adverb
longitrorsus
longitrorsus (not comparable)
Classical[ɫɔŋ.ɡɪˈtrɔr.sʊs]Ecclesiastical[lon̠ʲ.d͡ʒiˈtrɔr.sus]
Meaning
- not comparablein length, lengthwise, lengthways
L o n g i t r o r s u s sic dicitur, sicut dextrorsus, sinistrorsus.
1839 [8th century CE], Paulus Diaconus, edited by Karl Otfried Müller, Excerpta ex libris Pompeii Festi De significatione verborum, page 120, line 7:
longĭtrorsus sic dicitur, sicut dextrorsus, sinistrorsus, Paul. ex Fest. p. 120 Müll.
Origins
From longus (“long”) + *-trorsus, probably extracted from words such as retrorsus or introrsus.