Home › Words › S › sesquipedalsesquipedalsesquipedal means measuring or containing a foot and a half.Among words judged in Lexicurio's Arena, sesquipedal ranks #3,411 of 42,747 for Qualifying.EtymologyBorrowed from Latin sesquipedalis; equivalent to sesqui- (“one and a half”) + pedal (“foot, of the foot”).adjMeasuring or containing a foot and a half.nounA long word.Definitions & examples from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 3.0).