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Latin
Etymology
From pēs, pedis (“foot”) + -icus (“pertaining to”, adjectival suffix), of which the feminine form was substantivised.
Pronunciation
Noun
pedica f (genitive pedicae); first declension
- shackle, fetter
- snare
Declension
First-declension noun.
Derived terms
Descendants
References
- “pedica”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “pedica”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- pedica 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)
- pedica in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- “pedica”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers