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

Ido

Noun

latitudo (plural latitudi)

1. (geography) latitude

Related terms

• longitudo

Latin

Etymology

From lātus (“wide”) +‎ -tūdō. In the astronomical and geographical sense, a calque of Ancient Greek κλίμα (klíma).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /laː.tiˈtuː.doː/, [ɫ̪äːt̪ɪˈt̪uːd̪oː]
• (modern Italianate 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.

	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^[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 latitude.

Noun

latitudo class IX (plural latitudo class X)

1. (geography) latitude

   Coordinate term: longitudo