The story
- Latin · derived fromlongitūdō“length, a measured length”
- Old French · derived fromlongitude
- English todaylongitude
From Middle English, borrowed from Old French longitude, from Latin longitūdō (“length, a measured length”), from longus (“long”).
Words from the same roots
Latinlongitūdō all →
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.