單詞
sesquipedalian
英 [,seskw?p?'de?l??n]
美[,s?skw?p?'delj?n]
基本信息
- n. 冗長的單字
- adj. 令人厭倦的；多音節(jié)的
英文詞源
- sesquipedalian
- sesquipedalian: [17] Sesquipedalian means etymologically ‘a(chǎn) foot and a half long’. Its use in English was inspired by the Roman poet Horace’s phrase sesquipedalia verba, literally ‘words a foot and a half long’, hence ‘preposterously long words that sound pompous’ – of which sesquipedalian itself is an appropriately good example. It is a compound word formed from the Latin prefix sesqui- ‘half as much again’ (a derivative of sēmi- ‘half’) and pēs ‘foot’.
=> foot, pedal - sesquipedalian (n.)
- 1610s, "person or thing a foot and a half long," from Latin sesquipedalia "a foot-and-a-half long," from sesqui- "half as much again" (see sesqui-) + stem of pes "foot," from PIE root *ped- (1) "a foot" (see foot (n.)). As an adjective 1650s. Meaning "sesquipedalian word" (1830) is from Latin sesquipedalia verba "words a foot-and-a-half long," in Horace's "Ars Poetica" (97), nicely illustrating the thing he is criticizing.
雙語例句
- 1. In this latter situation and would never expect their designers gifted in sesquipedalian locution.
- 有些情況下,設(shè)計(jì)師從來不需要考慮自己寫一個(gè)字.
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