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Pes

noun

(pl. pedes)

The part of the leg of a human being below the ankle joint. Synonyms: foot, human foot. "Armored from head to foot"

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"Pes" Quotes from Famous Books

... verba haec: Enos Lases, etc. Orelli, 'Inscript.' No. 2271.) The fact remains that the people of India, Greece, and Italy agree in calling the component elements of their verses feet or steps ([Greek: pous], pes, Sanskrit pad or pada; padapankti, a row of feet, and gagati, i. e. andante, are names of Sanskrit metres). It is not too much, therefore, to say that they may have considered metre as a kind of stepping or striding, and that ...

— Chips From A German Workshop - Volume I - Essays on the Science of Religion • Friedrich Max Mueller

... a pes," is translated in the Glossary "rose upon feet;" but the more correct rendering of it appears to me to be that of jumping or ...

— Notes and Queries, Number 238, May 20, 1854 • Various

... illum contemplo et formam cognosco meam, quem ad modum ego sum—saepe in speculum inspexi—nimis similest mei; itidem habet petasum ac vestitum: tam consimilest atque ego; sura, pes, statura, tonsus, oculi, nasum vel labra, malae, mentum, barba, collus: totus. quid ...

— Amphitryo, Asinaria, Aulularia, Bacchides, Captivi • Plautus Titus Maccius

Words linked to "Pes" : pes planus, vertebrate foot, man, vena intercapitalis, calcaneus, hallux, digital arteries, metatarsal artery, intercapitular vein, arcuate artery, instep, toe, arteria digitalis, homo, foot, flatfoot, splayfoot, Ipomoea pes-caprae, os tarsi fibulare, heel, arteria metatarsea, great toe, Oxalis pes-caprae, pedal extremity, human being, little toe, sole, vena metatarsus, big toe, metatarsal vein, human, arteria arcuata, heelbone, leg