Latin

Noun

altitūdō f ‎(genitive altitūdinis); third declension

1. height (distance from bottom to top)
2. depth
3. (figuratively) spiritual or emotional depth

Inflection

Third declension.

Related terms

• altō
• altus

Descendants

• French: altitude

References

• 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, 1883–1887)
• Félix Gaffiot (1934), “altitudo”, in Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette.
• Meissner, Carl; Auden, Henry William (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
  • the exalted strain of the speech: elatio atque altitudo orationis