longitrorsus

Latin

Alternative forms

longitrōsus

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

(Classical) IPA^(key): /lon.ɡiˈtror.sus/, [ɫ̪ɔŋɡɪˈt̪rɔrs̠ʊs̠]

(Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /lon.d͡ʒiˈtror.sus/, [lon̠ʲd͡ʒiˈt̪rɔrsus]

Adverb

longitrorsus (not comparable)

in length, lengthwise, lengthways
- 8th century CE, Paulus Diaconus, Karl Otfried Müller, editor, Excerpta ex libris Pompeii Festi De significatione verborum, page 120:
  
  L o n g i t r o r s u s sic dicitur, sicut dextrorsus, sinistrorsus.
  (please add an English translation of this quote)

References

“longĭtrorsus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
longĭtrorsus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette, page 921/1
“longitrōsus” on page 1,042/1 of the Oxford Latin Dictionary (1st ed., 1968–82)

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