pes

See also: PES, PEs, pés, pès, pês, peš, p.es., pěś, and пес

English

Etymology

From Latin pēs (“foot”).

Noun

pes (plural pedes)

1. the foot of a human
2. the hoof of a quadruped
3. clubfoot or talipes
4. (music) a neume representing two notes ascending

Synonyms

• (neume): podatus

Anagrams

• EPS, EPs, ESP, Eps, PSE, SEP, SPE, Sep, Sep., eps, esp, esp., sep

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Catalan

Etymology

From Old Occitan pes, from Vulgar Latin *pēsum, from Latin pensum.

Pronunciation

• (Balearic) IPA^(key): /ˈpəs/
• (Central) IPA^(key): /ˈpɛs/
• (Valencian) IPA^(key): /ˈpes/

• Audio

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Noun

pes m (plural pesos)

1. weight (clarification of this definition is needed)

Derived terms

• contrapès
• fer el pes
• sobrepès

Related terms

• pesar

Further reading

• “pes” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.

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Cornish

Alternative forms

• pys

Noun

pes f (singulative pesen)

1. (Revived Late Cornish) peas

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Czech

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈpɛs]

• audio

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• Hyphenation: pes
• Rhymes: -ɛs

Etymology 1

From Old Czech pes, from Proto-Slavic *pьsъ.

pes (a Labrador)

Noun

pes m anim (feminine psice)

1. (mammals) dog
2. male dog
3. scoundrel, bad person

Declension

Declension

	singular	plural
nominative	pes	psi, psové
genitive	psa	psů
dative	psu, psovi	psům
accusative	psa	psy
vocative	pse	psi, psové
locative	psu, psovi	psech
instrumental	psem	psy

Antonyms

• (male dog): fena

Derived terms

Derived terms

• hlídací pes
• honicí pes
• chování řeznického psa
• mnoho psů, zajícova smrt

• pejsánek
• pejsek
• psí
• psoun
• starého psa novým kouskům nenaučíš

Further reading

• pes in Příruční slovník jazyka českého, 1935–1957
• pes in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého, 1960–1971, 1989

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the main entry.

Noun

pes

1. genitive plural of peso

Alternative forms

• pesos

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Friulian

Alternative forms

• peš (alternative orthography)

Etymology

From Latin piscis, piscem.

Noun

pes m (plural pes)

1. fish

Related terms

• pescjâ
• pescjadôr
• pescjarie
• pescje
• pessâr

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Indonesian

Etymology

From Dutch pest, from Middle French peste (whence French peste), ultimately from Latin pestis.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈpɛs]
• Hyphenation: pès

Noun

pes or pès

1. pest, plague.

   Synonym: sampar

Further reading

• “pes” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia (KBBI) Daring, Jakarta: Badan Pengembangan dan Pembinaan Bahasa, Kementerian Pendidikan dan Kebudayaan Republik Indonesia, 2016.

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Latin

pēs hūmānus (human foot)

pēs equī (foot of a horse)

Etymology

From Proto-Italic *pets, from Proto-Indo-European *pṓds (compare Sanskrit पद् (pád), Ancient Greek πούς (poús) and Old English fōt, English foot).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /peːs/, [peːs̠]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /pes/, [pɛs]

• Audio (Classical)

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Noun

pēs m (genitive pedis); third declension

1. a foot, in its senses as
   1. (anatomy) a human foot

      … ne manus, nec pedes, nec alia membra …

      … not the hands, not the feet, and not the other limbs …

   2. (zoology) any equivalent body part of an animal, including hooves, paws, etc.
   3. (units of measure) any of various units of length notionally based on the adult human foot, especially (historical) the Roman foot.
   4. (poetry) a metrical foot: the basic unit of metered poetry
   5. (geography) the base of a mountain
   6. (furniture) the bottom of a leg of a table, chair, stool, etc.
2. (figuratively) a place to tread one's foot: territory, ground, soil
3. (nautical) a rope attached to a sail in order to set
4. (music) tempo, pace, time
5. (botany) the pedicel or stalk of a fruit

Declension

Third-declension noun.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	pēs	pedēs
Genitive	pedis	pedum
Dative	pedī	pedibus
Accusative	pedem	pedēs
Ablative	pede	pedibus
Vocative	pēs	pedēs

Hyponyms

• (metrical foot): trochaeus; pes dissyllbus or disyllbus, pes bibrevis, choreus, jambus, spondeus, spondius, spondeos (2-syllable feet); pes trisyllabus, amphibrachus, amphibrachys, amphimacrus, dactylus, extensipes, molossus, pes anapaestus, pes antanapaestus, pes antibacchius, pes bacchius, pes creticus, pes hippius (3-syllable feet); pes tetrasyllbus, antispastus, chorjambus, dichoreus, dijambus, dispondeus, epitritus, paeon, proceleumaticus, proceleusmaticus (4-syllable feet); pes pentasyllbus, dochmius, mesobrachys, mesomacros, pariambodes, probrachys, pes amoebaeus, pes antamoebaeus, pes orthius (5-syllable feet)

Meronyms

• (unit of length): decempeda (10 pedes)

See also

• pede tellūrem pulsō
• pedem effero
• pedem fero
• pedem refero
• pedes navales
• si in fundo pedem posuisses
• a pedibus usque ad caput
• alterno pede terram quatere

Derived terms

• adversipedes
• aenipes
• aeripes
• agipes
• alipes
• anguipes
• antepes
• avipes
• bipeda
• bipēs
• capripes
• celeripēs
• centipeda
• centipes
• citipes
• compes
• cornipes
• decempeda
• decempeda
• fissipes
• flammipes
• flexipes
• gracilipes
• hircipes
• ignipes
• lanipes
• latipes
• lentipes
• levipes
• longipes
• loripes
• milepeda
• mollipēs
• multipeda
• octipes
• palmipes
• peda
• pedālis
• pedāneus
• pedārius
• pedātim
• pedātūra
• pedātus
• pedeplana
• pedepressim
• pedēs
• pedetemptim
• pedica
• pedicinus
• pediculus
• pedisequus
• pedō
• pedocucullus
• pedūlis
• pedum
• planipes
• plumipes
• properipes
• quadrupēs
• remipes
• segnipes
• semipes
• septipes
• serpentipes
• sesquipes
• solidipes
• sonipes
• stapēs
• suppes
• tardipes
• tremipes
• uncipes
• unipes
• volucripes

 

Related terms

• pedālis
• pedeplāna
• pedester
• pedetemptim
• peditātus
• peditō
• pedūle

 

Descendants

• Aromanian: pezã
• Asturian: pie
• Corsican: pede
• Dalmatian: pi
• English: pes
• Esperanto: piedo
• Extremaduran: pie
• Franco-Provençal: pied
• Old French: pié
  • Middle French: pied
    • French: pied
  • Walloon: pî
• Friulian: pît
• Gallurese: pedi
• Ido: pedo
• Interlingua: pede
• Istriot: peîe, pèie
• Italian: piede
• Leonese: pía
• Ligurian: pê
• Mirandese: pie
• Mozarabic:

  Arabic: بَّادى‎ (pedi)

  Hebrew: פּאֵדיִ‎ (pedi)

• Navarro-Aragonese: pie, pied
  • Aragonese: piet
• Neapolitan: pere
• Norman: pid, pyid
• Old Occitan: pe
  • Catalan: peu
  • Occitan: pè
• Old Portuguese: pee
  • Galician: pé
  • Portuguese: pé
• Old Spanish: pie
  • Spanish: pie
• Piedmontese: pe
• Romanian: piez
• Romansch: pe
• Sassarese: pedi
• Sardinian: pee, pei
• Sicilian: pedi, peri
• Venetian: pìe, piè, pè
• ⇒ Vulgar Latin: *pedicāre
  • Catalan: petjar

References

• pes in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• pes in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• pes in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• pes in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
• Carl Meissner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
  • to begin a journey (on foot, on horseback, by land): iter ingredi (pedibus, equo, terra)
    
  • to go on foot: pedibus ire
    
  • to trample under foot: pedibus obterere, conculcare
    
  • to have the gout: ex pedibus laborare, pedibus aegrum esse
    
  • to vote for some one's motion: discedere (pedibus), ire in alicuius sententiam (Liv. 23. 10)
    
  • to serve in the cavalry, infantry: equo, pedibus merere (Liv. 27. 11)
    
  • (ambiguous) a hand-to-hand engagement ensued: tum pes cum pede collatus est (Liv. 28. 2)
    
  • (ambiguous) to fall at some one's feet: ad pedes alicuius accidere
    
  • (ambiguous) to throw oneself at some one's feet: ad pedes alicuius se proicere, se abicere, procumbere, se prosternere
    
  • (ambiguous) to prostrate oneself before a person: ad pedes alicuius iacēre, stratum esse (stratum iacēre)
    
  • (ambiguous) to fail to see what lies before one: quod ante pedes est or positum est, non videre
    
  • (ambiguous) to never set foot out of doors: domo pedem non efferre
    
  • (ambiguous) to cross the threshold: pedem limine efferre
    
  • (ambiguous) a hand-to-hand engagement ensued: tum pes cum pede collatus est (Liv. 28. 2)
    
  • (ambiguous) hand to hand: collato pede (Liv. 6. 12)
    
  • (ambiguous) to retire (without turning one's back on the enemy): pedem referre
    
• pes in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• pes in William Smith et al., editor (1890) A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin

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Lombard

Etymology

Akin to Italian peso, from Latin pensum.

Noun

pes

1. weight

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Middle English

Noun

pes

1. Alternative form of pese

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Old Czech

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *pьsъ.

Noun

pes m

1. (mammals) dog

Declension

Declension (pattern had)

	singular	dual	plural
nominative	pes	psy, psa	psi, psové (psoví), psie (psí), psy
genitive	psa, psu	psú (psou)	psóv (psuov, psů), pes
dative	psu, psovi	psoma, psama	psóm (psuom, psům)
accusative	pes, psa	psy, psa	psi, psové (psoví), psie (psí), psy
vocative	pse	psy, psa	psi, psové (psoví), psie (psí), psy
locative	psě (pse), psu, psovi	psú (psou)	psích, psiech, psech, psách
instrumental	psem	psoma, psama	psy, psmi, psami

Descendants

• Czech: pes

Further reading

• “pes”, in Vokabulář webový: webové hnízdo pramenů k poznání historické češtiny [online]‎^[2], Praha: Ústav pro jazyk český AV ČR, 2006–2020

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Old French

Etymology

From Latin pax.

Noun

pes f (oblique plural pes, nominative singular pes, nominative plural pes)

1. Alternative form of pais (“peace”)
   • circa 1250, Marie de France, Guigemar

     Va t'en de ci ! Lai me aveir pes.

     Go, leave me! Let me have peace.

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Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *pьsъ.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pɛs/

Noun

pes m (Cyrillic spelling пес)

1. (Kajkavian) dog

Synonyms

• pas

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Slovak

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *pьsъ.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈpɛs/

Noun

pes m (genitive singular psa, nominative plural psi, psy, genitive plural psov)

1. dog

Declension

Declension of pes

	singular	plural
nominative	pes	psi, psy
genitive	psa	psov
dative	psovi	psom
accusative	psa	psov, psy
locative	psovi	psoch
instrumental	psom	psami

Derived terms

• psí
• psíček
• psík
• psisko
• psíča

Further reading

• pes in Slovak dictionaries at slovnik.juls.savba.sk

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Slovene

Velik bel pes - A large white dog

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *pьsъ.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pə́s/

Noun

pə̏s m anim (female equivalent psíca)

1. dog

   Imamo tri pse. ― We have three dogs.

   Na sprehod grem s svojim psom. ― I'm going on a walk with my dog.

   Synonym: kȗža

Inflection

Masculine anim., hard o-stem
nom. sing.	pes
gen. sing.	psa
	singular	dual	plural
nominative	pes	psa	psi
accusative	psa	psa	pse
genitive	psa	psov	psov
dative	psu	psoma	psom
locative	psu	psih	psih
instrumental	psom	psoma	psi

Further reading

• “pes”, in Slovarji Inštituta za slovenski jezik Frana Ramovša ZRC SAZU, portal Fran

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Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈpes/, [ˈpes]
• Homophone: pez (non-Castilian)

Noun

pes

1. plural of pe

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Tok Pisin

Etymology

From English face.

Noun

pes

1. (anatomy) face
   • 1989, Buk Baibel long Tok Pisin, Port Moresby: Bible Society of Papua New Guinea, Jenesis 3:19:

     Na bai yu wok hat tru long kisim kaikai bilong yu na tuhat bai i kamap long pes bilong yu. Na bai yu hatwok oltaim inap yu dai na yu go bek long graun. Long wanem, mi bin wokim yu long graun, na bai yu go bek gen long graun.”

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Torres Strait Creole

Etymology 1

From English face.

Noun

pes

1. face

Etymology 2

Noun

pes

1. (eastern dialect) a ripe coconut

Usage notes

Pes is the fifth stage of coconut growth. It is preceded by kopespes and followed by u.