The corpus record — Latin

pedo1

at the bottom

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Where it lives

Otho 1 · 6.34/10k
Epistularum 2 · 2.2/10k
Cistellaria 1 · 1.91/10k
de Origine et Situ Germanorum Liber 1 · 1.81/10k
De Bello Hispaniensi 1 · 1.65/10k
Curculio 1 · 1.62/10k
De Vita Iulii Agricolae 1 · 1.48/10k
Ars Amatoria 2 · 1.34/10k
Epigrammata 7 · 1.24/10k
Carmina 1 · 0.78/10k
Carmina 1 · 0.75/10k
Satyrarum libri 1 · 0.7/10k

Densest 12 of 30 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

1. *ped-o- — de Vaan

*ped-o- 'at the bottom' > Gn πηδόν [η.] 'blade of an oar\ Since an ablaut grade *e is not attested for the IE paradigm of cfoot' other than maybe in the loc.pl. *ped-su, the isolated Latin nom. pes is probably best explained from Lachmann's Law: ped-s > pes (Jasanoff 2004: 414). The e-grade in the Latin paradigm was taken from the acc.sg. *pedr*m or the loc.sg. *ped{-i). The U. compounds in -pursus prove that the … — [de Vaan, s.v. *ped-o-, p. 476]

2. pĕdo — Lewis & Short

pĕdo, āvi, ātum, 1, v. a.pes,

I to foot, i. e. to furnish with feet; hence, *

I Male pedatus, ill set on his feet, Suet. Oth. 12.—

II To prop up trees or vines: vineae pedandae cura, Col. 4, 12.

3. pēdo — Lewis & Short

pēdo, pĕpēdi (pēdĭtum), 3, v. n.for perdo, Sanscr. root pard-; Gr. pe/rdw, pordh/; cf. Germ. Furz; Engl. fart,

I to break wind, Hor. S. 1, 8, 46; Mart. 10, 14, 10.—Part. as subst.: pēdĭtum, = crepitus ventris, Cat. 54, 3.

4. pĕdo — Lewis & Short

pĕdo, ōnis, m.pes,

I one who has broad feet, a splay-foot: pedo, plancus, platu/pous, Gloss. Philox.

5. Pĕdo — Lewis & Short

Pĕdo, ōnis, m.,

I a Roman surname. —Esp.,

1 M. Juventius Pedo, Cic. Clu. 38, 107.—

2 C. Pedo Albinovanus, a poet; v. Albinovanus.—Others are mentioned, Juv. 7, 129; Mart. 5, 5, 6; 10, 19, 10.

In the wild

Pedatam Columella, Res Rustica, Books I-IX 4.20.1
pedemque Juvenal, Saturae 5.14.219
pedite Livy, Ab urbe condita 2.26.4.3
pedite Livy, Ab urbe condita 3.31.21.15
pedesque Curtius Rufus, Historiae Alexandri Magni 7.6.8
pedesque Ovid, Metamorphoses 5.432

6 of 68 attestations shown.

Where it came from

Ernout-Meillet, Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue latine Treated in Ernout-Meillet, Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue latine s.v. pedo (scan p. 517; entry #8453).

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