ped-, pedi-, -pedal, -ped, -pede, -pedia +
(Latin: foot, feet)
Don't confuse this Latin element with a Greek pedo- that means "child" or the Greek pedo- which means "ground, soil".
If you want to leave footprints in the sands of time, don’t drag your feet.
—Rayoa
inexpedient
1. Not expedient; not suitable, not judicious, nor advisable.
2. Not convenient or practical.
3. Inadvisable; not recommended or prudent (formal usage).
inexpediently
In an expedient manner.
longipedate, longipede
Long-footed.
millipede
Any member of the arthropod class Diaplopoda with a cylindrical and segmented body, each segment having two pairs of short legs, of which there may be several hundred altogether in some species.
Millipedes are vegetarian and, in contrast with centipedes, lack poison glands, although most kinds produce irritating fluids that repel predation by birds.
multiped, multipede; multipedal
1. Having many feet; such as, animals or insects.
2. An insect having many feet; such as, a
polyped or a
myriapod.
A multiped is having a snack.
octoped
An eight-footed animal or thing.
palmiped, palmipede
A web-footed bird.
pawn
1. In the game of chess, one of eight men of one color and of the lowest value, usually moved one square at a time vertically and capturing diagonally.
A "lowly chess piece" is from about 1369, from Anglo-French poun, Old French peon, and earlier pehon; which came from Middle Latin pedonem, "foot soldier" from Late Latin pedonem, "one going on foot", which in turn came from Latin pes, "foot". The application of the chess sense existed in Old French by the 13th century.
2. Someone who is used or manipulated to further another person's purposes.
3. Borrowing and leaving an article as security for repayment of a loan.
pedal
1. A lever worked by the foot, in various musical instruments, and with various functions.
2. Of, pertaining to, or connected with the foot or feet.
3. To work the pedals of a bicycle, etc. so as to propel it.
pedary
Of or pertaining to the feet or walking.
pedate
1. Having divisions like toes, or like the claws of a bird’s foot.
2. Furnished with or having feet; footlike.
pedately
1. A reference to having a foot or feet.
2. A description of something resembling a foot.
3. Referring to something having divisions like toes.
pedestal
1. The base supporting a column or pillar in construction; the base on which an obelisk, statue, vase, or the like is erected.
2. A base, support, foundation (material or immaterial).
pedestrial
A reference to the feet; employing the foot or feet.
pedestrian
1. On foot, going or walking on foot; performed on foot; of or pertaining to walking.
2. Representing a person on foot, as distinguished from equestrian.
3. Applied to plain prose as opposed to verse, or to verse of prosaic character; hence, prosaic, commonplace, dull, uninspired; colloquial, vulgar.
Related "foot, feet" units:
melo-;
planta-;
podo-;
-pus.
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