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Latin
Etymology
From longinquus (“long, distant; remote; lasting”) + -tās.
Pronunciation
Noun
longinquitās f (genitive longinquitātis); third declension
- (of space) A length, extent; distance, remoteness.
- Antonyms: propinquitās, contiguitās, adfīnitās, vīcīnitās
- (of time) A long continuance or duration, length.
- Synonyms: longitia, longitūdō
Declension
Third-declension noun.
Descendants
References
- “longinquitas”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “longinquitas”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- longinquitas in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.