adverb
longē
longē (comparative longius, superlative longissimē)
Classical[ˈɫɔŋ.ɡeː]Ecclesiastical[ˈlɔn̠ʲ.d͡ʒe]
№ 400 of the 1,000 commonest wordsMille Verba core vocabulary
Meaning
- long, a long way off, far, afar, far away, far off, at a distance
Sed quam longē vidētur ā carcere atque ā vinculīs abesse dēbēre, quī sē ipse iam dignum cūstōdia iūdicārit.
But how far from prison and from chains does it seem he ought to be, who he himself has already judged worthy of custody? (Catiline had asked for protective custody.)63 BCE, Cicero, In Catilinam orationes 1.19arcēbat longē Latiō [Juno] was keeping [the Trojans] far away from Latium
29 BCE – 19 BCE, Vergilius, Aeneis 1.31 - long, for a long period of time
Neque longe progressus
not much time has passed - widely, greatly, much, very much
Docet longe alia ratione esse bellum gerendum atque antea gestum sit
He teaches that they must fight by a very different method from that which had been previously adopted
Latīnē defined in Latin in our graded readers
procul, magnō spatiō; longē ā domō.longē adv — in Mille Verba, Castra in Aegyptō
far away
longē — in Viri Romae Facillimi, ch. 6, 22
longē, adv., v. longus
I. fin. A.
Charlton Lewis's shorter dictionary for students: the same scholarship in plain, modern definitions.
longē adv. with comp. and sup.
longus, a long way off, far, far off, at a distance : ab eo oppido non longe fanum est: longe absum: longe lateque conlucere, far and wide : longe gradi, take long steps , V.: Rhenum non longe a mari transire, Cs.: longius prodire, Cs.: fontes longius a praesidiis aberant, Cs.: a cultu provinciae longissime absunt, Cs.— Away, distant : tria milia passuum longe ab castris, Cs.: minus V et XX milibus longe ab Uticā, Cs.—Fig., far away, out of reach, of no avail : longe iis fraternum nomen populi R. afuturum, Cs.: Longe illi dea mater erit, V.: Quam tibi nunc longe regnum dotale Creüsae, O.— Long, for a long period : longe prospicere futuros casūs: stupet Dares, longeque recusat, V.: Varro vitam Naevi producit longius: longius anno remanere, Cs.: longissime respicere: haec dixi longius quam, etc., at greater length.—Widely, greatly, much, very much, by far : errat, T.: nobilissimus, Cs.: doctissimus, H.: longe plurimum ingenio valuisse videtur: quod longe secus est: dissimilis contentio: longe mihi alia mens est, S.: longissime diversa ratio est: longe omnīs multumque superare: Sed longe cunctis longeque potentior illa, O.: longe melior, V.: minor, L.
Origins
From longus (“far, long”) + -ē. Compare English long and Icelandic langt and lengi.
Southern Gallo-Romance
- Catalanlluny
- Catalanllunt
- Catalanllun
- Occitanluènh
- Occitanluònh
- Gasconloi
- Gasconlonh
- Gasconlunh
- Languedocienlenc
- Languedocienlens
Ibero-Romance
- Portugueselongefrom Old Galician-Portuguese longe
- Spanishlueñefrom Old Spanish lueñe
- Aragoneseluent
- Aragoneselluent
- Asturianlloñe
- Asturianllonxe
- Asturianalluendi
- Mirandeseloinge
- Falalondxifrom Old Galician-Portuguese longe
- Falalongifrom Old Galician-Portuguese longe
Italo-Romance
- Italianlungi
Northern Gallo-Romance
- Frenchloinfrom Old French loing
- Franco-Provençallyuen
- Franco-Provençalluen
Gallo-Italic
- Ligurianlónxi
- Piedmonteseleugn