magnitudo
See also: magnitúdó
Indonesian edit
Etymology edit
Learned borrowing from Latin magnitūdō.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
magnitudo (first-person possessive magnitudoku, second-person possessive magnitudomu, third-person possessive magnitudonya)
- magnitude
- (seismology) A measure of the energy released by an earthquake (e.g. on the Richter scale).
- (astronomy) A logarithmic scale of brightness defined so that a difference of 5 magnitudes is a factor of 100.
- A ratio of intensity expressed as a logarithm.
Alternative forms edit
- magnitud (Standard Malay)
Derived terms edit
Further reading edit
- “magnitudo” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Language Development and Fostering Agency — Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic Indonesia, 2016.
Italian edit
Etymology edit
Unadapted borrowing from Latin magnitūdinem. Doublet of magnitudine.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
magnitudo f (invariable)
- (seismology) magnitude (energy released by an earthquake)
Further reading edit
- magnitudo in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana
Latin edit
Etymology edit
From magnus (“big, great”) + -tūdō.
Pronunciation edit
- (Classical) IPA(key): /maɡ.niˈtuː.doː/, [mäŋnɪˈt̪uːd̪oː]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /maɲ.ɲiˈtu.do/, [mäɲːiˈt̪uːd̪o]
Noun edit
magnitūdō f (genitive magnitūdinis); third declension
- greatness, size, bulk, magnitude; vastness, extent.
- a great number, amount or quantity, abundance.
- Synonyms: cōpia, abundantia, affluentia, ūbertās, fertilitās, ūber
- Antonyms: dēficientia, cāritās, inopia
Declension edit
Third-declension noun.
Case | Singular | Plural |
---|---|---|
Nominative | magnitūdō | magnitūdinēs |
Genitive | magnitūdinis | magnitūdinum |
Dative | magnitūdinī | magnitūdinibus |
Accusative | magnitūdinem | magnitūdinēs |
Ablative | magnitūdine | magnitūdinibus |
Vocative | magnitūdō | magnitūdinēs |
Descendants edit
- → English: magnitude
- → French: magnitude
- → Italian: magnitudine, magnitudo
- → Portuguese: magnitude
- → Romanian: magnitudine
- → Russian: магнитуда (magnituda)
- → Spanish: magnitud
References edit
- “magnitudo”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “magnitudo”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- magnitudo 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)
- magnitudo in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette
- Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
- to differ qualitatively not quantitatively: genere, non numero or magnitudine differre
- to differ qualitatively not quantitatively: genere, non numero or magnitudine differre