Esperanto

Noun

longitudo ‎(accusative singular longitudon, plural longitudoj, accusative plural longitudojn)

1. (geography) longitude (imaginary lines from the North Pole to the South Pole)

Related terms

• latitudo

Ido

Etymology

From Latin longitūdō ‎(“length, longitude”) (which is derived from Latin longus ‎(“long”)); from English longitude; from French longitude, from Esperanto longitudo.

Noun

longitudo (plural longitudi)

1. (geography) longitude

Related terms

• latitudo

Latin

Etymology

From longus ‎(“far, long”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /lon.ɡiˈtuː.doː/

Noun

longitūdō f ‎(genitive longitūdinis); third declension

1. (of space) Length, longitude; longness.
2. (of time) A (long) duration, length.
3. (of writing or speech) lengthiness
4. vocative singular of longitūdō

Inflection

Third declension.

Synonyms

• (duration): longiturnitās
• (length): longinquitās, longitia

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Descendants

References

• 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, 1883–1887)
• Félix Gaffiot (1934), “longitudo”, in Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette.
• Meissner, Carl; Auden, Henry William (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
  • to extend in breadth, in length: in latitudinem, in longitudinem patere