Latitûdo, pen. prod. latitúdinis, f. g. Cicer.Breadth: largenesse: latitude.Crescere in latitudinem. Colum. To waxe broader.Latitudo possessionum.Cic.Great possessions.Latitudo verborum.Cic.The drawing long of words inpronouncing. vt, Oris prauitatem & verborum latitudinem imitatur. Cic.
Lewis and Short: Latin dictionary
lātĭtūdo, ĭnis, f. [1. latus], breadth, width of any thing (class.). I.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. —B.Transf., in gen., extent, size, compass: possessionum, Cic. Agr. 2, 26, 67.—II.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. platu/ths th=s e(rmh nei/as, called amplitudo Platonis, Cic. Or. 1, 5).
