Latin

Adjective

sēsquipedālis m, f ‎(neuter sēsquipedāle); third declension

1. A foot and a half, half a yard (attributive or long)
2. Excessively long (of speeches)

Inflection

Third declension.

Descendants

• English: sesquipedal
• Italian: sesquipedale

References

• sesquipedalis in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• sesquipedalis in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• Félix Gaffiot (1934), “sesquipedalis”, in Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette.