sesquĭ-pĕdānĕus — Lewis & Short
sesquĭ-pĕdānĕus, a, um, adj.,
I a foot and a half long (more freq. sesquipedalis):
cornua,Plin. 9, 27, 43, § 82.
The corpus record — Latin
sesquipedaneus
sesquipedaneus · adj
a foot and a half long
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Where it lives
- Naturalis Historia 1 · 0.03/10k
What it meant
In the wild
- sesquipedanea Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 9.27
Where it came from
No etymology authority pointer is recorded for this lemma yet — an honest gap, not an omission.
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