fulcipedia

From fulciō (“to prop up”) +‎ pēs (“foot”).

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ful.kiˈpe.di.a/,
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ful.t͡ʃiˈpe.di.a/,

fulcipedia f (genitive fulcipediae); first declension

1. (hapax) The meaning of this term is uncertain. Possibilities include:
   1. 'propfoot, of a drunken woman, who needs support', as defined in the Lewis and Short Latin Dictionary
   2. a woman 'standing on her dignity', according to the Oxford Latin Dictionary
   3. 'high-heeled hussy', as rendered in Michael Heseltine's 1913 Loeb Classical Library translation
   • c. 27 CE – 66 CE, Petronius, Satyricon 75:

     Puerum bāsiāvī frūgālissimum, non propter fōrmam, sed quia frūgī est: decem partēs dīcit, librum ab oculō legit, thraecium sibi dē diāriīs fēcit, arcisellium dē suō parāvit et duās trullās. Nōn est dignus quem in oculīs feram? Sed Fortūnāta vetat. Ita tibi vidētur, fulcipedia? Suādeō, bonum tuum concoquās, milva, et mē nōn faciās ringentem, amasiuncula: aliōquīn experīris cerebrum meum.

     I kissed the virtuous boy, not because of his looks, but because he's worthy: he says the multiplication of ten, reads a book from sight, got himself a Thracian suit of armour from his daily allowance, bought a round-backed chair from his own money and two ladles. Is he not worthy to hold dear? But Fortunata is against it. Do you see it that way, fulcipedia? I advise you to put up with your good life, she-kite, and not make me angry, dear: otherwise you're testing my brain.

First-declension noun.

• fulciō
• fulcrum

• “fulcipedia”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• fulcipedia in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• fulcipedia in the Oxford Latin Dictionary, Oxford 1968