longinquus

Latin

Etymology

Etymology tree

Proto-Indo-European *dlongʰos

Proto-Italic *dlongos

Latin long(us)

Latin (h)inc

Proto-Indo-European *-wós

Proto-Italic *-wos

Latin -uus

Latin longinquus

From long(us) (“long, far”) + (h)inc (“hence”) + -uus. Compare propinquus.

Or the ending may come from some Proto-Indo-European *-n̥kʷo- seen in Ancient Greek ἀλλοδ-απός (allod-após), ποδ-απός (pod-após) (their first parts here correspond to Latin aliud, quod) etc. See also Proto-Germanic *-ungō.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ɫɔŋˈɡɪŋ.kʊs]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [lon̠ʲˈd͡ʒiŋ.kʷus]

Adjective

longinquus (feminine longinqua, neuter longinquum, comparative longinquior, adverb longinquē or longinquō); first/second-declension adjective

1. long, extensive; far off, distant, remote

   Synonym: remōtus

   Antonyms: propinquus, vīcīnus, contiguus, fīnitimus, proximus

2. living far off, foreign, strange
3. prolonged, continued, lasting, tedious, long
4. old, ancient

   Synonyms: antīquus, vetus, prīscus, vetustus

   Antonym: recēns

5. far-fetched, remote

Declension

First/second-declension adjective.

	singular				plural
	masculine	feminine	neuter		masculine	feminine	neuter
nominative	longinquus	longinqua	longinquum		longinquī	longinquae	longinqua
genitive	longinquī	longinquae	longinquī		longinquōrum	longinquārum	longinquōrum
dative	longinquō	longinquae	longinquō		longinquīs
accusative	longinquum	longinquam	longinquum		longinquōs	longinquās	longinqua
ablative	longinquō	longinquā	longinquō		longinquīs
vocative	longinque	longinqua	longinquum		longinquī	longinquae	longinqua

Derived terms

• longinquē
• longinquitās
• longinquō

Related terms

• longaevitās
• longaevus
• longanimis
• longanimitās
• longanimiter
• longē
• longiloquium
• longipēs
• longiscō
• longiter
• longitia
• longitūdō
• longiturnitās
• longiturnus
• longiusculē
• longiusculus
• longivīvāx
• longulē
• longulus
• longuriō
• longurius
• longus

Descendants

• Inherited:
  • Old Occitan: longinc
  • Old Spanish: lonninco
• Borrowed:
  • → Portuguese: longínquo
  • → Spanish: longincuo

References

• Pokorny, Julius (1959), Indogermanisches etymologisches Wörterbuch [Indo-European Etymological Dictionary] (in German), volume 1, Bern, München: Francke Verlag, page 24
• Walther von Wartburg (1928–2002), “longinquus”, in Französisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch (in German), volume 5: J L, page 406

Further reading

• “longinquus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “longinquus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “longinquus”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894), Latin Phrase-Book‎^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
  • distant nations: longinquae nationes