magnitudo

See also: magnitúdó

Indonesian

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin magnitūdō.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /makniˈtudo/
• Rhymes: -do, -o
• Hyphenation: mag‧ni‧tu‧do

Noun

magnitudo (first-person possessive magnitudoku, second-person possessive magnitudomu, third-person possessive magnitudonya)

1. magnitude
   1. (seismology) A measure of the energy released by an earthquake (e.g. on the Richter scale).
   2. (astronomy) A logarithmic scale of brightness defined so that a difference of 5 magnitudes is a factor of 100.
      1. A ratio of intensity expressed as a logarithm.

Alternative forms

• magnitud (Standard Malay)

Derived terms

• bermagnitudo

 

Further reading

• “magnitudo” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016.

Italian

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from Latin magnitūdinem. Doublet of magnitudine.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /maɲ.ɲiˈtu.do/
• Rhymes: -udo
• Hyphenation: ma‧gni‧tù‧do

Noun

magnitudo f (invariable)

1. (seismology) magnitude (energy released by an earthquake)

Further reading

• magnitudo in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

Latin

Etymology

From magnus (“big, great”) +‎ -tūdō.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /maɡ.niˈtuː.doː/, [mäŋnɪˈt̪uːd̪oː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /maɲ.ɲiˈtu.do/, [mäɲːiˈt̪uːd̪o]

Noun

magnitūdō f (genitive magnitūdinis); third declension

1. greatness, size, bulk, magnitude; vastness, extent.
2. a great number, amount or quantity, abundance.

   Synonyms: cōpia, abundantia, affluentia, ūbertās, fertilitās, ūber

   Antonyms: dēficientia, cāritās, inopia

Declension

Third-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	magnitūdō	magnitūdinēs
genitive	magnitūdinis	magnitūdinum
dative	magnitūdinī	magnitūdinibus
accusative	magnitūdinem	magnitūdinēs
ablative	magnitūdine	magnitūdinibus
vocative	magnitūdō	magnitūdinēs

Descendants

• → Catalan: magnitud
• → English: magnitude
• → French: magnitude
• → Italian: magnitudine, magnitudo
• → Portuguese: magnitude
• → Romanian: magnitudine
• → Russian: магнитуда (magnituda)
• → Spanish: magnitud

References

• “magnitudo”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “magnitudo”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• magnitudo 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)
• magnitudo in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
  • to differ qualitatively not quantitatively: genere, non numero or magnitudine differre