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semipedalis

semipedalis · adj

a half-foot in size

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Where it lives

De Architectura 1 · 0.17/10k

What it meant

sēmĭ-pĕdālis — Lewis & Short

sēmĭ-pĕdālis, e, adj.,

I a half-foot in size, half a foot long, broad, etc.: apertura, Vitr. 10, 19; Col. 11, 3, 21: spatium, id. 12, 52, 4: altitudo, Plin. 26, 8, 42, § 69: truncus, id. 13, 4, 8, § 37: pisciculus, id. 32, 1, 1, § 3; cf. the foll. art.

In the wild

semipedalia Vitruvius, De Architectura 10.13.4

Where it came from

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