Fun:Lopadotemachoselachogaleokranioleipsanodrimhypotrimmatosilphiokarabomelitokatakechymenokichlepikossyphophattoperisteralektryonoptekephalliokigklopeleiolagoiosiraiobaphetraganopterygon
“”[1167] And you others, let your light steps too keep time.
[1168] Very soon we'll be eating [1170] Lopadotemachoselachogaleokranioleipsanodrimhypotrimmatosilphiokarabomelitokatakechymenokichlepikossyphophattoperisteralektryonoptekephalliokigklopeleiolagoiosiraiobaphetraganopterygon. [1175] Come, quickly, seize hold of a plate, snatch up a cup, and let's run to secure a place at table. The rest will have their jaws at work by this time. |
—Assemblywomen in Aristophanes' play, Ecclesiazusae |
Lopadotemachoselachogaleokranioleipsanodrimhypotrimmatosilphiokarabomelitokatakechymenokichlepikossyphophattoperisteralektryonoptekephalliokigklopeleiolagoiosiraiobaphetraganopterygon (greek:λοπαδοτεμαχοσελαχογαλεοκρανιολειψανοδριμυποτριμματοσιλφιοκαραβομελιτοκατακεχυμενοκιχλεπικοσσυφοφαττοπεριστεραλεκτρυονοπτοκεφαλλιοκιγκλοπελειολαγῳοσιραιοβαφητραγανοπτερύγων) is an extremly big, weird, and delicious fictional dish imagined by Aristophanes in his comedy Assemblywomen. This dish is supposed to be very difficult to prepare, as it contains many unusual ingredients.Yes, yes, this is a very long word. Aristophanes was undoubtablay very hangry ungry creative while inventing this word, or maybe he was influenced by Satan. Anyway, the person who is able to pronounce Lopadotemachoselachogaleokranioleipsanodrimhypotrimmatosilphiokarabomelitokatakechymenokichlepikossyphophattoperisteralektryonoptekephalliokigklopeleiolagoiosiraiobaphetraganopterygon is a goat, just like Aristophanes! It is still more reasonable than titin.
How to prepare Lopadotemachoselachogaleokranioleipsanodrimhypotrimmatosilphiokarabomelitokatakechymenokichlepikossyphophattoperisteralektryonoptekephalliokigklopeleiolagoiosiraiobaphetraganopterygon?[edit]
Unfortunatly, the exact recipe of the Lopadotemachoselachogaleokranioleipsanodrimhypotrimmatosilphiokarabomelitokatakechymenokichlepikossyphophattoperisteralektryonoptekephalliokigklopeleiolagoiosiraiobaphetraganopterygon is unknown. However based on the etymology, we can have a relatively good idea about it's ingredients:
- λοπᾰ́ς (“dish, meal”)
- τέμᾰχος (“fish slice”)
- σέλαχος (“shark, ray”)
- γᾰλεός (“dogfish, small shark”)
- κρᾱνῐ́ον (“head”)
- λείψᾰνον (“remnant”)
- δρῑμῠ́ς (“sharp, pungent”)
- ῠ̔πότριμμᾰ (“generally sharp-tasting dish of several ingredients grated and pounded together”)
- σίλφιον (“laserwort”)
- κᾱ́ρᾰβος (“crab, beetle, or crayfish”)
- μέλῐ (“honey”)
- κᾰτᾰχέω (“I pour over”)
- κῐ́χλη (“wrasse, thrush”)
- ἐπῐ́ (“upon, on top of”)
- κόσσῠφος (“a kind of sea-fish or blackbird”)
- φάττᾰ (“wood pigeon”)
- περῐστερά (“domestic pigeon”)
- ᾰ̓λεκτρυών (“chicken”)
- ὀπτός (“roasted, baked”)
- κεφᾰ́λῐον (“diminutive of "head"”)
- κίγκλος (“dabchick”)
- πέλειᾰ (“pigeon”)
- λᾰγῷος (“of the hare”)
- σῐ́ραιον (“new wine boiled down”)
- βᾰφή (“dipping”)
- τρᾰγᾰνός (“crunchy”)
- πτέρυξ (“wing, fin”).
This is a combinasion of very weird and unusual ingredients, which makes the Lopadotemachoselachogaleokranioleipsanodrimhypotrimmatosilphiokarabomelitokatakechymenokichlepikossyphophattoperisteralektryonoptekephalliokigklopeleiolagoiosiraiobaphetraganopterygon even more interesting. If you want to prepare a Lopadotemachoselachogaleokranioleipsanodrimhypotrimmatosilphiokarabomelitokatakechymenokichlepikossyphophattoperisteralektryonoptekephalliokigklopeleiolagoiosiraiobaphetraganopterygon, than good luck!
External links[edit]
- See the Wikipedia article on Lopadotemachoselachogaleokranioleipsanodrimhypotrimmatosilphiokarabomelitokatakechymenokichlepikossyphophattoperisteralektryonoptekephalliokigklopeleiolagoiosiraiobaphetraganopterygon.
- λοπαδοτεμαχοσελαχογαλεοκρανιολειψανοδριμυποτριμματοσιλφιοκαραβομελιτοκατακεχυμενοκιχλεπικοσσυφοφαττοπεριστεραλεκτρυονοπτοκεφαλλιοκιγκλοπελειολαγῳοσιραιοβαφητραγανοπτερύγων Wiktionary entry on this word