Honorificabilitudinitatibus

Honorificabilitudinitatibus is a medium- Latin word that William Shakespeare in his comedy Love's Labour's Lost used and has gained in the sequence in the English-speaking world a certain celebrity.

The word appears in the first scene of the fifth act. Costard ( German and skull ), a teasing wag, thus satirizing the stilted and penetrated by Latinisms language of the schoolmaster Holofernes:

The shape honorificabilitudinitatibus ablative plural of the word is the honorificabilitudinitas, which means " honesty ", broken down into morphemes literally ' ability to gain honor. " At 27 letters, it is the longest word in the works of Shakespeare. Samuel Johnson's Dictionary of the English Language (1755 ) introduced it in the anglicized form honorificabilitudinity 1755 to be the longest word of the entire English language.

Also, since it appears only once in Shakespeare corpus, so it is a hapax legomenon, the word to the subject of speculation by some so-called anti - Stratfordianer was. The question of whether Shakespeare is indeed the author of the works attributed to him, employs the English philology since the 17th century - anti- Stratfordians is in this discussion is the collective term for those critics who question the authorship of Shakespeare in question. A first formulated in 1856 and still often rumored, though very dubious theory holds Francis Bacon attributed to the author of the Shakespeare plays. Sir Edwin Durning - Lawrence was looking for this assumption in 1910 in his book, Bacon is Shakespeare by claiming to prove that honorificabilitudinitatibus is actually an anagram, encrypted with the Bacon, the piece was signed. The plaintext is by Lawrence Durning hi ludi, F. Baconis nati, tuiti orbi, Latin for " These pieces, sired by F. Bacon, are preserved in the world ." The absurdity of this theory has since been widely parodied, including in 1970 by American author John Sladek, who arranged the letters to the word chain I, B. Ionsonii, uurit [ writ ] a lift'd batch and thus "proved " that the author of Shakespeare's pieces rather Ben Jonson was.

In fact, the word is not a word created by Shakespeare. According to the Oxford English Dictionary, it is first attested in a written in Latin document from the year 1187. Dante Alighieri led honorificabilitudinitate in his voice and style known union 's De vulgari eloquentia ( 1303-05 ) as an example of a particularly long word. In the terms used by Shakespeare Ablativform it also appears in a Latin passage of the 1549 written on Scots application The Complaynt of Scotland; the first evidence for the word in a font in the English language, according to OED dates from 1598; the emergence of Love's Labour's Lost is usually dated around 1595.

James Joyce took up the word in Ulysses with reference to Shakespeare on in one of his many portmanteau passages. Scylla and Charybdis In the chapter it says:

"Like John O'Gaunt his name is dear to him, as dear as the coat and crest he toadied for, on a bend sable a spear or steeled argent, honorificabilitudinitatibus, dearer than his glory of greatest shake scene in the country. "

In the cartoon series Pinky and the Brain appeared in episode 8 of the first season ( Napoleon Brainaparte, 1995) honorificabilitudinitatibus on: In the credits, the word is used as an example of the regular there told long, incomprehensible words.

• Linguistic record
• English Language
• William Shakespeare