altitudo

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

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• IPA^(key): [altiˈtudo]
• Rhymes: -udo
• Hyphenation: al‧ti‧tu‧do

altitudo (uncountable, accusative altitudon)

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

• altituda

Learned borrowing from Latin altitūdō.

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

altitudo (first-person possessive altitudoku, second-person possessive altitudomu, third-person possessive altitudonya)

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.

• altitud (Standard Malay)

• “altitudo” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Language Development and Fostering Agency — Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic Indonesia, 2016.

From altus (“high, lofty”) +‎ -tūdō.

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /al.tiˈtuː.doː/, [äɫ̪t̪ɪˈt̪uːd̪oː]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /al.tiˈtu.do/, [äl̪t̪iˈt̪uːd̪o]

altitūdō f (genitive altitūdinis); third declension

1. height (distance from bottom to top)
2. depth
3. (figuratively) spiritual or emotional depth

Third-declension noun.

• altō
• altus

• “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’s 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, London: Macmillan and Co.
  • the exalted strain of the speech: elatio atque altitudo orationis