longitrorsus
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[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From longus (“long”) + *-trorsus, probably extracted from words such as retrorsus or introrsus.
Pronunciation
[edit]- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /lon.ɡiˈtror.sus/, [ɫ̪ɔŋɡɪˈt̪rɔrs̠ʊs̠]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /lon.d͡ʒiˈtror.sus/, [lon̠ʲd͡ʒiˈt̪rɔrsus]
Adverb
[edit]longitrorsus (not comparable)
- in length, lengthwise, lengthways
- 1839 [8th century CE], Paulus Diaconus, edited by Karl Otfried Müller, Excerpta ex libris Pompeii Festi De significatione verborum, page 120, line 7:
- L o n g i t r o r s u s sic dicitur, sicut dextrorsus, sinistrorsus.
- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
References
[edit]- “longĭtrorsus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- longĭtrorsus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette, page 921/1.
- “longitrōsus” on page 1,042/1 of the Oxford Latin Dictionary (1st ed., 1968–82)