different between longitude vs meridians

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)

1. (geography) Angular distance measured west or east of the prime meridian.
2. (geography, astronomy) Any imaginary line perpendicular to the equator and part of a great circle passing through the North Pole and South Pole.
3. (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)

1. (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)

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.

Synonyms

• meridiano

Related terms

• longo

English

Noun

meridians

1. plural of meridian

Anagrams

• Mirandise, marinised

Catalan

Pronunciation

• (Balearic, Central) IPA^(key): /m?.?i.di?ans/
• (Valencian) IPA^(key): /me.?i.di?ans/
• Rhymes: -ans

Adjective

meridians

1. masculine plural of meridià

Noun

meridians

1. plural of meridià

Latin

Etymology

Present participle of mer?di?

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /me?ri?.di.ans/, [m???i?d?iä??s?]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /me?ri.di.ans/, [m???i?d?i?ns]

Participle

mer?di?ns (genitive mer?diantis); third-declension one-termination participle

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Declension

Third-declension participle.

¹When used purely as an adjective.