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Latin
Etymology
From pedes ("walker, foot soldier" stem-form pedit-) + -ter, alternative form of -tris.
Pronunciation
Adjective
pedester (feminine pedestris, neuter pedestre); third-declension three-termination adjective; pedestris sometimes masculine
- walking, pedestrian, on foot
- of infantry, foot soldiers
- prosaic, commonplace
Declension
Third-declension three-termination adjective.
Descendants
References
- “pedester”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “pedester”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- pedester in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
- travel by land, on foot: iter terrestre, pedestre