magnitudo

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See also: magnitúdó

Indonesian

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin magnitūdō.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /makniˈtudo/
  • Rhymes: -do, -o
  • Hyphenation: mag‧ni‧tu‧do

Noun

magnitudo (first-person possessive magnitudoku, second-person possessive magnitudomu, third-person possessive magnitudonya)

  1. magnitude
    1. (seismology) A measure of the energy released by an earthquake (e.g. on the Richter scale).
    2. (astronomy) A logarithmic scale of brightness defined so that a difference of 5 magnitudes is a factor of 100.
      1. A ratio of intensity expressed as a logarithm.

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Italian

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from Latin magnitūdinem. Doublet of magnitudine.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /maɲ.ɲiˈtu.do/
  • Rhymes: -udo
  • Hyphenation: ma‧gni‧tù‧do

Noun

magnitudo f (invariable)

  1. (seismology) magnitude (energy released by an earthquake)

Further reading

  • magnitudo in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

Latin

Etymology

From magnus (“big, great”) +‎ -tūdō.

Pronunciation

Noun

magnitūdō f (genitive magnitūdinis); third declension

  1. greatness, size, bulk, magnitude; vastness, extent.
  2. a great number, amount or quantity, abundance.
    Synonyms: cōpia, abundantia, affluentia, ūbertās, fertilitās, ūber
    Antonyms: dēficientia, cāritās, inopia

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

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, London: Macmillan and Co.
    • to differ qualitatively not quantitatively: genere, non numero or magnitudine differre
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