latitude

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• Received-Pronunciation: /ˈlætɪtjuːd/
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• Received-Pronunciation: /ˈlætɪtʃuːd/
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• British, Southern, Standard: /ˈlatɪtʃʉwd/
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• US: /ˈlætɪtud/
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• US: /ˈlætətjud/
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• Scotland: /ˈlatɪtjʉd/
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• Scotland: /ˈlatɪtʃʉd/
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• rhymes with -ætɪtjuːd
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• CMU ARPABET: L AE1 T AH0 T UW2 D Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
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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.

157 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Arabic: دَائِرَة عَرْض — angular distance north or south from the equator
• Arabic: خَطّ عَرْض (ḵaṭṭ ʕarḍ) — angular distance north or south from the equator
• Bashkir: киңлек (kiñlek) — angular distance north or south from the equator
• Belarusian: шырата́ (šyratá) — angular distance north or south from the equator
• Bulgarian: ширина (širina) — angular distance north or south from the equator
• Catalan: latitud — angular distance north or south from the equator
• Chinese Mandarin: 緯度 /纬度 (wěidù) — angular distance north or south from the equator
• Czech: šířka — angular distance north or south from the equator
• Danish: breddegrad — angular distance north or south from the equator
• Dutch: breedtegraad — angular distance north or south from the equator
• Esperanto: latitudo — angular distance north or south from the equator
• Faroese: breiddarstig — angular distance north or south from the equator
• Finnish: leveysaste — angular distance north or south from the equator
• Finnish: leveys — angular distance north or south from the equator
• French: latitude — angular distance north or south from the equator
• Galician: latitude — angular distance north or south from the equator
• Georgian: განედი (ganedi) — angular distance north or south from the equator
• German: Breite — angular distance north or south from the equator
• German: geographische Breite — angular distance north or south from the equator
• German: Breitengrad — angular distance north or south from the equator
• Greek: πλάτος (plátos) — angular distance north or south from the equator
• Ancient Greek: κλίμα (klíma) — angular distance north or south from the equator
• Gujarati: અક્ષાંશ (akṣā̃ś) — angular distance north or south from the equator
• Hindi: अक्षांश (akṣāñś) — angular distance north or south from the equator
• Hungarian: szélesség — angular distance north or south from the equator
• Icelandic: breiddargráða — angular distance north or south from the equator
• Ido: latitudo — angular distance north or south from the equator
• Italian: latitudine — angular distance north or south from the equator
• Japanese: 緯度 (ido) — angular distance north or south from the equator
• Japanese: ラチチュード (rachichūdo) — angular distance north or south from the equator
• Korean: 위도 (wido) — angular distance north or south from the equator
• Latin: lātitūdō — angular distance north or south from the equator
• Latvian: platums — angular distance north or south from the equator
• Lithuanian: platuma — angular distance north or south from the equator
• Macedonian: ши́рина (šírina) — angular distance north or south from the equator
• Macedonian: геогра́фска ши́рина (geográfska šírina) — angular distance north or south from the equator
• Malay: latitud — angular distance north or south from the equator
• Malay: garisan lintang — angular distance north or south from the equator
• Manx: dowan-lheead — angular distance north or south from the equator
• Norwegian Bokmål: breddegrad — angular distance north or south from the equator
• Norwegian Bokmål: polhøyde — angular distance north or south from the equator
• Norwegian Nynorsk: breiddegrad — angular distance north or south from the equator
• Norwegian Nynorsk: polhøgde — angular distance north or south from the equator
• Plautdietsch: Breed — angular distance north or south from the equator
• Polish: szerokość — angular distance north or south from the equator
• Polish: szerokość geograficzna — angular distance north or south from the equator
• Portuguese: latitude — angular distance north or south from the equator
• Romanian: latitudine — angular distance north or south from the equator
• Russian: широта́ (širotá) — angular distance north or south from the equator
• Scottish Gaelic: domhan-leud — angular distance north or south from the equator
• Serbo-Croatian: ширина — angular distance north or south from the equator
• Serbo-Croatian: širina — angular distance north or south from the equator
• Slovak: zemepisná šírka — angular distance north or south from the equator
• Slovene: širina — angular distance north or south from the equator
• Spanish: latitud — angular distance north or south from the equator
• Swahili: latitudo — angular distance north or south from the equator
• Swedish: latitud — angular distance north or south from the equator
• Swedish: breddgrad — angular distance north or south from the equator
• Tagalog: antaslayog — angular distance north or south from the equator
• Turkish: enlem — angular distance north or south from the equator
• Ukrainian: широта́ (šyrotá) — angular distance north or south from the equator
• Vietnamese: vĩ độ — angular distance north or south from the equator
• Welsh: lledred — angular distance north or south from the equator
• Bashkir: киңлек (kiñlek) — imaginary line parallel to the equator
• Bulgarian: паралел (paralel) — imaginary line parallel to the equator
• Catalan: latitud — imaginary line parallel to the equator
• Chinese Mandarin: 緯綫 /纬线 (wěixiàn) — imaginary line parallel to the equator
• Chinese Mandarin: 緯圈 /纬圈 (wěiquān) — imaginary line parallel to the equator
• Esperanto: latitudo — imaginary line parallel to the equator
• Finnish: leveyspiiri — imaginary line parallel to the equator
• French: latitude — imaginary line parallel to the equator
• French: parallèle — imaginary line parallel to the equator
• Galician: latitude — imaginary line parallel to the equator
• Georgian: განედი (ganedi) — imaginary line parallel to the equator
• Georgian: პარალელი (ṗaraleli) — imaginary line parallel to the equator
• German: Breite — imaginary line parallel to the equator
• German: Breitenkreis — imaginary line parallel to the equator
• German: Breitengrad — imaginary line parallel to the equator
• Greek: γεωγραφικό πλάτος (geografikó plátos) — imaginary line parallel to the equator
• Gujarati: અક્ષાંશ (akṣā̃ś) — imaginary line parallel to the equator
• Hebrew: קַו רֹחַב (kav rokhav) — imaginary line parallel to the equator
• Hindi: अक्षांश (akṣāñś) — imaginary line parallel to the equator
• Ido: latitudo — imaginary line parallel to the equator
• Italian: latitudine — imaginary line parallel to the equator
• Japanese: 緯線 (isen) — imaginary line parallel to the equator
• Korean: 위선 (wiseon) — imaginary line parallel to the equator
• Latin: lātitūdō — imaginary line parallel to the equator
• Macedonian: напо́редник (napórednik) — imaginary line parallel to the equator
• Macedonian: парале́ла (paraléla) — imaginary line parallel to the equator
• Malay: garis lintang — imaginary line parallel to the equator
• Manx: dowan-lheead — imaginary line parallel to the equator
• Māori: ahopae — imaginary line parallel to the equator
• Moore: bĩin-paadse — imaginary line parallel to the equator
• Norwegian Bokmål: breddegrad — imaginary line parallel to the equator
• Norwegian Nynorsk: breiddegrad — imaginary line parallel to the equator
• Polish: równoleżnik — imaginary line parallel to the equator
• Portuguese: latitude — imaginary line parallel to the equator
• Romanian: latitudine — imaginary line parallel to the equator
• Russian: паралле́ль (parallélʹ) — imaginary line parallel to the equator
• Russian: широта́ (širotá) — imaginary line parallel to the equator
• Scottish Gaelic: domhan-leud — imaginary line parallel to the equator
• Slovak: rovnobežka — imaginary line parallel to the equator
• Spanish: latitud — imaginary line parallel to the equator
• Swedish: latitud — imaginary line parallel to the equator
• Tagalog: antaslayog — imaginary line parallel to the equator
• Telugu: అక్షాంశము (akṣāṁśamu) — imaginary line parallel to the equator
• Vietnamese: vĩ tuyến — imaginary line parallel to the equator
• Welsh: lledred — imaginary line parallel to the equator
• Bashkir: иркенлек (irkenlek) — freedom from restrictions
• Danish: råderum — freedom from restrictions
• Finnish: vapaus — freedom from restrictions
• Finnish: toimintavapaus — freedom from restrictions
• French: marge — freedom from restrictions
• Galician: marxe — freedom from restrictions
• Galician: liberdade — freedom from restrictions
• German: Spielraum — freedom from restrictions
• Greek: χαλαρότητα (chalarótita) — freedom from restrictions
• Hungarian: mozgástér — freedom from restrictions
• Norwegian Bokmål: handlingsrom — freedom from restrictions
• Norwegian Bokmål: spillerom — freedom from restrictions
• Norwegian Nynorsk: handlingsrom — freedom from restrictions
• Norwegian Nynorsk: spelerom — freedom from restrictions
• Polish: swoboda — freedom from restrictions
• Romanian: latitudine — freedom from restrictions
• Russian: свобо́да (svobóda) — freedom from restrictions
• Russian: самостоя́тельность (samostojátelʹnostʹ) — freedom from restrictions
• Russian: во́ля (vólja) — freedom from restrictions
• Serbo-Croatian: sloboda — freedom from restrictions
• Slovak: voľnosť — freedom from restrictions
• Spanish: holgura — freedom from restrictions
• Swedish: latitud — freedom from restrictions
• Swedish: handlingsfrihet — freedom from restrictions
• Swedish: spelrum — freedom from restrictions
• Turkish: serbestlik — freedom from restrictions
• Welsh: rhyddid — freedom from restrictions
• Welsh: penrhyddid — freedom from restrictions
• Welsh: rhwydd hynt — freedom from restrictions
• Bashkir: киңлек (kiñlek) — angular distance of a heavenly body from the ecliptic
• Finnish: deklinaatio — angular distance of a heavenly body from the ecliptic
• Galician: latitude — angular distance of a heavenly body from the ecliptic
• Greek: πλάτος (plátos) — angular distance of a heavenly body from the ecliptic
• Ancient Greek: πλάτος (plátos) — angular distance of a heavenly body from the ecliptic
• Norwegian: latitude — angular distance of a heavenly body from the ecliptic
• Polish: szerokość — angular distance of a heavenly body from the ecliptic
• Polish: szerokość ekliptyczna — angular distance of a heavenly body from the ecliptic
• Russian: широта́ (širotá) — angular distance of a heavenly body from the ecliptic
• Spanish: latitud — angular distance of a heavenly body from the ecliptic
• Welsh: lledred — angular distance of a heavenly body from the ecliptic
• Finnish: valotusvara — extent to which a light-sensitive material can be over- or underexposed
• Italian: latitudine di posa — extent to which a light-sensitive material can be over- or underexposed
• Russian: широта́ (širotá) — extent to which a light-sensitive material can be over- or underexposed
• Bulgarian: обхват (obhvat) — extent or scope
• Finnish: laajuus — extent or scope
• Latin: lātitūdō — extent or scope
• Scottish Gaelic: leud — extent or scope
• Serbo-Croatian: opseg — extent or scope
• Swedish: latitud — extent or scope