Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

longitudinous

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: lon-gi-tudi-nous
IPA

15

Scrabble Score

13

Letters

4

Syllables

9

Unique Chars

Meaning

adj

Having longitude.

Etymology

From Latin longitūdin- + -ous, from oblique stem of Latin longitūdō, from longus + -tūdō. By surface analysis, longitude + -ous.

Origin

Source language: Latin

Word Breakdown

Root: longitūdō
Suffix: -ous, longus

Inflected Forms

more longitudinous (comparative) most longitudinous (superlative)

Questions

What does longitudinous mean?: Having longitude.
Where does longitudinous come from?: It is traced to Latin.

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