magnĭtūdo (noun F) : id.
* Greatness, size, bulk, magnitude (class.).
* Lit.
* Silvestres apes minores sunt magnitudine, in size, Varr. R. R. 3, 16, 19: mundi,Cic. Off. 1, 43, 154: maris Aegaei,id. Fin. 3, 14, 45: fluminis,Caes. B. C. 1, 49: corporum,id. B. G. 1, 39: ad fabae magnitudinem,of the size of, as large as,Cels. 5, 25, 4: habebat ursos ferociae ac magnitudini suae simillimos,Lact. Mort. Pers. 21, 5: Goliath quidam, vir mirae magnitudinis et roboris,Sulp. Sev. Chron. 1, 34, 3: elephantus ferus infinitae magnitudinis ultro se obtulit,Just. 15, 4, 19.—Plur.: magnitudines regionum,Cic. Phil. 13, 3, 5.
* Trop.
* In gen., greatness, vastness, extent: magnitudo et vis amoris,Cic. Fam. 2, 7, 2: acerbitatis et odii,id. Deiot. 11, 30: beneficii,id. Fam. 1, 7, 2: periculi,id. Quint. 2, 6: doloris,Plin. 25, 3, 7, § 24: ingenii,id. 25, 2, 3, § 7: animi,greatness of soul,Cic. Part. 23, 81.— Rhetorically: vocis, the strength or compass of the voice, Auct. Her. 3, 11, 20.— Of time: dierum ac noctium magnitudines, length, Plin 36, 10, 15, § 72.
* In partic., rank, dignity (post-Aug.): imperatoria,Tac. A. 16, 23: infra tuam magnitudinem,beneath your dignity,id. ib. 14, 54. —Hence, in late Lat., as a title of honor, highness, excellency: magnitudo tua,Cassiod. Var. 9, 13; Cod. Just. 1, 27, 2.

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