What is the longest Portuguese word?
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The longest word officially registered in a dictionary in 2001 is 'pneumoultramicroscopicossilicovulcanoconiótico'. It describes an individual who suffers of a lung desease caused by the inhalation of volcanic ash, although the name of the desease in Portuguese is simply 'silicose' or 'silicosis' in English.
Regarding this, what does Donaudampfschifffahrtselektrizitätenhauptbetriebswerkbauunterbeamtengesellschaft mean?
At 80 letters, the longest word ever composed in German is "Donaudampfschifffahrtselektrizitätenhauptbetriebswerkbauunterbeamtengesellschaft," meaning, the "Association for Subordinate Officials of the Head Office Management of the Danube Steamboat Electrical Services." But it's a coinage of strung together more for
Secondly, what is the longest word in the world that takes 3 hours to say?
A man has been recorded spending more than three hours to pronounce what is supposedly the longest word in the English language. 'Methionylthreonylthreonylglutaminylarginyl isoleucine' is the chemical name of 'titin' (also known as 'connectin') - the largest known protein. It has 189,819 letters.
The longest words in the dictionary are:
- antidisestablishmentarianism - opposition to the disestablishment of the Church of England - 28 letters.
- floccinaucinihilipilification - the estimation of something as worthless - 29 letters.
- pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis - a supposed lung disease - 45 letters.