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Ancient Greek
Etymology
From Proto-Indo-European *pṓds, like πέδον (pédon) and πέζα (péza). The same semantics are found in Latin pedica (“shackle”), impediō (“to hinder”) and Proto-Germanic *feturaz (“fetter”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /pé.dɛː/ → /ˈpe.ði/ → /ˈpe.ði/
Noun
πέδη • (pédē) f (genitive πέδης); first declension
- fetter, shackle
- anklet, bangle
- Synonym: περῐσφῠ́ρῐον (perisphúrion)
- (figuratively) of the robe of Nessus or Agamemnon
Inflection
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References
- “πέδη”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “πέδη”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- πέδη in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010) Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN