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The longest word in Italian

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What is the longest word in Italian? Here is the answer below:

Explanation of each part of the word

The longest Italian word is a 26-letter-long :

• Precipitevolissimevolmente (It means "in a way like someone acts very hastily")

• It is formed by subsequent addition of postfixes to the original root:

• • precipitevole: "hasty"
  • precipitevolissimo: "very hasty"
  • precipitevolissimevole: "[of someone/something] that acts very hastily",
  • precipitevolissimevolmente: "in a way like someone/something that acts very hastily"

The word is never used in every-day language but it is an official part of Italian language.

Others examples

Other words can be created with a similar (and grammatically correct) mechanism starting from a longer root, winding up with a longer word.

• sovramagnificentissimamente. (cited by Dante Alighieri in De vulgari eloquentia), 27 letters, "in a way that is more than magnificent by far" (archaic);

• incontrovertibilissimamente. 27 letters, "in a way that is very difficult to falsify";

• particolareggiatissimamente. 27 letters, "in an extremely detailed way";

• anticostituzionalissimamente. 28 letters, "in a way that strongly violates the constitution".

Translations in different languages

ENGLISH
anticostituzionalissimamente (This word has 26 letters)
Translation : In a way that strongly violates the constitution

ITALIAN
anticostituzionalissimamente (Questa parola ha 26 lettere)
Traduzione: In un modo che viola fortemente la costituzione

BRAZILIAN PORTUGUESE
anticostituzionalissimamente (Essa palavra tem 26 letras)
Tradução : Em uma maneira que viola fortemente a constituição

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