longitudo

Esperanto

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [lonɡiˈtudo]
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• Rhymes: -udo
• Hyphenation: lon‧gi‧tu‧do

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

Borrowed from Esperanto longitudo, English longitude, French longitude, Italian longitudine, Spanish longitud, from Latin longitūdō (“length, longitude”) (which is derived from longus (“long”)).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /lon.ɡiˈtu.do/

Noun

longitudo (plural longitudi)

1. (geography) longitude

Related terms

• latitudo

Latin

Etymology

From longus (“far, long”) +‎ -tūdō. In the astronomical and geographical sense, a calque of Ancient Greek μῆκος (mêkos).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /lon.ɡiˈtuː.doː/, [ɫ̪ɔŋɡɪˈt̪uːd̪oː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /lon.d͡ʒiˈtu.do/, [lon̠ʲd͡ʒiˈt̪uːd̪o]

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

Declension

Third-declension noun.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	longitūdō	longitūdinēs
Genitive	longitūdinis	longitūdinum
Dative	longitūdinī	longitūdinibus
Accusative	longitūdinem	longitūdinēs
Ablative	longitūdine	longitūdinibus
Vocative	longitūdō	longitūdinēs

Synonyms

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

Related terms

Related terms

• longaevitās
• longaevus
• longanimis
• longanimitās
• longanimiter
• longē
• longiloquium
• longinquē
• longinquitās
• longinquō
• longinquus
• longipēs
• longīscō
• longiter
• longitia
• longiturnitās
• longiturnus
• longiusculē
• longiusculus
• longivīvāx
• longulē
• longulus
• longuriō
• longurius
• longus

Descendants

• → Catalan: longitud
• → English: longitude
• → Esperanto: longitudo
• → French: longitude
• → Friulian: longjitudin
• → Galician: lonxitude
• → Ido: longitudo
• → Italian: longitudine
• → Occitan: longitud
• → Piedmontese: longitùdin
• → Portuguese: longitude
• → Spanish: longitud

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 with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• longitudo in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
  • to extend in breadth, in length: in latitudinem, in longitudinem patere
    

Swahili

Ramani ya dunia inayoonyesha mistari ya longitudo (toka juu kuelekea chini) na latitudo (toka kushoto kuelekea kulia).

Etymology

Borrowed from English longitude.

Noun

longitudo (n class, plural longitudo)

1. (geography) longitude

   Coordinate term: latitudo