altitudinal
adjective
altitudinal is an adjective meaning “Of or in relation to altitude” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled A-L-T-I-T-U-D-I-N-A-L, and it appears about once in every 13 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data).
What does altitudinal mean?
adjective
- 1
Of or in relation to altitude
altitudinal variation
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is altitudinal?
Altitudinal appears about once in every 13 million words in written English, the 110,368th most frequent word form in the list.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
Altitudinal in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense of or in relation to altitude:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | altitudinal |
| Portuguese | altitudinal |
| Spanish | altitudinal |
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Translations are Wiktionary's, by sense; a linked word has its own PlainSpell page.
Where does altitudinal come from?
From Latin altitūdin- + -al, from oblique stem of Latin altitūdō, from altus + -tūdō. By surface analysis, altitude + -al.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).