The story
- Latin · derived fromlātitūdō“breadth, width, latitude”
- Old French · derived fromlatitude
- English todaylatitude
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.
Words from the same roots
Latinlātitūdō all →
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.