See sesquipedal in All languages combined, or Wiktionary
Download JSON data for sesquipedal meaning in English (2.6kB)
{
"etymology_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "ine-pro",
"3": "*ped-"
},
"expansion": "",
"name": "root"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "la",
"3": "sesquipedalis"
},
"expansion": "Latin sesquipedalis",
"name": "bor"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "sesqui",
"3": "pedal",
"t1": "one and a half",
"t2": "foot, of the foot"
},
"expansion": "sesqui- (“one and a half”) + pedal (“foot, of the foot”)",
"name": "prefix"
}
],
"etymology_text": "Borrowed from Latin sesquipedalis; equivalent to sesqui- (“one and a half”) + pedal (“foot, of the foot”).",
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "-"
},
"expansion": "sesquipedal (not comparable)",
"name": "en-adj"
}
],
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "adj",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
{
"_dis": "55 45",
"kind": "other",
"name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
"parents": [
"Entries with incorrect language header",
"Entry maintenance"
],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "64 36",
"kind": "other",
"name": "English terms prefixed with sesqui-",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
}
],
"derived": [
{
"word": "sesquipedalian"
}
],
"glosses": [
"Measuring or containing a foot and a half."
],
"id": "en-sesquipedal-en-adj-olIBrd2U",
"tags": [
"not-comparable"
],
"translations": [
{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "measuring or containing a foot and a half",
"word": "sesquipedale"
},
{
"code": "la",
"lang": "Latin",
"sense": "measuring or containing a foot and a half",
"word": "sēsquipedālis"
}
]
}
],
"word": "sesquipedal"
}
{
"etymology_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "ine-pro",
"3": "*ped-"
},
"expansion": "",
"name": "root"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "la",
"3": "sesquipedalis"
},
"expansion": "Latin sesquipedalis",
"name": "bor"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "sesqui",
"3": "pedal",
"t1": "one and a half",
"t2": "foot, of the foot"
},
"expansion": "sesqui- (“one and a half”) + pedal (“foot, of the foot”)",
"name": "prefix"
}
],
"etymology_text": "Borrowed from Latin sesquipedalis; equivalent to sesqui- (“one and a half”) + pedal (“foot, of the foot”).",
"forms": [
{
"form": "sesquipedals",
"tags": [
"plural"
]
}
],
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {},
"expansion": "sesquipedal (plural sesquipedals)",
"name": "en-noun"
}
],
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "noun",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
{
"_dis": "55 45",
"kind": "other",
"name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
"parents": [
"Entries with incorrect language header",
"Entry maintenance"
],
"source": "w+disamb"
}
],
"glosses": [
"A long word."
],
"id": "en-sesquipedal-en-noun-RNHPxu9w",
"links": [
[
"long",
"long"
],
[
"word",
"word"
]
],
"synonyms": [
{
"word": "sesquipedalian"
}
]
}
],
"word": "sesquipedal"
}
{
"categories": [
"English adjectives",
"English countable nouns",
"English entries with incorrect language header",
"English lemmas",
"English nouns",
"English terms borrowed from Latin",
"English terms derived from Latin",
"English terms derived from Proto-Indo-European",
"English terms derived from the Proto-Indo-European root *ped-",
"English terms prefixed with sesqui-",
"English uncomparable adjectives"
],
"derived": [
{
"word": "sesquipedalian"
}
],
"etymology_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "ine-pro",
"3": "*ped-"
},
"expansion": "",
"name": "root"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "la",
"3": "sesquipedalis"
},
"expansion": "Latin sesquipedalis",
"name": "bor"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "sesqui",
"3": "pedal",
"t1": "one and a half",
"t2": "foot, of the foot"
},
"expansion": "sesqui- (“one and a half”) + pedal (“foot, of the foot”)",
"name": "prefix"
}
],
"etymology_text": "Borrowed from Latin sesquipedalis; equivalent to sesqui- (“one and a half”) + pedal (“foot, of the foot”).",
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "-"
},
"expansion": "sesquipedal (not comparable)",
"name": "en-adj"
}
],
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "adj",
"senses": [
{
"glosses": [
"Measuring or containing a foot and a half."
],
"tags": [
"not-comparable"
]
}
],
"translations": [
{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "measuring or containing a foot and a half",
"word": "sesquipedale"
},
{
"code": "la",
"lang": "Latin",
"sense": "measuring or containing a foot and a half",
"word": "sēsquipedālis"
}
],
"word": "sesquipedal"
}
{
"categories": [
"English adjectives",
"English countable nouns",
"English entries with incorrect language header",
"English lemmas",
"English nouns",
"English terms borrowed from Latin",
"English terms derived from Latin",
"English terms derived from Proto-Indo-European",
"English terms derived from the Proto-Indo-European root *ped-",
"English terms prefixed with sesqui-",
"English uncomparable adjectives"
],
"etymology_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "ine-pro",
"3": "*ped-"
},
"expansion": "",
"name": "root"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "la",
"3": "sesquipedalis"
},
"expansion": "Latin sesquipedalis",
"name": "bor"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "sesqui",
"3": "pedal",
"t1": "one and a half",
"t2": "foot, of the foot"
},
"expansion": "sesqui- (“one and a half”) + pedal (“foot, of the foot”)",
"name": "prefix"
}
],
"etymology_text": "Borrowed from Latin sesquipedalis; equivalent to sesqui- (“one and a half”) + pedal (“foot, of the foot”).",
"forms": [
{
"form": "sesquipedals",
"tags": [
"plural"
]
}
],
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {},
"expansion": "sesquipedal (plural sesquipedals)",
"name": "en-noun"
}
],
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "noun",
"senses": [
{
"glosses": [
"A long word."
],
"links": [
[
"long",
"long"
],
[
"word",
"word"
]
],
"synonyms": [
{
"word": "sesquipedalian"
}
]
}
],
"word": "sesquipedal"
}
This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-05-20 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-05-02 using wiktextract (1d5a7d1 and 304864d). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.
If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.