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Latin
Etymology
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
Adjective
longinquus (feminine longinqua, neuter longinquum, comparative longinquior, adverb longinquē or longinquō); first/second-declension adjective
- long, extensive; far off, distant, remote
- Synonym: remōtus
- Antonyms: propinquus, vīcīnus, contiguus, fīnitimus, proximus
- living far off, foreign, strange
- prolonged, continued, lasting, tedious, long
- old, ancient
- Synonyms: antīquus, vetus, prīscus, vetustus
- Antonym: recēns
- far-fetched, remote
Declension
First/second-declension adjective.
Derived terms
Descendants
References
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, London: Macmillan and Co.
- distant nations: longinquae nationes