latitude

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Etymology

Borrowed from French latitude, from Latin lātitūdō (breadth, width, latitude), from lātus (broad, wide), from older stlātus.

Pronunciation

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Noun

latitude (countable and uncountable, plural latitudes)

  1. (geography, astronomy) The angular distance north or south from a planet's equator, measured along the meridian of that particular point.
  2. (geography) An imaginary line (in fact a circumference) around a planet running parallel to the planet's equator.
  3. The relative freedom from restrictions; scope to do something.
    His parents gave him a great deal of latitude.
  4. (astronomy) The angular distance of a heavenly body from the ecliptic.
  5. (photography) The extent to which a light-sensitive material can be over- or underexposed and still achieve an acceptable result.
  6. Extent or scope; e.g. breadth, width or amplitude.

Usage notes

  • When used to refer to distances or imaginary lines around a planet, latitude is relative to the Earth's Equator unless another planet is specified.

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French

Etymology

From Latin lātitūdō (breadth, width, latitude), from lātus (broad, wide), from older stlātus.

Pronunciation

Noun

latitude f (plural latitudes)

  1. expansion, breadth
    • Ce principe peut avoir une grande latitude.
    • Donner trop de latitude à une proposition, à l’application d’un principe.
    • Laisser beaucoup de latitude aux agents chargés d’une mission.
    • Avoir toute latitude pour: avoir toute liberté pour.
  2. (geography) The distance from a place to the equator measured in degrees on the meridian; parallel viewing.
    • 1921, Henry-D. Davray and B. Kozakiewicz (translators), H.G. Wells (author), La Guerre dans les Airs, Mercure de France, page 174:
      C’est ici que ça se passe, 30°50’ de latitude nord, 30°50’ de longitude ouest… à une journée de distance pour nous, et ils filent sud-sud-ouest à toute vapeur. À ce train-là nous ne verrons rien, […].
    • 1928, Jean-Baptiste Charcot, Dans la mer du Groenland:
      Le Scoresby Sund est le plus vaste fjord du monde entier. Il est découpé dans la côte Orientale du Groenland entre 70° et 72° de latitude Nord et 22° et 30° de longitude Ouest de Greenwich.
    • 1929, Alain Gerbault, À la poursuite du soleil, volume 1: De New-York à Tahiti:
      […] le 12 mars, par 20 degrés de latitude Nord, je rencontrai les vents alizés, je pouvais compter dorénavant sur un plus faible et agréable navigation dans les mers tropicales.
  3. (by extension) Different areas under a given temperature due to their greater or lesser distance from the equator.
    À la différence des animaux, l’homme peut vivre sous les latitudes les plus opposées.
  4. (astronomy) The angle with a plane parallel to the ecliptic, the straight line that passes through a heavenly body and a particular centre on this plane.
    • Latitude australe ou boréale.
    • Latitude héliocentrique, géocentrique, etc.
    • Latitude de Sirius.
  5. freedom

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References

  • All or part of this article is from the Dictionary of the French Academy, Eighth Edition, 1932-1935, but it may have been modified since.

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Portuguese

Noun

latitude f (plural latitudes)

  1. (geography, astronomy) latitude (angular distance north or south from the equator)
  2. (geography) latitude (imaginary line parallel to the equator)