pes
Catalan
Etymology
From Old Occitan pes, from Vulgar Latin *pēsum, from Latin pensum.
Derived terms
Related terms
Further reading
- “pes” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
Czech
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /pɛs/
audio (file) - Rhymes: -ɛs
Declension
Antonyms
- (male dog): fena
Derived terms
Derived terms
- hlídací pes
- honicí pes
- chování řeznického psa
- mnoho psů, zajícova smrt
Further reading
Etymology 2
Latin
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pēs hūmānus (human foot)
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pēs equī (foot of a horse)
Etymology
From Proto-Indo-European *pṓds (compare Sanskrit पद् (pád), Ancient Greek πούς (poús) and Old English fōt, English foot).
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /peːs/
Audio (Classical) (file)
Noun
pēs m (genitive pedis); third declension
- a foot, in its senses as
- (anatomy) a human foot
- … ne manus, nec pedes, nec alia membra …
- … not the hands, not the feet, and not the other limbs …
- (zoology) any equivalent body part of an animal, including hooves, paws, etc.
- (units of measure) any of various units of length notionally based on the adult human foot, especially (historical) the Roman foot.
- (poetry) a metrical foot: the basic unit of metered poetry
- (geography) the base of a mountain
- (furniture) the bottom of a leg of a table, chair, stool, etc.
- (anatomy) a human foot
- (figuratively) a place to tread one's foot: territory, ground, soil
- (nautical) a rope attached to a sail in order to set
- (music) tempo, pace, time
- (botany) the pedicel or stalk of a fruit
Declension
Third-declension noun.
Case | Singular | Plural |
---|---|---|
Nominative | pēs | pedēs |
Genitive | pedis | pedum |
Dative | pedī | pedibus |
Accusative | pedem | pedēs |
Ablative | pede | pedibus |
Vocative | pēs | pedēs |
Hyponyms
- (metrical foot): trochaeus; pes dissyllbus or disyllbus, pes bibrevis, choreus, jambus, spondeus, spondius, spondeos (2-syllable feet); pes trisyllabus, amphibrachus, amphibrachys, amphimacrus, dactylus, extensipes, molossus, pes anapaestus, pes antanapaestus, pes antibacchius, pes bacchius, pes creticus, pes hippius (3-syllable feet); pes tetrasyllbus, antispastus, chorjambus, dichoreus, dijambus, dispondeus, epitritus, paeon, proceleumaticus, proceleusmaticus (4-syllable feet); pes pentasyllbus, dochmius, mesobrachys, mesomacros, pariambodes, probrachys, pes amoebaeus, pes antamoebaeus, pes orthius (5-syllable feet)
Meronyms
- (unit of length): decempeda (10 pedes)
See also
- pede tellūrem pulsō
- pedem effero
- pedem fero
- pedem refero
- pedes navales
- si in fundo pedem posuisses
- a pedibus usque ad caput
- alterno pede terram quatere
Derived terms
- adversipedes
- aenipes
- aeripes
- agipes
- alipes
- anguipes
- antepes
- avipes
- bipeda
- bipēs
- capripes
- celeripēs
- centipeda
- centipes
- citipes
- compes
- cornipes
- decempeda
- decempeda
- fissipes
- flammipes
- flexipes
- gracilipes
- hircipes
- ignipes
- lanipes
- latipes
- lentipes
- levipes
- longipes
- loripes
- milepeda
- mollipēs
- multipeda
- octipes
- palmipes
- peda
- pedālis
- pedāneus
- pedārius
- pedātim
- pedātūra
- pedātus
- pedeplana
- pedepressim
- pedēs
- pedetemptim
- pedica
- pedicinus
- pediculus
- pedisequus
- pedō
- pedocucullus
- pedūlis
- pedum
- planipes
- plumipes
- properipes
- quadrupēs
- remipes
- segnipes
- semipes
- septipes
- serpentipes
- sesquipes
- solidipes
- sonipes
- stapēs
- suppes
- tardipes
- tremipes
- uncipes
- unipes
- volucripes
Descendants
- Aromanian: pezã
- Asturian: pie
- Corsican: pede
- Dalmatian: pi
- English: pes
- Esperanto: piedo
- Extremaduran: pie
- Franco-Provençal: pied
- Old French: pié
- Friulian: pît
- Gallurese: pedi
- Ido: pedo
- Interlingua: pede
- Istriot: peîe, pèie
- Italian: piede
- Leonese: pía
- Ligurian: pê
- Mirandese: pie
- Mozarabic: péde
- Navarro-Aragonese: pie, pied
- Aragonese: piet
- Neapolitan: pere
- Norman: pid, pyid
- Old Occitan: pe
- Old Portuguese: pee
- Old Spanish: pie
- Spanish: pie
- Piedmontese: pe
- Romanian: piez
- Romansch: pe
- Sassarese: pedi
- Sardinian: pee, pei
- Sicilian: pedi, peri
- Venetian: pìe, piè, pè
References
- pes in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- pes in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- pes in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
- pes in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
- Carl Meissner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
- to begin a journey (on foot, on horseback, by land): iter ingredi (pedibus, equo, terra)
- to go on foot: pedibus ire
- to trample under foot: pedibus obterere, conculcare
- to have the gout: ex pedibus laborare, pedibus aegrum esse
- to vote for some one's motion: discedere (pedibus), ire in alicuius sententiam (Liv. 23. 10)
- to serve in the cavalry, infantry: equo, pedibus merere (Liv. 27. 11)
- (ambiguous) a hand-to-hand engagement ensued: tum pes cum pede collatus est (Liv. 28. 2)
- (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
- (ambiguous) to never set foot out of doors: domo pedem non efferre
- (ambiguous) to cross the threshold: pedem limine efferre
- (ambiguous) a hand-to-hand engagement ensued: tum pes cum pede collatus est (Liv. 28. 2)
- (ambiguous) hand to hand: collato pede (Liv. 6. 12)
- (ambiguous) to retire (without turning one's back on the enemy): pedem referre
- to begin a journey (on foot, on horseback, by land): iter ingredi (pedibus, equo, terra)
- pes in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
- pes in William Smith et al., editor (1890) A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin
Middle English
Old French
Noun
pes f (oblique plural pes, nominative singular pes, nominative plural pes)
- Alternative form of pais (“peace”)
- circa 1250, Marie de France, Guigemar
- Va t'en de ci ! Lai me aveir pes.
- Go, leave me! Let me have peace.
- Va t'en de ci ! Lai me aveir pes.
- circa 1250, Marie de France, Guigemar
Slovene
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Velik bel pes - A large white dog
Etymology
From Proto-Slavic *pьsъ.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /pə́s/
Noun
pə̏s m anim (female equivalent psíca)
Tok Pisin
Noun
pes
- (anatomy) face
- 1989, Buk Baibel long Tok Pisin, Port Moresby: Bible Society of Papua New Guinea, 3:19:
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