altitudo

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Esperanto

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Etymology

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Derived from Latin altitūdō, from altus (high, lofty) + -tūdō.

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): [altiˈtudo]
  • Rhymes: -udo
  • Hyphenation: al‧ti‧tu‧do

Noun

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altitudo (uncountable, accusative altitudon)

  1. absolute height
  2. (astronomy) distance measured angularly of a heavenly body

Derived terms

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Indonesian

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Etymology

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Learned borrowing from Latin altitūdō.

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /altiˈtudo/
  • Rhymes: -do, -o
  • Hyphenation: al‧ti‧tu‧do

Noun

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altitudo (first-person possessive altitudoku, second-person possessive altitudomu, third-person possessive altitudonya)

  1. altitude:
    1. (physics) the absolute height of a location, usually measured from sea level.
    2. (astronomy) the angular distance of a heavenly body above our Earth's horizon.

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Further reading

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Latin

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Etymology

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From altus (high, lofty) +‎ -tūdō.

Pronunciation

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Noun

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altitūdō f (genitive altitūdinis); third declension

  1. height (distance from bottom to top)
    • c. 177 CE, Aulus Gellius, Noctes Atticae 1.20.8:
      Eam [līneam] M. [Mārcus] Varrō ita dēfīnit: "Līnea est," inquit, "longitūdō quaedam sine lātitūdine et altitūdine."
      Marcus Varro defines it [a line] in this way: "A line is," he says, "a certain length without width and height."
  2. depth
  3. (figuratively) spiritual or emotional depth

Declension

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Third-declension noun.

Case Singular Plural
Nominative altitūdō altitūdinēs
Genitive altitūdinis altitūdinum
Dative altitūdinī altitūdinibus
Accusative altitūdinem altitūdinēs
Ablative altitūdine altitūdinibus
Vocative altitūdō altitūdinēs
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Descendants

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References

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  • 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 with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
  • altitudo in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
  • Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
    • the exalted strain of the speech: elatio atque altitudo orationis