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pes

Pronunciation: [ˈpeːs]

“pes” is a Latin word. Its 10 meanings in English:

noun

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

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).

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