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The corpus record — Latin

tardĭ-pēs

tardĭ-pēs · adj

slowfooted

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What it meant

tardĭ-pēs — Lewis & Short

tardĭ-pēs, pĕdis, adj.tardus-pes,

I slowfooted, tardy-footed; hence, poet. transf., limping, halting, an epithet of Vulcan: deus, Cat. 36, 7; and of the same, absol.: quin et Tardipedi sacris jam rite solutis, of slow-foot, tardy-foot, Col. 10, 419.

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.