longitrorsus

Latin

Alternative forms

• longitrōsus

Etymology

From longus (“long”) + *-trorsus, probably extracted from words such as retrorsus or introrsus.

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /lon.ɡiˈtror.sus/, [ɫ̪ɔŋɡɪˈt̪rɔrs̠ʊs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /lon.d͡ʒiˈtror.sus/, [lon̠ʲd͡ʒiˈt̪rɔrsus]

Adverb

longitrorsus (not comparable)

1. in length, lengthwise, lengthways
   • 1839 [8th century CE], Paulus Diaconus, edited by Karl Otfried Müller, Excerpta ex libris Pompeii Festi De significatione verborum, page 120, line 7:

     L o n g i t r o r s u s  sic dicitur, sicut dextrorsus, sinistrorsus.

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

References

• “longĭtrorsus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• longĭtrorsus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette, page 921/1.
• “longitrōsus” on page 1,042/1 of the Oxford Latin Dictionary (1st ed., 1968–82)