longitude

From Middle English, borrowed from Old French longitude, from Latin longitūdō (“length, a measured length”), from longus (“long”).

• (Received Pronunciation, General Australian, New Zealand)
  • (yod-coalescence) IPA^(key): /ˈlɒnd͡ʒɪtʃuːd/
  • (non-yod-coalescence) IPA^(key): /ˈlɒnɡɪtjuːd/
  • (more traditional) IPA^(key): /ˈlɒnd͡ʒɪtjuːd/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈlɑnd͡ʒəˌtud/, /ˈlɔnd͡ʒəˌtud/

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longitude (countable and uncountable, plural longitudes)

1. (geography) Angular distance measured west or east of the prime meridian.

   Coordinate term: latitude

   • 2012 March, William E. Carter, Merri Sue Carter, “The British Longitude Act Reconsidered”, in American Scientist‎^[1], volume 100, number 2, page 87:

     But was it responsible governance to pass the Longitude Act without other efforts to protect British seamen? Or might it have been subterfuge—a disingenuous attempt to shift attention away from the realities of their life at sea.

2. (geography, astronomy) Any imaginary line perpendicular to the equator and part of a great circle passing through the North Pole and South Pole.

   Synonym: meridian

3. (archaic) Length.
   • 1831, Francis Griffin, “Griffin's Remains”, in The American Quarterly Review, volume 10, page 504:

     His shoulders are remarkably sloping, giving an appearance of great longitude to his neck.

   • 1958 April, “Diesel Railbus for British Railways”, in Railway Magazine, page 276:

     The floor consists of a corrugated steel section attached by welding to the body longitudes and cross members.

• easting
• equator
• prime meridian

Borrowed from Latin longitūdō (“length, a measured length”), from longus (“long”).

• IPA^(key): /lɔ̃.ʒi.tyd/

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longitude f (plural longitudes)

1. (geography, astronomy) longitude

• long

• “longitude”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012

Learned borrowing from Latin longitūdō (“length, a measured length”).

• Rhymes: (Brazil) -ud͡ʒi, (Portugal) -udɨ
• Hyphenation: lon‧gi‧tu‧de

longitude f (plural longitudes)

1. (geography) angular distance measured west or east of the Greenwich Meridian
2. (geography, astronomy) an imaginary line perpendicular to the equator, passing through the North Pole and South Pole

• meridiano

• longo

• “longitude”, in Dicionário Aulete Digital (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2026
• “longitude”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2026