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 (plural magnitudo-magnitudo)
- magnitude
- (seismology) a measure of the energy released by an earthquake (e.g. on the Richter scale)
- (astronomy) a logarithmic scale of brightness defined so that a difference of 5 magnitudes is a factor of 100
- 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)
- (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): [maŋ.nɪˈtuː.doː]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [maɲ.ɲiˈt̪uː.d̪o]
Noun
magnitūdō f (genitive magnitūdinis); third declension
- greatness, size, bulk, magnitude; vastness, extent.
- 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
- to differ qualitatively not quantitatively: genere, non numero or magnitudine differre