The corpus record — Latin

sesquĭ-pēs

sesquĭ-pēs · m

a foot and a half

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What it meant

sesquĭ-pēs — Lewis & Short

sesquĭ-pēs, pĕdis, m.,

I a foot and a half (in length, breadth, etc.): cytisum in sesquipedem ponere, Varr. R. R. 1, 43: plus quam sesquipedem prohibeat infodere, Col. 3, 13, 8; id. Arb. 1, 5: sesquipede est quam tu longior, Plaut. Trin. 4, 2, 58; Mart. 8, 60, 2; Pers. 1, 57.

Where it came from

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