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+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=derivation|attested=Cato|origins=itc-pro *slāto-}}
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+ ==Pronunciation==
+ * IPA (Classical): [ɫaː.tɪˈtuː.doː]^(Wiktionary)
+ * IPA (Ecclesiastical): [la.tiˈtuː.do]^(Wiktionary)
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+ ==Forms==
+ '''lātitūdō''' ''f'' (genitive lātitūdinis); third declension^(Wiktionary)
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+ ==Etymology==
+ It is [[af|la|lātus|-tūdō|t1=broad, wide]].^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary) ''Lātus'' is [[m|itc-pro|*slāto-]]; its further origin is uncertain.^(de Vaan 2008) In the geographical sense it is a calque of [[grc|κλίμα|tr=klíma]].^(Wiktionary)
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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==
+ Köbler's first source is Cato (234–149 BC).^(Köbler 2010) Cato gives the width of a pressing room.^(OLD 2012)
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+ ==Semantic evolution==
+ It meant breadth or width, as Caesar's width of a ditch and camp stretching more than eight miles in breadth, and Cicero's “immensity of breadths, lengths, heights”.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879) It meant broadness, as the broad shoulders of oxen in Cicero, and extent or size.^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)
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+ Cicero uses ''verborum latitudo'' of a broad, drawling pronunciation, and it also meant fullness of style.^(OLD 2012)^(Gaffiot 2016) As an astronomical and geographical term it meant latitude.^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary) English ''latitude'' was borrowed in the late 14th century, first meaning “breadth”.^(Etymonline)
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+ ==Timeline==
+ * 234–149 BC – Cato uses it of a room's width.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)
+ * c. 50 BC – Caesar uses it of the width of a ditch.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)
+ * 81–43 BC – Cicero uses it of a broad pronunciation.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)
+ * late 14th century – English ''latitude'' is borrowed.^(Etymonline)
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+ ==Meanings==
+ ===Noun===
+ # [[m|en|Breadth]], width.^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)
+ # Broadness; extent, size.^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)
+ # A broad pronunciation; fullness of style.^(OLD 2012)^(Gaffiot 2016)
+ # ''(geography, astronomy)'' [[m|en|Latitude]].^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)
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+ ==Related words==
+ * [[lātipēs]]
+ * [[lātitia]]
+ * [[lātus]]
+ * [[en|latitude]]
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+ ==References==
+ {{reflist}}