| 词汇 | hippopotomontrosesquipedalianism |
| 词源 | hippopotomontrosesquipedalianism. This word (I won’t repeat it out of pity for the typesetter) is the term for “the prac- tice of using long words.” Composed of 32 letters itself, it is far longer than its synonym sesquipedalian words, from Horace’s sesquipedalia verba, words a foot and a half long. The Greeks, too, had a word for mile-long words: amaxiaia remata, “words large enough for a wagon.” |
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