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sesquipedalian
語源
From sesquipedal + -ian (adjective- かつ noun-forming suffix), root from Latin sēsquipedālis (字義どおりに “a foot かつ a half long”), from Latin sēsqui (“one かつ a half times”) + Latin pedālis (“measuring a foot, foot (relational)”) (an adjective from pēs (“foot”)).
名詞
sesquipedalian (複数形 sesquipedalians)
- A long word.
- 1830, On the Art of Rising in Prose The New Monthly Magazine and Literary Journal, part 2, v. 29, Henry Colburn and Co., page: 162:
- “The fine old fellow,” as a Northern contemporary of ours patronizingly calls him, certainly rolled out his sesquipedalians with a majesty previously unknown, and gave a fine organ-like swell to his full-blow periods;
- 1927, John S. Farmer, William Ernest Henley, A Dictionary of Slang and Colloquial English: Abridged from the Seven-volume Work, Entitled "Slang and Its Analogues", Taylor & Francis, page: 164:
- 1952, Hannah More, Syndics of the Cambridge University Press, page: 220:
- 1830, On the Art of Rising in Prose The New Monthly Magazine and Literary Journal, part 2, v. 29, Henry Colburn and Co., page: 162:
- A person who uses long words.
- 2008, Richard Dawkins, The Oxford Book of Modern Science Writing,Oxford University Press, page: 106:
- Word-watchers, verbivores, and sesquipedalians love a challenge.
- 2009, Sally Adams, Wynford Hicks, Interviewing for Journalists, Taylor & Francis, page: 97:
- ‘What sort of writer is the English professor looking for?’ / ‘He wants a sesquipedalian, of course.’
- 2012, Jonathan Herring, How to Argue: Powerfully, Persuasively, Positively, FT Press, chapter 8, page: ?:
- 2008, Richard Dawkins, The Oxford Book of Modern Science Writing,Oxford University Press, page: 106:
形容詞
sesquipedalian (comparative more sesquipedalian, superlative most sesquipedalian)
- (of a word または words) Long; polysyllabic.
- The most common use of "antidisestablishmentarianism" is as an example of a sesquipedalian word.
- 1861, Anthony Trollope, Framley Parsonage
- He would use the simplest, plainest language, he said to himself over and over again; but it is not always easy to use simple, plain language,—by no means so easy as to mount on stilts, and to march along with sesquipedalian words, with pathos, spasms, and notes of interjection.
- Pertaining to or given to the use of overly long words.
- 2014 October 30, Ben Brantley, “When the head leads the heart: 'The Real Thing,' With Ewan McGregor and Maggie Gyllenhaal, opens on Broadway [print version: When the witty head is far ahead of the heart: Maggie Gyllenhaal and Ewan McGregor star in revival of 'Real Thing', International New York Times, 4 November 2014, p. 9]”, in The New York Times[1]:
- [I]ts main character, Henry (Mr. [Ewan] McGregor), is a successful, intellectual dramatist who seems quite capable of churning out fizzy, challenging works about brilliant but ambivalent revolutionaries, philosophers, etc. […] But this cleverer-than-thou creature gets his comeuppance in "The Real Thing," showing that a very human heart – just like those possessed by the less sesquipedalian – beats beneath his fancy words.
反意語
派生語
- sesquipedalianism – literary style characterised by the use of long words.
- sesquipedalianist – a writer using sesquipedalianism.
- sesquipedalophobia – fear of long words.
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