“foot” in Latin

The limb, so called, PROPR. and IMPROPR., pes: calx (the heel). To come, travel, etc., on foot, pedibus ire, venire; iter facere: he goes on foot, pedibus incedit: to serve on foot, pedibus merere or stipendia facere; stipendia pedestria facere (Liv., 7, 13): to fight on foot (of cavalry), pedibus proeliari; also, descendere or desilire ex equis (to dismount in order to fight on foot): to make the cavalry fight on foot, equitatum or equitem deducere ad pedes: the cavalry fought on foot, pugna it ad pedes: to throw one’s self at anybody’s feet, ad pedes alicujus se abjicere, projicere, prosternere, provolvere; ad pedes alicui or ad genua alicujus procumbere; ad pedes alicujus procidere; ad pedes alicujus, ad genua alicui accidere; genibus alicujus advolvi; prosternere se et supplicare alicui (as supplicant): se alicui pro aliquo supplicem objicere; supplicare alicui pro aliquo: to lie at anybody’s feet, ad pedes alicujus jacere, stratum esse, stratum jacere: to have sore or bad feet, pedibus non valere; pedibus captum esse: one who has sore or bad feet, pedibus aeger; male pedatus (Suet., Oth., 12): not to be able to go on foot any longer, usum pedum amisisse: to set foot in any place, pedem ponere in locum or in loco: not to stir a foot beyond etc., nusquam longius vestigium movere: not to set a foot out of doors, pedem e domo non efferre; pedem e domo non egredi: to tread on anybody’s foot, pede suo pedem alicui premere: to tread or trample anybody under foot., pedibus aliquem conculcare, proculcare (PROP., and without pedibus; also IMPROP.; Vid: Lat. Dict.). To put the best foot foremost, pleno gradu tendere: gradum addere, accelerare, corripere: a journey on foot, iter pedestre: to take a journey on foot, iter pedibus ingredi; iter pedibus facere, conficere: one who walks on foot, pedes: a kick with the foot, *pedis ictus: the extremity of the foot, or the point or tip of the foot, pes ultimus; digiti (pedis) summi (the tips of the toes): the sole of the foot, vola: relating to the sole of the foot, plantaris: down to the sole of the foot, usque ad imos pedes. A covering for the feet, pedum tegmen (e.g., to have a certain covering for the feet, aliquo tegmine pedum indui, Tac., Ann., 1, 41, 1); fascia pedalis (a tie for the feet): a snare for the feet, pedica: disease of the foot, pedum vitium: he tramples under foot the rights of the people, omnia jura populi obterit: to trample under foot all divine and human rights, omnia divina humanaque jura permiscere: the usage or ceremony of kissing anybody’s foot, *mos pedis osculandi: to admit anybody to kiss one’s foot, alicui porrigere osculandum sinistrum pedem (after Sen., Benef., 2, 12, 1).

The lowest part of anything, pes (e.g., of a table, a bench): the foot of a column, basis (the lower square part of which was called plinthis or plinthus): the foot of a mountain, radices montis (☞ not pes montis): at the foot of the mountain, in radicibus montis: in infimo monte; sub jugo montis: at the very foot of the mountain, in imis montis radicibus (e.g., ferri, of a river): the town is situated at the foot of the mountain, oppidum monti subjectum est. Cf.,” At the foot of anything,” e.g., of a letter, is to be rendered by “extremus,” if the very last part of anything is meant; e.g., the letter at the foot of which, etc., epistola, in qua extrema, etc.

A foot as measure, pes (also with the addition of porrectus, if it runs in one line, and with the addition of contractus, if it forms an angle; Vid: Nitsch, Beschreibung des häuslichen, etc., Zustandes der Römer, vol. i, p. 525): one foot large, or in size, pedalis (in general, one foot long, high, etc., but it may also mean “a foot in diameter;” e.g., of the sun, Cic., Acad., pr. 2, 26, 82: ☞ pedaneus post-classical): pedem longus (one foot long): two feet large, bipedalis: half a foot large, semipedalis: one foot and a half large, sesquipedalis: five feet high, quinque pedes altus: ditches five feet deep, fossae quinos pedes altae: I don’t see a single foot of land in Italy, which, etc., pedem in Italia video nullum esse, qui, etc.

Infantry, Vid:

IMPROPR., To set (anything) on foot, aliquid introducere (to introduce); aliquid movere, commovere (e.g., to set on foot something new, nova quaedam commovere, Cic., Acad., 2, 6, 18); initium alicujus rei facere or pellere (to start anything, to make the beginning with it; e.g., sermonis initium pellere, Cic., Brut., 87, 297); mentionem alicujus rei movere (to cause the mention of anything to be made, or resolution respecting anything, to be adopted; Vid: Liv., 28, 11).

TRANS. and INTRANS.

To kick, spurn, Vid:

To new-sole boots, *calceis soleas suffigere.

To walk on foot [Vid: FOOT].

To foot it, Vid: To DANCE.