The corpus record — Latin

latitudo

latitudo · f

breadth, width

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Where it lives

De Architectura 128 · 22.2/10k
De Fide Catholica 1 · 5.19/10k
Res Rustica, Books I-IX 38 · 4.83/10k
Naturalis Historia 142 · 3.58/10k
De idolatria 2 · 2.9/10k
De bello Gallico 9 · 1.75/10k
De Spectaculis 1 · 1.57/10k
De Bello Africo 2 · 1.54/10k
De agri cultura 2 · 1.28/10k
Nero 1 · 1.28/10k
De Bello Civili 4 · 1.24/10k
Historiae Alexandri Magni 8 · 1.08/10k

Densest 12 of 38 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

lātĭtūdo — Lewis & Short

lātĭtūdo, ĭnis, f.1. latus,

I breadth, width of any thing (class.).

I Lit.: in hac immensitate latitudinum, longitudinum, altitudinum, Cic. N. D. 1, 20, 54: fossae, Caes. B. G. 2, 12: castra amplius milibus passuum VIII. in latitudinem patebant, id. ib. 2, 7 fin.: patere in latitudinem, id. ib. 2, 8; Plin. 3 prooem. § 3; cf. Quint. 1, 10, 42; 11, 3, 141: vires umerorum et latitudines ad aratra extrahenda, Cic. N. D. 2, 63, 159. —

B Transf., in gen., extent, size, compass: possessionum, Cic. Agr. 2, 26, 67.—

II Trop. (very rare): verborum, a broad pronunciation, Cic. de Or. 2, 22, 91: Platonica, richness or copiousness of expression, Plin. Ep. 1, 10, 5 (for the Gr. platu/ths th=s e(rmh nei/as, called amplitudo Platonis, Cic. Or. 1, 5).

In the wild

latitudo Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 6.26.p3
latitudine Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 6.27.p4
latitudinem Julius Caesar, De Bello Civili 3.63.1
latitudine Cicero, Lucullus 116
latitudinis Columella, Res Rustica, Books I-IX 8.3.2
latitudine Vitruvius, De Architectura 10.15.5

6 of 389 attestations shown.

Where it came from

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