The corpus record — Latin

pedica

pedica · f

a shackle

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Where it lives

Ludus Septem Sapientum 1 · 7.58/10k
Florida 2 · 2.54/10k
Hamartigenia 1 · 1.56/10k
Asinaria 1 · 1.24/10k
De Consolatione ad Marciam 1 · 1.19/10k
Poenulus 1 · 0.91/10k
Georgicon 1 · 0.71/10k
Metamorphoses 3 · 0.56/10k
Epigrammata 3 · 0.53/10k
Epistulae. Selections. 1 · 0.23/10k
Metamorphoses 1 · 0.13/10k
Naturalis Historia 1 · 0.03/10k

Densest 12 of 13 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

pĕdĭca — Lewis & Short

pĕdĭca, ae, f.pes,

I a shackle, fetter, or chain for the feet, a springe, gin, snare (cf.: compes, vinculum tendicula).

I Lit., Plaut. Poen. 3, 1, 10; Liv. 21, 36: tunc gruibus pedicas et retia ponere cervis, Verg. G. 1, 307; Ov. M. 15, 473; Vulg. Jer. 5, 26: quid, si pedes pedicis coartentur? App. Flor. p. 357, 29.—

B Transf., of the spider's web, Plin. 11, 24, 28, § 81.—

II Trop., a shackle, fetter (post-class.): amoris, App. M. 2, p. 116, 40: nuptiales, id. ib. 6, p. 182, 41.

Where it came from

Ernout-Meillet, Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue latine Treated in Ernout-Meillet, Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue latine s.v. pedica (scan p. 634; entry #10460).

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