celeripes

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Latin

Etymology

From celer (swift) + pēs (foot).

Pronunciation

Adjective

celeripēs (genitive celeripedis); third-declension one-termination adjective

  1. (rare) swift-footed

Declension

Third-declension one-termination adjective.

Synonyms

Descendants

  • English: celeripede
  • French: céléripede

References

  • celeripes”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • celeripes”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • celeripes in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
  • celeripes in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.