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English
Etymology 1
Pronunciation
Noun
pedes (uncountable)
- (medicine, slang) pediatrics
Etymology 2
Pronunciation
Noun
pedes
- plural of pes
Anagrams
Estonian
Noun
pedes
- inessive singular of pede
Galician
Verb
pedes
- (reintegrationist norm) second-person singular present indicative of pedir
Latin
Etymology
From pēs (“foot”) + -es (“-faring”), from eō (“I fare, go”). Compare āles, eques, caeles.
Pronunciation
Noun
pedes m (genitive peditis); third declension
- walker (one who walks)
- foot soldier, infantryman, infantry
- (Late Latin, chess) pawn
Declension
Third-declension noun.
Noun
pedēs m
- nominative/accusative/vocative plural of pēs (“foot”)
Adjective
pedes (genitive peditis); third-declension one-termination adjective
- on foot
Derived terms
See also
References
- “pedes”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “pedes”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- pedes 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)
- pedes in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
- (ambiguous) to fall at some one's feet: ad pedes alicuius accidere
- (ambiguous) to throw oneself at some one's feet: ad pedes alicuius se proicere, se abicere, procumbere, se prosternere
- (ambiguous) to prostrate oneself before a person: ad pedes alicuius iacēre, stratum esse (stratum iacēre)
- (ambiguous) to fail to see what lies before one: quod ante pedes est or positum est, non videre
Portuguese
Verb
pedes
- second-person singular present indicative of pedir
Serbo-Croatian
Numeral
pedes (Cyrillic spelling педес)
- (colloquial) fifty
- Synonym: (standard) pedèsēt