longitudo

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

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

longitudo (accusative singular longitudon, plural longitudoj, accusative plural longitudojn)

1. (geography) longitude (imaginary lines from the North Pole to the South Pole)

• latitudo

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

• IPA^(key): /lon.ɡiˈtu.do/

longitudo (plural longitudi)

1. (geography) longitude

• latitudo

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

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

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

Third-declension noun.

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

• “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, London: Macmillan and Co.
  • to extend in breadth, in length: in latitudinem, in longitudinem patere
    

Borrowed from English longitude.

longitudo (n class, plural longitudo)

1. (geography) longitude

   Coordinate term: latitudo