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Latin
Etymology
From Ancient Greek κρηπίς (krēpís), compare crepida (“sandal; sole”).
Noun
crepīdō f (genitive crepīdinis); third declension
- basis, foundation, pedestal, base, ground
- a raised causeway, sidewalk
c. 100, Juvenal, Satires, 1.5, lines 1-11:Si te propositi nondum pudet atque eadem est mens,
ut bona summa putes aliena vivere quadra,
si potes illa pati quae nec Sarmentus iniquas
Caesaris ad mensas nec vilis Gabba tulisset,
quamvis iurato metuam tibi credere testi.
Ventre nihil novi frugalius; hoc tamen ipsum
defecisse puta, quod inani sufficit alvo:
nulla crepido vacat? Nusquam pons et tegetis pars
dimidia brevior? Tantine iniuria cenae,
tam ieiuna fames, cum possit honestius illic
et tremere et sordes farris mordere canini?- If you are not yet ashamed of your idea and still have the same intention,
so that you think the highest good is to live by someone else's dining table,
if you can bear what neither Sarmentus
at Caesar's unequal meals nor the worthless Gabba would have endured,
I will be afraid to believe you no matter how a witness swore it.
I have known nothing more easily satisfied than the stomach; you should think that that
has become deficient which suffices for an empty belly:
is there no free sidewalk ? No bridge and part of a mat
shorter than half? Is that insult of a dinner worth so much,
is your hunger so strong, when one could more honorably
both tremble and chew dogs' dirty coarse bread?
- embankment, dam, dike
- shore, bank
- a projecting ledge or rim, edge, brim, brink
- a projecting rock or hill, spur
Declension
Third-declension noun.
References
- “crepido”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “crepido”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- crepido 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)
- crepido in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- “crepīdō” on page 457 of the Oxford Latin Dictionary (1st ed., 1968–82)