Latitude - Wiktionary

English

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Etymology

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Borrowed into Middle English from Old French latitude, from Latin lātitūdō (“breadth, width, latitude”), from lātus (“broad, wide”), from older stlātus. Possibly related with lateral, though this is uncertain.

Pronunciation

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• (UK) IPA(key): /ˈlæt.ɪ.tjuːd/
• (US) IPA(key): /ˈlæt.ɪ.tud/, /ˈlæt.ə.tjud/

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Noun

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latitude (countable and uncountable, plural latitudes)

1. (geography, astronomy, countable) The angular distance north or south from a planet's equator, measured along the meridian of that particular point. Coordinate term: longitude
   • 1880, Arthur Herbert Church, Food: Some Account of Its Sources, Constituents and Uses‎[1], London: Chapman and Hall, page 72:The oat is hardier than wheat, and ripens in higher latitudes.
   • 2011, Ralph D. Sawyer, Ancient Chinese Warfare‎[2], Basic Books, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 137:Far from the center of Shang civilization, Wu-ch'eng is located well south of the Yangtze at approximately the same latitude as Ch'ang-sha in the west and Wen-chou in the east.
2. (geography) An imaginary line (in the form of a circumference) around a planet running parallel to the planet's equator. Synonym: parallel
3. (figurative) The relative freedom from restrictions; scope to do something. His parents gave him a great deal of latitude.
   • 1834, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter XXIV, in Francesca Carrara. […], volume III, London: Richard Bentley, […], (successor to Henry Colburn), →OCLC, page 208:"Love!" ejaculated the Comtesse; "And so throw away the chances of a life upon a month of honey!—I say a month, which is allowing a latitude tenderness never took...
4. (astronomy) The angular distance of a heavenly body from the ecliptic.
5. (photography) The extent to which a light-sensitive material can be over- or underexposed and still achieve an acceptable result.
6. Extent or scope; e.g. breadth, width or amplitude.

Usage notes

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• When used to refer to distances or imaginary lines around a planet, latitude is relative to the Earth's Equator unless another planet is specified.

Derived terms

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• ascending latitude
• circle of latitude
• colatitude
• geolatitude
• heliolatitude
• high latitude, high-latitude
• horse latitudes
• interlatitudinal
• isolatitude
• lat/lon
• latitude by account
• latitudinal
• low latitude, low-latitude
• middle latitude
• mid-latitude
• midlatitude
• palaeolatitude
• paleolatitude

Translations

[edit] angular distance north or south from the equator

Arabic: دَائِرَة عَرْض f (dāʔira(t) ʕarḍ), خَطّ عَرْض m (ḵaṭṭ ʕarḍ) Bashkir: киңлек (kiñlek) Belarusian: шырата́ f (šyratá) Bulgarian: ширина (bg) f (širina) Catalan: latitud (ca) f Chinese: Mandarin: 緯度 / 纬度 (zh) (wěidù) Czech: šířka (cs) f Danish: breddegrad (da) c Dutch: breedtegraad (nl) m Esperanto: latitudo Faroese: breiddarstig n Finnish: leveysaste (fi), leveys (fi) French: latitude (fr) f Georgian: განედი (ganedi) German: Breite (de) f, geographische Breite f, Breitengrad (de) m Greek: πλάτος (el) n (plátos) Ancient: κλίμα n (klíma) Gujarati: અક્ષાંશ (gu) (akṣā̃ś) Hindi: अक्षांश (hi) m (akṣāñś) Hungarian: szélesség (hu) Icelandic: breiddargráða (is) f Ido: latitudo (io) Italian: latitudine (it) f Japanese: 緯度 (ja) (いど, ido), ラチチュード (rachichūdo) Korean: 위도 (ko) (wido) Latin: lātitūdō f Latvian: platums m Lithuanian: platuma f Macedonian: ши́рина f (šírina), геогра́фска ши́рина f (geográfska šírina) Malay: latitud, garisan lintang Manx: dowan-lheead Norwegian: Bokmål: breddegrad (no) m, polhøyde m or f Nynorsk: breiddegrad (nn) m or f, polhøgde f Plautdietsch: Breed f Polish: szerokość (pl) f, szerokość geograficzna (pl) f Portuguese: latitude (pt) f Romanian: latitudine (ro) f Russian: широта́ (ru) f (širotá) Scottish Gaelic: domhan-leud m Serbo-Croatian: Cyrillic: ширина f Roman: širina (sh) f Slovak: zemepisná šírka f Slovene: širina (sl) f Spanish: latitud (es) f Swahili: latitudo (sw) Swedish: latitud (sv) c, breddgrad (sv) c Tagalog: antaslayog Ukrainian: широта́ f (šyrotá) Vietnamese: vĩ độ (vi) Welsh: lledred m

imaginary line parallel to the equator

Bashkir: киңлек (kiñlek) Bulgarian: паралел (bg) m (paralel) Catalan: latitud (ca) f Chinese: Mandarin: 緯綫 / 纬线 (zh) (wěixiàn), 緯圈 / 纬圈 (zh) (wěiquān) Esperanto: latitudo Finnish: leveyspiiri (fi) French: latitude (fr) f, parallèle (fr) m or f Georgian: განედი (ganedi), პარალელი (ṗaraleli) German: Breite (de) f, Breitenkreis m, Breitengrad (de) m Greek: γεωγραφικό πλάτος (el) n (geografikó plátos) Gujarati: અક્ષાંશ (gu) (akṣā̃ś) Hebrew: קַו רֹחַב (he) m (kav rokhav) Hindi: अक्षांश (hi) m (akṣāñś) Ido: latitudo (io) Italian: latitudine (it) f Japanese: 緯線 (ja) (いせん, isen) Korean: 위선 (ko) (wiseon) Latin: lātitūdō f Macedonian: напо́редник m (napórednik), парале́ла f (paraléla) Malay: garis lintang Manx: dowan-lheead Maori: ahopae Moore: bĩin-paadse Norwegian: Bokmål: breddegrad (no) m Nynorsk: breiddegrad (nn) m or f Polish: równoleżnik (pl) m Portuguese: latitude (pt) f Romanian: latitudine (ro) f Russian: паралле́ль (ru) f (parallélʹ), широта́ (ru) f (širotá) Scottish Gaelic: domhan-leud m Slovak: rovnobežka f Spanish: latitud (es) f Swedish: latitud (sv) c Tagalog: antaslayog Telugu: అక్షాంశము (te) (akṣāṁśamu) Vietnamese: vĩ tuyến (vi) Welsh: lledred m

freedom from restrictions

Bashkir: иркенлек (irkenlek) Danish: råderum n Finnish: vapaus (fi), toimintavapaus French: marge (fr) f German: Spielraum (de) m Greek: χαλαρότητα (el) f (chalarótita) Hungarian: mozgástér (hu) Norwegian: Bokmål: handlingsrom (no) n, spillerom n Nynorsk: handlingsrom n, spelerom n Polish: swoboda (pl) f Romanian: latitudine (ro) f Russian: свобо́да (ru) f (svobóda), самостоя́тельность (ru) f (samostojátelʹnostʹ), во́ля (ru) f (vólja) Serbo-Croatian: sloboda (sh) f Slovak: voľnosť f Spanish: holgura (es) f Swedish: latitud (sv) c, handlingsfrihet (sv) c, spelrum (sv) n Turkish: serbestlik (tr) Welsh: rhyddid (cy) m, penrhyddid m, rhwydd hynt f

angular distance of a heavenly body from the ecliptic

Bashkir: киңлек (kiñlek) Finnish: deklinaatio (fi) Greek: πλάτος (el) n (plátos) Ancient: πλάτος n (plátos) Norwegian: latitude (no) m Polish: szerokość (pl) f, szerokość ekliptyczna f Russian: широта́ (ru) f (širotá) Spanish: latitud (es) f Welsh: lledred m

extent to which a light-sensitive material can be over- or underexposed

Finnish: valotusvara Italian: latitudine di posa f Russian: широта́ (ru) f (širotá)

extent or scope

Bulgarian: обхват (bg) m (obhvat) Finnish: laajuus (fi) Latin: lātitūdō f Scottish Gaelic: leud m Serbo-Croatian: opseg (sh) m Swedish: latitud (sv) c

See also

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• northing
• zonal

Anagrams

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• altitude

French

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Etymology

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From Latin lātitūdō (“breadth, width, latitude”), from lātus (“broad, wide”), from older stlātus.

Pronunciation

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• IPA(key): /la.ti.tyd/

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Noun

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latitude f (plural latitudes)

1. expansion, breadth Ce principe peut avoir une grande latitude.(please add an English translation of this usage example) Donner trop de latitude à une proposition, à l’application d’un principe.(please add an English translation of this usage example) Laisser beaucoup de latitude aux agents chargés d’une mission.(please add an English translation of this usage example) Avoir toute latitude pour: avoir toute liberté pour.(please add an English translation of this usage example)
2. (geography) the distance from a place to the equator measured in degrees on the meridian; parallel viewing
   • 1921, H.G. Wells, translated by Henry-D. Davray and B. Kozakiewicz, La Guerre dans les Airs, Mercure de France, page 174:C’est ici que ça se passe, 30°50’ de latitude nord, 30°50’ de longitude ouest… à une journée de distance pour nous, et ils filent sud-sud-ouest à toute vapeur. À ce train-là nous ne verrons rien, […].(please add an English translation of this quotation)
   • 1928, Jean-Baptiste Charcot, Dans la mer du Groenland:Le Scoresby Sund est le plus vaste fjord du monde entier. Il est découpé dans la côte Orientale du Groenland entre 70° et 72° de latitude Nord et 22° et 30° de longitude Ouest de Greenwich.(please add an English translation of this quotation)
   • 1929, Alain Gerbault, “À la poursuite du soleil”, in De New-York à Tahiti, volume 1:[…] le 12 mars, par 20 degrés de latitude Nord, je rencontrai les vents alizés, je pouvais compter dorénavant sur un plus faible et agréable navigation dans les mers tropicales.(please add an English translation of this quotation)
3. (by extension) Different areas under a given temperature due to their greater or lesser distance from the equator À la différence des animaux, l’homme peut vivre sous les latitudes les plus opposées.
4. (astronomy) the angle with a plane parallel to the ecliptic, the straight line that passes through a heavenly body and a particular centre on this plane Latitude australe ou boréale.(please add an English translation of this usage example) Latitude héliocentrique, géocentrique, etc.(please add an English translation of this usage example) Latitude de Sirius.(please add an English translation of this usage example)
5. freedom

Antonyms

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• longitude

References

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• All or part of this article is from the Dictionary of the French Academy, Eighth Edition, 1932-1935, but it may have been modified since.

Further reading

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

Old French

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Etymology

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From Latin lātitūdō (“breadth, width, latitude”).

Noun

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latitude oblique singular, f (oblique plural latitudes, nominative singular latitude, nominative plural latitudes)

1. breadth

Descendants

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• → Middle English: latitude
• French: latitude

Portuguese

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Pronunciation

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• (Brazil) IPA(key): /la.t͡ʃiˈtu.d͡ʒi/

• (Brazil) IPA(key): /la.t͡ʃiˈtu.d͡ʒi/
  • (Southern Brazil) IPA(key): /la.t͡ʃiˈtu.de/

• (Portugal) IPA(key): /lɐ.tiˈtu.dɨ/ [lɐ.tiˈtu.ðɨ]

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• Hyphenation: la‧ti‧tu‧de

Noun

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latitude f (plural latitudes)

1. (geography, astronomy) latitude (angular distance north or south from the equator)
2. (geography) latitude (imaginary line parallel to the equator)

Further reading

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• “latitude”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2025