The corpus record — Latin

tālĭpĕdo

to be weak in the feet

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What it meant

tālĭpĕdo — Lewis & Short

tālĭpĕdo, āre (prop. to walk on the ankles),

I to be weak in the feet, to totter: talipedare antiqui dicebant pro vacillare pedibus lassitudine, quasi qui trahit pedes, ut talis videatur insistere aut identidem tollere pedes, Fest. p. 359 Müll.

Where it came from

No etymology authority pointer is recorded for this lemma yet — an honest gap, not an omission.

Latin text and lemmatization derived from the Perseus Digital Library (canonical-latinLit), CC BY-SA 4.0. Lewis & Short (public domain) via Perseus. This derived data is shared under the same CC BY-SA 4.0 license.