different between longitude vs transverse

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

Etymology

Late Middle English, borrowed from Latin tr?nsversus (“turned across; going or lying across or crosswise”). Doublet of transversal and transvert.

Pronunciation

• (adjective):
  • (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /t?anz?v??s/, /t???nz?v??s/, /t?ans?v??s/, /t???ns?v??s/
  • (General American) IPA^(key): /t?æns?v?s/, /t?ænz?v?s/, /?t?æns?v?s/, /?t?ænz?v?s/
• (noun):
  • (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?t?anz.v??s/, /?t???nz.v??s/, /?t?ans.v??s/, /?t???ns.v??s/
  • (General American) IPA^(key): /?t?æns?v?s/, /?t?ænz?v?s/
• (verb):
  • (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /t?anz?v??s/, /t???nz?v??s/, /t?ans?v??s/, /t???ns?v??s/
  • (General American) IPA^(key): /t?æns?v?s/, /t?ænz?v?s/
• Rhymes: -??(?)s

Adjective

transverse (not comparable)

1. Situated or lying across; side to side, relative to some defined "forward" direction; perpendicular or slanted relative to the "forward" direction; identified with movement across areas.

   Antonym: longitudinal

2. (anatomy) Made at right angles to the long axis of the body.
3. (geometry) (of an intersection) Not tangent, so that a nondegenerate angle is formed between the two things intersecting.
4. (obsolete) Not in direct line of descent; collateral.

Derived terms

Related terms

• transversal
• transversion

Translations

Noun

transverse (plural transverses)

1. Anything that is transverse or athwart.
2. (geometry) The longer, or transverse, axis of an ellipse.

Translations

Verb

transverse (third-person singular simple present transverses, present participle transversing, simple past and past participle transversed) (transitive)

1. To lie or run across; to cross.
2. To traverse or thwart.
3. To overturn.
4. To alter or transform.
5. (obsolete) To change from prose into verse, or from verse into prose.

References

• “transverse”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–present.
• “transverse”, in Merriam–Webster Online Dictionary, (Please provide a date or year).

Latin

Pronunciation

• tr?nsvers?: (Classical) IPA^(key): /trans?u?er.se?/, [t??ä??s??u??rs?e?]
• tr?nsvers?: (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /trans?ver.se/, [t???nz?v?rs?]
• tr?nsverse: (Classical) IPA^(key): /trans?u?er.se/, [t??ä??s??u??rs??]
• tr?nsverse: (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /trans?ver.se/, [t???nz?v?rs?]

Etymology 1

From tr?nsversus (“turned across”) +? -? (“-ly”, adverbial suffix).

Alternative forms

• tr?nsvors?

Adverb

tr?nsvers? (comparative tr?nsversius, superlative tr?nsversissim?)

1. Crosswise, transversely, obliquely.

   Synonym: tr?nsversim

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the main entry.

Participle

tr?nsverse

1. vocative masculine singular of tr?nsversus

References

• transverse in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • transverto in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• transverse in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette