pēs

pēs lat.

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]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /pes/, [pɛs]

Noun

pēs m (genitive pedis); third declension

1. a foot, in its senses as
   1. (anatomy) a human foot [ quotations ▼]

      … ne manus, nec pedes, nec alia membra …

1. 1. … not the hands, not the feet, and not the other limbs …

1. 1. (zoology) any equivalent body part of an animal, including hooves, paws, etc.
   2. (units of measure) any of various units of length notionally based on the adult human foot, especially (historical) the Roman foot.
   3. (poetry) a metrical foot: the basic unit of metered poetry

[ quotations ▼]

1. 1. (geography) the base of a mountain
   2. (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