longitrorsus

Latin

Alternative forms

Etymology

From longus (“long”) + *-trorsus, probably extracted from words such as retrorsus or introrsus.

Pronunciation

Adverb

longitrorsus (not comparable)

  1. 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.
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