The story
- Latin · borrowed fromsesquipedalis
- English todaysesquipedal
Borrowed from Latin sesquipedalis; equivalent to sesqui- (“one and a half”) + pedal (“foot, of the foot”).
Words from the same roots
Latinsesquipedalis all →
sesquipedaliansesquipedalianism
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.