-itude / -tude
state or quality of
Latin · -itudo, -tudo
Latin -itūdo or -tūdo makes nouns for a state or quality: grateful becomes gratitude, solitary becomes solitude, many becomes multitude, large becomes magnitude.
Memory trick
ITUDE sounds like "it-TUDE": a quality, an attitude, with attitude.
Words from this root
- gratitude (grat + itude) — feeling of being thankfulकृतज्ञता
- solitude (sol + itude) — being aloneएकांत
- multitude (mult + itude) — a large crowdभीड़
- magnitude (magn + itude) — size, importanceपरिमाण, विशालता
- altitude (alt + itude) — height above sea levelऊँचाई
- aptitude (apt + itude) — natural talentअभिरुचि, योग्यता
- attitude (att + itude) — way of thinking or actingरवैया
- fortitude (fort + itude) — courage in painधैर्य, सहनशक्ति
- longitude (long + itude) — distance east or westदेशांतर
- latitude (lat + itude) — distance north or southअक्षांश
- servitude (serv + itude) — condition of being a servantदासता
- platitude (plat + itude) — a flat, overused remarkघिसी-पिटी बात