The corpus record — Latin

pedis

louse

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Where it lives

Menaechmi 7 · 7.37/10k
Cento Nuptialis 1 · 7.33/10k
Epodon 2 · 6.65/10k
De Arte Poetica liber 2 · 6.47/10k
Carmina 6 · 4.66/10k
Elegiae 5 · 4.05/10k
Remedia Amoris 2 · 3.81/10k
Apocolocyntosis 1 · 3.69/10k
Agamemnon 2 · 3.6/10k
Medea 2 · 3.53/10k
Mercator 3 · 3.5/10k
Ars Amatoria 5 · 3.36/10k

Densest 12 of 85 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

1. pedis — de Vaan

pedis 'louse' [m. /] ( Andr.+) Derivatives:pedicosus 'full of lice' (Titin.+). Pit. *pezd-. PIE *pesd- 'annoying insect'. IE cognates: Skt pedu- PN (of a man, protected by the Asvins, by whom he was presented with white snake-killing honey), paidva- [m.] cthe snake-killing horse of Pedu5, 'an insect harming horses', YAv. pazdu- [m.] 'beetle, maggot*. Lat. pedicosus shows an original basis *pedi/ek-y which implies … — [de Vaan, s.v. pedis, p. 468]

2. pĕdis — Lewis & Short

pĕdis, is, comm.pes,

I a louse: est pedis unus ingens in naso, Nov. ap. Non. 220, 26: e capite et e collo eorum crebro eligendi pedes, Varr. R. R. 3, 9: ubi quamque pedem videbat, Plaut. Vidular. Fragm. ib. 220, 28: pedes pulicesque, id. Curc. 4, 2, 14 (cited ap. Fest. s. v. pedibus, p. 210 Müll.); Lucil. ap. Fest. l. l.: pulicesne an cimices an pedes, Liv. Andron. ib.

Where it came from

de Vaan, Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Brill 2008) Treated in de Vaan, Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Brill 2008) s.v. pedis (scan pp. 468-469; entry #1286). Root candidates: *pezd-, *pesd-.
Ernout-Meillet, Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue latine Treated in Ernout-Meillet, Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue latine s.v. pédis (scan p. 517; entry #8446).

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