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Ancient Greek
Etymology
From Proto-Indo-European *pedóm, from *ped- (the source of πούς (poús, “foot”)). Cognates include Sanskrit पद (padá, “step, footstep, footprint”), Old Norse fet (“step”), Old Armenian հետ (het, “footprint, track”), and Hittite 𒁉𒂊𒁕𒀭 (pēdan).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /pé.don/ → /ˈpe.ðon/ → /ˈpe.ðon/
Noun
πέδον • (pédon) n (genitive πέδου); second declension
- ground, earth
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Further reading
- “πέδον”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “πέδον”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- πέδον in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- “πέδον”, in Slater, William J. (1969) Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter
- πέδον in Trapp, Erich, et al. (1994–2007) Lexikon zur byzantinischen Gräzität besonders des 9.-12. Jahrhunderts [the Lexicon of Byzantine Hellenism, Particularly the 9th–12th Centuries], Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften
- Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
- Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010) Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN