altitudo

Esperanto

Etymology

Derived from Latin altitūdō, from altus (“high, lofty”) + -tūdō.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /altiˈtudo/

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• Rhymes: -udo
• Syllabification: al‧ti‧tu‧do

Noun

altitudo (accusative singular altitudon, plural altitudoj, accusative plural altitudojn)

1. absolute height
2. (astronomy) distance measured angularly of a heavenly body

Derived terms

• altituda

Indonesian

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin altitūdō.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /altiˈtudo/
• Rhymes: -do, -o
• Hyphenation: al‧ti‧tu‧do

Noun

altitudo (plural altitudo-altitudo)

1. altitude:
   1. (physics) the absolute height of a location, usually measured from sea level
   2. (astronomy) the angular distance of a heavenly body above our Earth's horizon

Alternative forms

• altitud (Standard Malay)

Further reading

• “altitudo”, in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia [Great Dictionary of the Indonesian Language] (in Indonesian), Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016

Latin

Etymology

Etymology tree

Proto-Indo-European *h₂el-

Proto-Indo-European *-tós

Proto-Indo-European *h₂eltós

Proto-Italic *altos

Latin altus

Proto-Indo-European *-tu-

Proto-Indo-European *-d-

Proto-Indo-European *-Hō

Proto-Italic *-tūdō

Latin -tūdō

Latin altitūdō

From altus (“high, lofty”) + -tūdō.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [aɫ.tɪˈtuː.doː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [al.tiˈtuː.do]

Noun

altitūdō f (genitive altitūdinis); third declension

1. height (distance from bottom to top)
   • c. 177 CE, Aulus Gellius, Noctes Atticae 1.20.8:

     Eam [līneam] M. [Mārcus] Varrō ita dēfīnit: "Līnea est," inquit, "longitūdō quaedam sine lātitūdine et altitūdine."

     Marcus Varro defines it [a line] in this way: "A line is," he says, "a certain length without width and height."

2. depth
   • c. 52 BCE, Julius Caesar, Commentarii de bello Gallico 2.18:

     Flūminis erat altitūdō pedum circiter trium.

     The depth of the river was about three feet.

3. (figuratively) spiritual or emotional depth

Declension

Third-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	altitūdō	altitūdinēs
genitive	altitūdinis	altitūdinum
dative	altitūdinī	altitūdinibus
accusative	altitūdinem	altitūdinēs
ablative	altitūdine	altitūdinibus
vocative	altitūdō	altitūdinēs

Related terms

• altō
• altus

Descendants

• Catalan: altitud
• English: altitude
• Esperanto: altitudo
• French: altitude
• Italian: altitudine
• Portuguese: altitude
• Romanian: altitudine
• Spanish: altitud

References

• “altitudo”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “altitudo”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• "altitudo", in Charles du Fresne du Cange, Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• “altitudo”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894), Latin Phrase-Book‎^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
  • the exalted strain of the speech: elatio atque altitudo orationis