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Honorificabilitudinitatibus
From Anarchopedia
Honorificabilitudinitatibus [Hono-rifica-bili-tudi-nita-tibus] is the ablative plural of the[1] medieval Latin word honorificabilitudinitas,[2] which means "in the condition of being loaded with honors."[3] It is used with this meaning by a comic figure named Costard in parody of pretentious pedantry[4] in William Shakespeare's play Love's Labour's Lost.[5]
It consists of 27 letters and the longest word Shakespeare ever used.[6]
This word appears in Act 5, Scene 1:[7]
- "I marvel thy master hath not eaten thee for a word;
for thou art not so long by the head as
honorificabilitudinitatibus: thou art easier
swallowed than a flap-dragon." - Costard, Love's Labour's Lost, Act V, Scene 1
The word was also used on page 234 in Nashe's Lenten Stuff (printed in 1599) by English novelist ands satirist Thomas Nashe.[8]
References[edit]
- ↑ The Riverside Shakespeare, pp 234, Houghton Mifflin Books, 1997, ISBN 9780395858226
- ↑ Honorificabilitudinity Wordsmith.org
- ↑ Don Gifford, Robert J. Seidman, Ulysses Annotated: Notes for James Joyce's Ulysses, pp 244, University of California Press, 1988, ISBN 9780520067455
- ↑ Hugh Macrae Richmond, Shakespeare's Theatre: A Dictionary of His Stage Context, pp 485, Continuum International Publishing Group, 2005, ISBN 9780826477767
- ↑ Michael Keevak, Sexual Shakespeare: Forgery, Authorship, Portraiture, pp 74, Wayne State University Press, 2001, ISBN 9780814329757
- ↑ Custodes, Page 2
- ↑ HONORIFICABILITUDINITATIBUS World Wide Words
- ↑ Parker Woodward, Early Life of Lord Bacon, pp 84, Kessinger Publishing, 2003, ISBN 9780766141247
