floccinaucinihilipilification

Etymology
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A jocular coinage, apparently by pupils at, combining a number of Latin word stems. The word was inspired by a line present in various editions of William Lily's (c. 1468–1522) Latin grammars published around the 17th–19th centuries (including the Eton Latin Grammar), in which some nouns commonly used in the genitive case with some verbs like  and  are listed, which express evaluating something as worthless or as previously mentioned; see the reference.

Pronunciation




Noun

 * 1)  The act or habit of describing or regarding something as unimportant, of having no value or being worthless.

Translations

 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: 把某東西看作是無價值的
 * Dutch:
 * Finnish:
 * German:
 * Latin: floccinaucinihilipilificatio
 * Malay: memperkecil
 * Norwegian: bagatellisering
 * Swedish: bagatellisering, förringning

Trivia

 * Often cited as the longest non-technical word in the English language, being one letter longer than the well-known . It was the longest word ever recorded in Parliament after Conservative MP Jacob Rees-Mogg used it in a 2012 debate, until the record was broken in 2017 by Michael Bryan with the word.