noun, feminine/la.ti.tyd/plural: latitudes
expansion, breadth; the distance from a place to the equator measured in degrees on the meridian; parallel viewing; Different areas under a given temperature due to their greater or lesser distance from the equator; the angle with a plane parallel to the ecliptic, the straight line that passes through a heavenly body and a particular centre on this plane; freedom
“Ce principe peut avoir une grande latitude.”
From Latin lātitūdō (“breadth, width, latitude”), from lātus (“broad, wide”), from older stlātus.