Italian

Noun

magnitudo f ‎(invariable)

1. magnitude - of an earthquake

See also

• magnitudine

Latin

Etymology

From magnus ‎(“big, great”) +‎ -tūdō.

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /maŋ.niˈtuː.doː/

Noun

magnitūdō f ‎(genitive magnitūdinis); third declension

1. Greatness, size, bulk, magnitude; vastness, extent.
2. A great number, amount or quantity, abundance.

Inflection

Third declension.

Descendants

• English: magnitude
• French: magnitude
• Italian: magnitudo
• Russian: магнитуда ‎(magnituda)
• Spanish: magnitud

References

• 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, 1883–1887)
• Félix Gaffiot (1934), “magnitudo”, in Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette.
• Meissner, Carl; Auden, Henry William (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
  • to differ qualitatively not quantitatively: genere, non numero or magnitudine differre