pes

See also: PES, PEs, pés, pès, pês, peš, p.es., pěś, and пес

English

Etymology

From Latin pēs (foot).

Noun

pes (plural pedes)

  1. the foot of a human
  2. the hoof of a quadruped
  3. clubfoot or talipes
  4. (music) a neume representing two notes ascending

Synonyms

Anagrams


Catalan

Etymology

From Old Occitan pes, from Vulgar Latin *pēsum, from Latin pensum.

Pronunciation

  • (Balearic) IPA(key): /ˈpəs/
  • (Central) IPA(key): /ˈpɛs/
  • (Valencian) IPA(key): /ˈpes/

Noun

pes m (plural pesos)

  1. weight (clarification of this definition is needed)

Derived terms

Further reading


Cornish

Alternative forms

Noun

pes f (singulative pesen)

  1. (Revived Late Cornish) peas

Czech

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /pɛs/
  • (file)
  • Rhymes: -ɛs

Etymology 1

From Proto-Slavic *pьsъ.

pes (a Labrador)

Noun

pes m anim

  1. (mammals) dog
  2. male dog
  3. scoundrel, bad person
Declension
Antonyms
Derived terms

Further reading

  • pes in Příruční slovník jazyka českého, 1935–1957
  • pes in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého, 1960–1971, 1989

Etymology 2

Noun

pes

  1. genitive plural of peso

Alternative forms


Friulian

Alternative forms

  • peš (alternative orthography)

Etymology

From Latin piscis, piscem.

Noun

pes m (plural pes)

  1. fish

Latin

pēs hūmānus (human foot)
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/
  • (file)

Noun

pēs m (genitive pedis); third declension

  1. a foot, in its senses as
    1. (anatomy) a human foot
      … ne manus, nec pedes, nec alia membra …
      … not the hands, not the feet, and not the other limbs …
    2. (zoology) any equivalent body part of an animal, including hooves, paws, etc.
    3. (units of measure) any of various units of length notionally based on the adult human foot, especially (historical) the Roman foot.
    4. (poetry) a metrical foot: the basic unit of metered poetry
    5. (geography) the base of a mountain
    6. (furniture) the bottom of a leg of a table, chair, stool, etc.
  2. (figuratively) a place to tread one's foot: territory, ground, soil
  3. (nautical) a rope attached to a sail in order to set
  4. (music) tempo, pace, time
  5. (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

See also

Derived terms

Descendants

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
  • 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

Noun

pes

  1. Alternative form of pese

Old French

Etymology

From Latin pax.

Noun

pes f (oblique plural pes, nominative singular pes, nominative plural pes)

  1. Alternative form of pais (peace)

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *pьsъ.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /pɛs/

Noun

pes m (Cyrillic spelling пес)

  1. (Kajkavian) dog

Synonyms


Slovak

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *pьsъ.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈpɛs/

Noun

pes m (genitive singular psa, nominative plural psi, psy, genitive plural psov)

  1. dog

Declension

Derived terms

Further reading

  • pes in Slovak dictionaries at korpus.sk

Slovene

Velik bel pes - A large white dog

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *pьsъ.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /pə́s/

Noun

pə̏s m anim (female equivalent psíca)

  1. dog
    Imamo tri pse.
    We have three dogs.
    Na sprehod grem s svojim psom.
    I'm going on a walk with my dog.
    Synonym: kȗža

Inflection

Masculine anim., hard o-stem
nom. sing. pes
gen. sing. psa
singular dual plural
nominative pes psa psi
accusative psa psa pse
genitive psa psov psov
dative psu psoma psom
locative psu psih psih
instrumental psom psoma psi

Spanish

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /pes/
  • Homophone: pez (non-Castilian)

Noun

pes

  1. plural of pe

Tok Pisin

Etymology

From English face.

Noun

pes

  1. (anatomy) face
    • 1989, Buk Baibel long Tok Pisin, Port Moresby: Bible Society of Papua New Guinea, 3:19:
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Torres Strait Creole

Etymology 1

From English face.

Noun

pes

  1. face

Etymology 2

Noun

pes

  1. (eastern dialect) a ripe coconut

Usage notes

Pes is the fifth stage of coconut growth. It is preceded by kopespes and followed by u.

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