latitudo

• IPA^(key): /latiˈtudo/

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• Rhymes: -udo
• Hyphenation: la‧ti‧tu‧do

latitudo (accusative singular latitudon, plural latitudoj, accusative plural latitudojn)

1. (geography) latitude

• longitudo

latitudo (plural latitudi)

1. (geography) latitude

• longitudo

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

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ɫaː.tɪˈtuː.doː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [la.t̪iˈt̪uː.d̪o]

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

Third-declension noun.

• (breadth): amplitūdō
• (richness of expression): amplitūdō

• lātipēs
• lātitia
• lātus

• “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
    

Borrowed from English latitude.

latitudo class IX (plural latitudo class X)

1. (geography) latitude

   Coordinate term: longitudo