magnitude
/ˈmæɡnəˌtuːd/MAG-nuh-tood
/ˈmæɡnəˌtud/MAG-nuh-tood
Meaninggreatness
Common meaning: size
Other meanings: importance
- magngreat, bigLewis & Short, Latin Dictionary (1879), p. 1098 · scan
- itudenoun ending: the state of
Journey through time
- Latinmagnitudo‘greatness’source
- Englishmagnitude‘size’ · today
Sources & notes
Meaning: “Meaning” is the sense that emerges from the word’s roots; “Common meaning” is today’s everyday sense. Both written by us.
Pronunciation
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- US IPA: CMUdict (BSD-2), converted to IPA by rule. Respelling: generated.
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Origin: Built on Latin magnus ‘great, big’.
Roots
- magnus, -a, -um Latin “great, big”
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