What is the longest Greek word ever to appear in written form? Here it is:
了凌留隆凌竜亮留凌竜了留凌粒留了竜凌虜留僚旅凌了竜旅留僚凌隆旅亮凌旅亮亮留凌旅了旅凌了旅留凌亮竜 了旅凌虜留留虜竜亮竜僚凌虜旅了竜旅虜凌凌留凌竜旅竜留了竜虜凌僚凌凌旅留了了旅隆凌 虜旅粒虜了凌竜了竜旅凌了留粒畤確刃旅留旅凌硫留侶留粒留僚凌竜粒ﾎ. (Aristophanes, Ecclesiazusae 1170). This insaneand rather well-knownword is 172 characters long! Kenneth M. De Luca comments about how Aristophanes (ca. 392 B.C.) created this word: In this scene Blepyrus is offered a meal that is a composite of an enormous variety of foods. The word that Aristophanes uses to describe it calls our attention to the monstrous character of this meal. It is the longest word we know in Ancient Greek literature, as the names for a host of edibles are merged into one.

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Notes

Kenneth M. De Luca, Aristophanes Male and Female Revolutions: A Reading of Aristophanes Knights and Assemblywomen (Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2005), 123-124.

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