English
latitudinarian
Latitudinarian comes from Latin lātitūdō ‘breadth, width, latitude’, and goes back to lātus ‘wide’.
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CElātus‘wide’
- Latin, derivedc. 75 BCE–200 CElātitūdōas lātitūdin-‘breadth, width, latitude’
- Englishearliest quotation 1743latitudinarian
attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed
Lineage
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CElātus‘wide’
- Latin, derivedc. 75 BCE–200 CElātitūdōas lātitūdin-‘breadth, width, latitude’
- Englishearliest quotation 1743latitudinarian
Earliest quotation: 1743, Robert Drury, The Pleasant: “’Tis probable, that the Account here given of the…”
Formed from -arian
Linked words
through Latin lātus ‘wide’
le, lateral, dilate, dilatation, 12 more
Today it means
adj Not restrained; not confined by precise limits.
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / Latin lātus / latitudinarian