pes
English
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /peɪ̯s/
- Rhymes: -eɪs
- Homophone: pace
Noun
pes (plural pedes)
Synonyms
- (neume): podatus
Catalan
Etymology
From Old Catalan pes, from Latin pensum.
Pronunciation
Derived terms
- contrapès
- fer el pes
- pes gall
- pes lleuger
- pes mosca
- pes pesant
- pes ploma
- pes semipesat
- pes wèlter
- sobrepès
- sobrepesca
Related terms
References
- “pes” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
- “pes” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.
Czech
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [ˈpɛs]
audio (file) - Hyphenation: pes
- Rhymes: -ɛs
Declension
Antonyms
- (male dog): fena
Derived terms
Derived terms
- hlídací pes
- honicí pes
- chování řeznického psa
- mnoho psů, zajícova smrt
- pejsánek
- pejsek
- psí
- psoun
- starého psa novým kouskům nenaučíš
Further reading
Etymology 2
See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
Friulian
Alternative forms
- peš (alternative spelling)
Indonesian
Etymology
From Dutch pest, from Middle French peste (whence French peste), ultimately from Latin pestis.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [ˈpɛs]
- Hyphenation: pès
Further reading
- “pes” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Language Development and Fostering Agency — Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic Indonesia, 2016.
Latin

pēs hūmānus (human foot)

pēs equī (foot of a horse)
Etymology
From Proto-Italic *pets, from Proto-Indo-European *pṓds (compare Sanskrit पद् (pád), Ancient Greek πούς (poús) and Old English fōt, whence English foot).
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /peːs/, [peːs̠]
- (Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /pes/, [pɛs]
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 …
- 8 CE, Ovid, Fasti 6.395-397:
- Forte revertēbar fēstīs Vestālibus illa [...].
hūc pede mātrōnam vīdī dēscendere nūdō.- It so happened that I was returning from the festival of Vesta [...]. Here I saw a matron coming down barefoot.
(Literally, in the ablative singular: “pede nūdō” or “with bare foot.” Roman matrons walked barefoot to honor Vesta (mythology) during the Vestalia.)
- It so happened that I was returning from the festival of Vesta [...]. Here I saw a matron coming down barefoot.
- Forte revertēbar fēstīs Vestālibus illa [...].
- (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
- 8 CE – 12 CE, Ovid, Tristia 1.15-16:
- vāde, liber, verbīsque meīs loca grāta salūtā:
contingam certē quō licet illā pede!- Go, [my] book, and greet with my words [those] beloved places: at least I shall reach [them] with the ‘foot’ that is allowed!
(The exiled poet puns that the metrical “feet” of his poem shall go where his own “feet” cannot.)
- Go, [my] book, and greet with my words [those] beloved places: at least I shall reach [them] with the ‘foot’ that is allowed!
- vāde, liber, verbīsque meīs loca grāta salūtā:
- (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)
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
- tripudium
- uncipes
- unipes
- volucripes
Descendants
- Balkan Romance:
- Dalmatian:
- Italo-Romance
- Padanian:
- Northern Gallo-Romance:
- Southern Gallo-Romance:
- Ibero-Romance:
- Sardinian:
- Derived forms:
- ⇒ Vulgar Latin: *pedicāre
- Catalan: petjar
- ⇒ Vulgar Latin: *pedicāre
- Borrowings:
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
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 with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 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 Czech
Etymology
From Proto-Slavic *pьsъ.
Declension
Declension (pattern had)
singular | dual | plural | |
---|---|---|---|
nominative | pes | psy, psa | psi, psové (psoví), psie (psí), psy |
genitive | psa, psu | psú (psou) | psóv (psuov, psů), pes |
dative | psu, psovi | psoma, psama | psóm (psuom, psům) |
accusative | pes, psa | psy, psa | psi, psové (psoví), psie (psí), psy |
vocative | pse | psy, psa | psi, psové (psoví), psie (psí), psy |
locative | psě (pse), psu, psovi | psú (psou) | psích, psiech, psech, psách |
instrumental | psem | psoma, psama | psy, psmi, psami |
Descendants
- Czech: pes
Further reading
- “pes”, in Vokabulář webový: webové hnízdo pramenů k poznání historické češtiny [online], Praha: Ústav pro jazyk český AV ČR, 2006–2023
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
Romani
Alternative forms
Etymology
Inherited from Sauraseni Prakrit [script needed] (appa),[1] [script needed] (atta),[1] from Sanskrit आत्मन् (ātman).[1]
Descendants
- Kalo Finnish Romani: pes
See also
Romani personal pronouns
Number | Person | Gender | Nominative | Accusative | Dative | Locative | Ablative | Instrumental | Possessive |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Singular | First | — | me | man | manqe | manθe | manθar | mança | miro, -i, -e |
Second | — | tu | tut | tuqe | tuθe | tuθar | tuça | tiro, -i, -e | |
Reflexive third | — | — | pes | pesqe | pesθe | pesθar | peça | pesqero, -i, -e | |
Third | Masculine | ov | les | lesqe | lesθe | lesθar | leça | lesqero, -i, -e | |
Feminine | oj | la | laqe | laθe | laθar | laça | laqero, -i, -e | ||
Plural | First | — | amen | amenqe | amenθe | amenθar | amença | amaro, -i, -e | |
Second | — | tumen | tumenqe | tumenθe | tumenθar | tumença | tumaro, -i, -e | ||
Reflexive third | — | — | pen | penqe | penθe | penθar | pença | penqero, -i, -e | |
Third | — | on | len | lenqe | lenθe | lenθar | lença | lenqero, -i, -e |
References
- Boretzky, Norbert; Igla, Birgit (1994), “pe(s)”, in Wörterbuch Romani-Deutsch-Englisch für den südosteuropäischen Raum : mit einer Grammatik der Dialektvarianten [Romani-German-English dictionary for the Southern European region] (in German), Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag, →ISBN, page 215a
Slovene

Velik bel pes - A large white dog
Etymology
From Proto-Slavic *pьsъ.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /pə́s/
Noun
pə̏s m anim (female equivalent psíca)
Spanish
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈpes/ [ˈpes]
- Rhymes: -es
- Syllabification: pes
- Homophone: (Latin America) pez
Tok Pisin
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Noun
pes
- (anatomy) face
- 1989, Buk Baibel long Tok Pisin, Port Moresby: Bible Society of Papua New Guinea, Jenesis 3:19:
- Na bai yu wok hat tru long kisim kaikai bilong yu na tuhat bai i kamap long pes bilong yu. Na bai yu hatwok oltaim inap yu dai na yu go bek long graun. Long wanem, mi bin wokim yu long graun, na bai yu go bek gen long graun.”
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Torres Strait Creole
Etymology 1
From English face.
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