pedalis

See also: pedālis

Catalan

Verb

pedalis

1. second-person singular present subjunctive of pedalar

Latin

Etymology

Etymology tree

Proto-Indo-European *ped-

Proto-Indo-European *-s

Proto-Indo-European *pṓds

Proto-Italic *pets

Latin pēs

Proto-Indo-European *h₂el-

Proto-Indo-European *-is

Proto-Indo-European *h₂élisder.?

Proto-Italic *-ālis

Latin -ālis

Latin pedālis

From pēs + -ālis.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [pɛˈdaː.lɪs]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [peˈdaː.lis]

Adjective

pedālis (neuter pedāle); third-declension two-termination adjective

1. (relational) foot
2. measuring one foot long

Declension

Third-declension two-termination adjective.

	singular			plural
	masc./fem.	neuter		masc./fem.	neuter
nominative	pedālis	pedāle		pedālēs	pedālia
genitive	pedālis			pedālium
dative	pedālī			pedālibus
accusative	pedālem	pedāle		pedālīs pedālēs	pedālia
ablative	pedālī			pedālibus
vocative	pedālis	pedāle		pedālēs	pedālia

Descendants

• Asturian: peal, pial
• → English: pedal (adjective) (learned)
• French: pédal
• → Italian: pedale
  • → French: pédale
    • → Norman: pédale
    • → Romanian: pedală
    • → Dutch: pedaal
    • → English: pedal (noun, verb)
    • → Ottoman Turkish: په‌دال (pedal)
      • Turkish: pedal
    • → Swedish: pedal
      • → Finnish: pedaali
• → Portuguese: pedal
• → Spanish: pedal
  • → Asturian: pedal
  • → Catalan: pedal
  • → Chavacano: pedal
  • → Galician: pedal
• → Welsh: pedol

References

• “pedalis”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “pedalis”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• "pedalis", in Charles du Fresne du Cange, Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• “pedalis”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.