The corpus record — Latin

sesquipedalis

sesquipedalis · adj

Of a foot and a half; one foot and a half

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Where it lives

De Arte Poetica liber 1 · 3.24/10k
De bello Gallico 1 · 0.19/10k

What it meant

sesquĭ-pĕdālis — Lewis & Short

sesquĭ-pĕdālis, e, adj.

I Of a foot and a half; one foot and a half in length, breadth, or diameter, Cato, R. R. 15, 2: tigna, Caes. B. G. 4, 17: talea, Col. 5, 9, 3: mensura, id. 9, 15, 4; 11, 2, 18; 11, 3, 48; Vitr. 5, 10; 10, 15, 4.—

II Poet. transf., to denote excessive length, half a yard long: dentes, Cat. 97, 5: verba, Hor. A. P. 97; Mart. 7, 14, 10.

In the wild

sesquipedalia Julius Caesar, De bello Gallico 4.17.3
sesquipedalia Horace, De Arte Poetica liber 97

Where it came from

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