Derived fromLatin altitūdō , fromaltus ( “ high, lofty ” ) +-tūdō .
IPA (key ) : /altiˈtudo/ Rhymes:-udo Hyphenation: al‧ti‧tu‧do altitudo (uncountable ,accusative altitudon )
absolute height ( astronomy ) distance measuredangularly of aheavenly body Learned borrowing fromLatin altitūdō .
IPA (key ) : /altiˈtudo/ Rhymes:-do ,-o Hyphenation:al‧ti‧tu‧do altitudo (plural altitudo -altitudo )
altitude :( physics ) the absolute height of a location, usually measured from sea level( astronomy ) the angular distance of a heavenly body above our Earth's horizonFromaltus ( “ high, lofty ” ) +-tūdō .
altitūdō f (genitive altitūdinis ) ;third declension
height (distance from bottom to top)c. 177CE ,
Aulus Gellius ,
Noctes Atticae 1.20.8 :
Eam [līneam] M. [Mārcus] Varrō ita dēfīnit: "Līnea est," inquit, "longitūdō quaedam sine lātitūdine etaltitūdine ." Marcus Varro defines it [a line] in this way: "A line is," he says, "a certain length without width andheight ." depth ( figuratively ) spiritual oremotional depthThird-declension noun.
“altitudo ”, inCharlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879 ),A Latin Dictionary , Oxford: Clarendon Press “altitudo ”, inCharlton T. Lewis (1891 ),An Elementary Latin Dictionary , New York: Harper & Brothers "altitudo ", in Charles du Fresne du Cange’sGlossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887) “altitudo ”, inGaffiot, 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