latitudo

latitudo

Esperanto

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [latiˈtudo]
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• Rhymes: -udo
• Hyphenation: la‧ti‧tu‧do

Noun

latitudo (accusative singular latitudon, plural latitudoj, accusative plural latitudojn)

1. (geography) latitude

Related terms

• longitudo

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Noun

latitudo (plural latitudi)

1. (geography) latitude

Related terms

• longitudo

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Latin

Etymology

From lātus (“wide”) +‎ -tūdō.

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /laː.tiˈtuː.doː/, [ɫ̪äːt̪ɪˈt̪uːd̪oː]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /la.tiˈtu.do/, [lät̪iˈt̪uːd̪o]

Noun

lātitūdō f (genitive lātitūdinis); third declension

1. breadth, width, latitude
2. (by extension) extent, size, compass, broadness
3. (figuratively, rare) a broad pronunciation; richness of expression

Declension

Third-declension noun.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	lātitūdō	lātitūdinēs
Genitive	lātitūdinis	lātitūdinum
Dative	lātitūdinī	lātitūdinibus
Accusative	lātitūdinem	lātitūdinēs
Ablative	lātitūdine	lātitūdinibus
Vocative	lātitūdō	lātitūdinēs

Synonyms

• (breadth): amplitūdō
• (richness of expression): amplitūdō

Related terms

• lātipēs
• lātitia
• lātus

Descendants

• Catalan: latitud
• Old French: latitude
  • → Middle English: latitude
  • French: latitude
• Friulian: latitudin
• Italian: latitudine
• Piedmontese: latitùdin
• Portuguese: latitude
• Romanian: latitudine
• Spanish: latitud

References

• “latitudo”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “latitudo”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• latitudo in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette
• Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎, London: Macmillan and Co.
  • to extend in breadth, in length: in latitudinem, in longitudinem patere