray
“longus”, in William Smith, editor (1854, 1857) A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography, volume 1 & 2, London: Walton and Maberly