lātĭtūdo (noun F) : 1. latus
* Breadth, width of any thing (class.).
* Lit.: in hac immensitate latitudinum, longitudinum, altitudinum,Cic. N. D. 1, 20, 54: fossae,Caes. B. G. 2, 12: castra amplius milibus passuum VIII. in latitudinem patebant,id. ib. 2, 7fin.: patere in latitudinem,id. ib. 2, 8; Plin. 3 prooem. § 3; cf. Quint. 1, 10, 42; 11, 3, 141: vires umerorum et latitudines ad aratra extrahenda,Cic. N. D. 2, 63, 159.
* Transf., in gen., extent, size, compass: possessionum,Cic. Agr. 2, 26, 67.
* Trop. (very rare): verborum,a broad pronunciation,Cic. de Or. 2, 22, 91: Platonica, richness or copiousness of expression, Plin. Ep. 1, 10, 5 (for the Gr. πλατύτης τῆς ἑρμη νείας, called amplitudo Platonis, Cic. Or. 1, 5).

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