longitude
Portuguese, noun/lõ.ʒiˈtu.d͡ʒi/
longitude is spelled L-O-N-G-I-T-U-D-E (9 letters) and appears 1.1 times per million words in written Portuguese, the 30,857th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Longitude is a Portuguese feminine noun meaning “angular distance measured west or east of the Greenwich Meridian” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “distância angular a leste ou oeste na superfície da terra medida pelo ângulo contido entre o meridiano de um…”.
What does longitude mean in English?
noun
- 1
feminineangular distance measured west or east of the Greenwich Meridian
- 2
femininean imaginary line perpendicular to the equator, passing through the North Pole and South Pole
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
noun: 1. distância angular a leste ou oeste na superfície da terra medida pelo ângulo contido entre o meridiano de um ponto qualquer e aquele de um ponto de referência, como, por exemplo, o meridiano de Greenwich na Inglaterra; é expressado em graus
The definition in the Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário), in Portuguese.
Source: Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of longitude
- longitudes plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce longitude?
- Brazil /lõ.ʒiˈtu.d͡ʒi/
- Portugal /lõ.ʒiˈtu.dɨ/
- Portugal [lõ.ʒiˈtu.ðɨ]
Sources: English Wiktionary, Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to longitude
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is longitude in Portuguese?
longitude appears 1.1 times per million words in written Portuguese.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).