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Ancient Greek
Etymology
From Proto-Indo-European *pṓds . Cognates include Mycenaean Greek 𐀡 ( po ) (dat. 𐀡𐀆 ( po-de /podei/ ) ), Latin pēs , Sanskrit पद् ( pad ) , Old Armenian ոտն ( otn ) and հետ ( het ) , Gothic 𐍆𐍉𐍄𐌿𐍃 ( fōtus ) and Old English fōt (English foot ).[ 1]
Pronunciation
IPA (key ) : /pǔːs/ → /pus/ → /pus/
Noun
πούς • (poús ) m (genitive ποδός ) ; third declension
foot
leg
( unit of measure ) Greek foot or pous , the ancient Greek and Byzantine unit of length originally based upon the length of a shod foot
Declension
Derived terms
Descendants
Byzantine Greek: πόδιν ( pódin ) ( from diminutive πόδιον )
→ English: -pod , pous
References
Further reading
“πούς ”, in Liddell & Scott (1940 ) A Greek–English Lexicon , Oxford: Clarendon Press
“πούς ”, in Liddell & Scott (1889 ) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon , New York: Harper & Brothers
“πούς ”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891 ) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges , New York: Harper and Brothers
πούς in Bailly, Anatole (1935 ) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français , Paris: Hachette
Bauer, Walter et al. (2001 ) A Greek–English Lexicon of the New Testament and Other Early Christian Literature , Third edition, Chicago: University of Chicago Press
πούς in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924 ) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition , Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
“πούς ”, in Slater, William J. (1969 ) Lexicon to Pindar , Berlin: Walter de Gruyter
G4228 in Strong, James (1979 ) Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible
πούς in Trapp, Erich, et al. (1994–2007 ) Lexikon zur byzantinischen Gräzität besonders des 9.-12. Jahrhunderts [the Lexicon of Byzantine Hellenism, Particularly the 9th–12th Centuries ], Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften
Woodhouse, S. C. (1910 ) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language , London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited . foot idem, page 333.leg idem, page 484.rope idem, page 721.sheet idem, page 764.step idem, page 815.