longitrorsus
Latin
Alternative forms
Etymology
From longus (“long”) + *-trorsus, probably extracted from words such as retrorsus or introrsus.
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /lon.ɡiˈtror.sus/, [ɫɔŋ.ɡɪˈtrɔr.sʊs]
Adverb
longitrorsus (not comparable)
- in length, lengthwise, lengthways
- AD 8th C., Paulus Diaconus (author), Karl Otfried Müller (editor), Excerpta ex libris Pompeii Festi De significatione verborum (1839), page 120, line 7:
- L o n g i t r o r s u s sic dicitur, sicut dextrorsus, sinistrorsus.
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- AD 8th C., Paulus Diaconus (author), Karl Otfried Müller (editor), Excerpta ex libris Pompeii Festi De significatione verborum (1839), page 120, line 7:
References
- longĭtrorsus in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- longĭtrorsus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette, page 921/1
- “longitrōsus” on page 1,042/1 of the Oxford Latin Dictionary (1st ed., 1968–82)
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