different between longitude vs longtitude
longitude
English
Etymology
From Middle English, borrowed from Old French longitude, from Latin longit?d? (“length, a measured length”), from longus (“long”).
Pronunciation
- (UK, General Australian, General New Zealand) IPA(key): /?l?n??tju?d/, /?l?n(d)??tju?d/ (More traditional) IPA(key): /-t?u?d/ (Yod Coalescence)
- (US) IPA(key): /?l?nd???tud/
Noun
longitude (countable and uncountable, plural longitudes)
- (geography) Angular distance measured west or east of the prime meridian.
- (geography, astronomy) Any imaginary line perpendicular to the equator and part of a great circle passing through the North Pole and South Pole.
- (archaic) Length.
Synonyms
- (half of a great circle): meridian
Derived terms
- longitudinal
Translations
See also
- latitude
- equator
- prime meridian
French
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin longit?d? (“length, a measured length”), from longus (“long”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /l??.?i.tyd/
Noun
longitude f (plural longitudes)
- (geography, astronomy) longitude
Related terms
- long
Further reading
- “longitude” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
Portuguese
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin longit?d? (“length, a measured length”).
Pronunciation
- (Portugal) IPA(key): /lõ.?i.?tu.ð?/
- Hyphenation: lon?gi?tu?de
- Rhymes: -ud?i
Noun
longitude f (plural longitudes)
- (geography) Angular distance measured west or east of the Greenwich Meridian.
- (geography, astronomy) An imaginary line perpendicular to the equator, passing through the North Pole and South Pole.
Synonyms
- meridiano
Related terms
- longo
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longtitude
English
Noun
longtitude (countable and uncountable, plural longtitudes)
- Obsolete form of longitude.
longtitude From the web:
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- what longitude
- what longitude and latitude am i at
- what longitude is the prime meridian
- what longitude is the international date line
- what longitude is the equator
- what longitude line is at 0 degrees
- what longitude is the dmz located in korea
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