long-, longi-
(Latin: long)
elongate (verb), elongates; elongated; elongating
To extend by pulling and stretching.
long (adjective); longer, longest
1. Extending a relatively great distance: Joe and Josephine went the long way home after visiting their friends.
2. Of a relatively great duration: Shirley's daughter spent a long time at her friend's birthday party.
2. Of a relatively great duration: Shirley's daughter spent a long time at her friend's birthday party.
long (noun); longs; longed; longing
To have an earnest, heartfelt desire, especially for something beyond one's reach.
1. Calmness and forbearance in the face of suffering and adversity: Despite all of the tubes inserted into her body by doctors, Sara continued to have longanimity that she would get better.

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The psychiatrist treats his mentally deranged or insane patients with longanimity.
Patience, endurance, poise, calmness, perseverance, and longanimitiy are synonymous with each other.
2. Etymology: from Latin longanimitas, from longanimis, "patient"; from Latin longus, "long" +animus, "mind, reason".
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longeval
Long lived or living a long time.
longevity
1. A long duration of life.
2. Etymology: from Late Latin longaevitas, "great age, long life", from Latin longaevus, "of great age", which is compounded of longus, "long", and aevum, "age".
2. Etymology: from Late Latin longaevitas, "great age, long life", from Latin longaevus, "of great age", which is compounded of longus, "long", and aevum, "age".
longicaudal, longicaudate
Longtailed.
longicaudate
longicauline
Long-stemmed.
longicollous
In botany, applied to mosses that have urns in the form of a very elongated pear.
longicone
Having a long cone, said of certain cephalopods.
longicorn
Having long antennae (literally, "long horned").
longilateral
Long-sided, of the form of a long parallelogram.
longilingual
Having a long tongue.