Longest word used by
William Shakespeare:
honorificabilitudinitatibus
This
Shakespearian word comes from
Love's Labour's Lost
V.i. Shakespeare did not
coin this word,
however.
It is
actually the
ablative plural of the
Latin
honorificabilitudinitas, which is an extension of
honorificabilis meaning 'honorableness'. It first
occurs in
English in
1599, used by
Thomas Nashe.