magnitudo

See also: magnitúdó

Italian

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin magnitūdō.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /maɲ.ɲiˈtu.do/, [mäɲɲiˈt̪uːd̪o]
• Rhymes: -udo
• Hyphenation: ma‧gni‧tù‧do

Noun

magnitudo f (uncountable)

1. magnitude - of an earthquake

See also

• magnitudine

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Latin

Etymology

From magnus (“big, great”) +‎ -tūdō.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /maɡ.niˈtuː.doː/, [mäŋnɪˈt̪uːd̪oː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /maɲ.ɲiˈtu.do/, [mäɲːiˈt̪uːd̪o]

Noun

magnitūdō f (genitive magnitūdinis); third declension

1. Greatness, size, bulk, magnitude; vastness, extent.
2. A great number, amount or quantity, abundance.

Declension

Third-declension noun.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	magnitūdō	magnitūdinēs
Genitive	magnitūdinis	magnitūdinum
Dative	magnitūdinī	magnitūdinibus
Accusative	magnitūdinem	magnitūdinēs
Ablative	magnitūdine	magnitūdinibus
Vocative	magnitūdō	magnitūdinēs

Descendants

• English: magnitude
• French: magnitude
• Italian: magnitudo
• Russian: магнитуда (magnituda)
• Spanish: magnitud

References

• “magnitudo”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “magnitudo”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• magnitudo in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• magnitudo in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
  • to differ qualitatively not quantitatively: genere, non numero or magnitudine differre