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This article lists some of the longest words in the French language.
As in many languages, chemical nomenclature may be used to construct indefinitely long chemical names (if referring to fictional molecules), and therefore is not on this list. The chemical name of titin could be translated, and therefore would be the longest technical word in the French language.
The longest word listed below, hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobique (38 letters) means, ironically, "suffering form the fear (or phobia) of long words". The word is formed from the Latin word sesquipedalia (singular sesquipedalis), which the Ancient Roman poet Horace used in Ars Poetica to describe excessively long words; literally, it means "a foot-and-a-half long".
Like the other adejctives in the list, hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobique can be pluralised by adding the letter s to the end. The adjective interdépartemental (18 letters), which also appears in the list, can be made longer by appending the letters es, which gives its plural, grammatically gendered form.




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Longest words
Longest word in English
Longest word in Romanian
Longest word in Spanish
Longest word in Turkish




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References


Case, Camille (2014). Dictionnaire commenté des phobies (in French). Lulu.com. ISBN 978-1-326-01419-3. OCLC 980437079 – via Google Books.




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