Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 3 Jan 2003 15:48:43 +0000 | From | Hugo Mills <> | Subject | Re: Nvidia and its choice to read the GPL "differently" |
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On Fri, Jan 03, 2003 at 03:25:02PM +0000, Andrew Walrond wrote: > Sesquipedalian comes from Latin sesquipedalis, "a foot and a half long, > hence inordinately long," from sesqui, "one half more, half as much > again" + pes, ped-, "a foot."
From the OED, sesquipedalian (n & v):
"Of words and expressions (after Horace's sesquipedalia verba 'words a foot and a half long', A.P. 97)"
Hugo.
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