Meaning of pes | Babel Free

Definitions

1. a foot, in its senses as
   declension-3
2. a human foot
   declension-3
3. any equivalent body part of an animal, including hooves, paws, etc.
   declension-3
4. any of various units of length notionally based on the adult human foot, especially (historical) the Roman foot.
   declension-3
5. a metrical foot: the basic unit of metered poetry
   declension-3
6. the base of a mountain
   declension-3
7. the bottom of a leg of a table, chair, stool, etc.
   declension-3
8. a place to tread one's foot: territory, ground, soil
   declension-3, figuratively
9. a rope attached to a sail in order to set
   declension-3
10. tempo, pace, time
    declension-3
11. the pedicel or stalk of a fruit
    declension-3

Equivalents

Examples

“… ne manus, nec pedes, nec alia membra …”

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

“… ūnum exūta pedem vinclīs, in veste recīncta, ….”

[... Dido’s] one foot having cast off its sandal-straps, with her garment loosened, ….

“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.)”

“Sī ergō ego lāvī pedēs vestrōs, Dominus et Magister, et vōs dēbētis alter alterius lavāre pedēs.”

If I, [your] Lord and Teacher, have washed your feet, then you ought to wash the feet of one another.

“vāde, liber, verbīsque meīs loca grāta salūtā:”

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.)

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