Noun: amplitude
| Singular | amplitude |
| Plural | amplitudes |
Sample Sentences
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The cathedral of Lincoln […] is a magnificent structure, proportionable to the amplitude of the diocese. [1655, Thomas Fuller, The Church-history of Britain; […], London: […] Iohn Williams […], →OCLC, (please specify |book=I to XI):]
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amplitude of mind [1671, John Milton, “The First Book”, in Paradise Regain’d. A Poem. In IV Books. To which is Added, Samson Agonistes, London: […] J[ohn] M[acock] for John Starkey […], →OCLC, page 2:]
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amplitude of comprehension [1849–1861, Thomas Babington Macaulay, The History of England from the Accession of James the Second, volume (please specify |volume=I to V), London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, →OCLC:]
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As the two topped the ridge there burst on them the strong scarlet light of a red-curtained English inn. It stood sideways in the road, as if standing aside in the amplitude of hospitality. [1911, G. K. Chesterton, The Innocence of Father Brown:]
Nouns inflected like amplitude
soldier's woundwort,
Nicosian,
whopper,
greypate,
tactile sign language,
chronotrope,
Rosie Lee,
dissentient,
photoinactivator,
sulphonediimine,
coastal waterfall,
residuary devise,
bituminization,
nitrosonaphthol,
smṛiti,
geosphere,
backscreen,
mensuralist,
flocculate,
flocculant, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
1. Etymology tree
2. Proto-Indo-European *h₃emh₃-der.
3. Proto-Indo-European *h₃emh₃-lo-s
4. Proto-Italic *amlos?
5. Proto-Indo-European *h₂ent-
6. Proto-Indo-European *-s
7. Proto-Indo-European *h₂énts?
8. Proto-Indo-European *h₂m̥bʰíder.
9. Proto-Italic *amβi-
10. Latin ambi-
11. Proto-Indo-European *pleh₁-
12. Proto-Indo-European *-nós
13. Proto-Indo-European *pl̥h₁nós
14. Proto-Italic *plēnosder.
15. Latin plēnus?
16. Latin ambiplus?
17. Latin amplus
18. Proto-Indo-European *-tu-
19. Proto-Indo-European *-d-
20. Proto-Indo-European *-Hō
21. Proto-Italic *-tūdō
22. Latin -tūdō
23. Latin amplitūdōder.
24. Middle French amplitudebor.
25. English amplitude
26. Borrowed from Middle French amplitude, from Latin amplitūdō, from amplus (“large”). By surface analysis, ample + -itude. See: Latin Nouns '
amplitūdō'.
Verbs referencing "amplitude"
Finnish Nouns
amplitudi, Irish Nouns
aimplitiúid.