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
pedestrianize
To practice walking; to go afoot.
pedetentous
Proceeding step by step, advancing cautiously.
pedialgia
1. Neuralgia (pain) in the soles of the feet.
2. Neuralgic pain in the foot or neuralgia in the sole of the foot.
pedicab
A small pedal-operated vehicle; usually, a tricycle, serving as a taxi in some countries.
pedicel
1. A small stalk, part, or organ, especially one serving as a support.
2. The secondary process of a podocyte that helps form the visceral capsule of a renal corpuscle; also called: "footplate, foot process".
3. A footlike part; especially, any of the secondary processes of a podocyte (primary and secondary footlike radiating processes) that interdigitate with those of other podocytes in a renal corpuscle; also, "foot process".
pedicelate
A reference to or description of a pedicel.
pedicle
1. A small stalk or stalklike structure; especially, one supporting or connecting an organ or other body part.
2. A slender footlike or stemlike part, as that which exists at the base of a tumor.
3. Part of a skin or tissue graft that is left temporarily attached to the original site.
pedicure, pedicurist
1. One whose business is the surgical care and treatment of the feet; a chiropodist.
2. The surgical treatment of the feet; especially, in the removal or cure of corns, bunions, and the like.
A pedicurist is working on a man's bunion (lump, swelling).
pediferous
Having feet or foot-like parts; pedigerous.
pediform
Having the form of a foot: said chiefly of the organs of insects.
pedigerous
Bearing feet or legs; having feet.
pedigree
1. A conventional mark consisting of three curved lines, which bears a distinct resemblance to the claws of a bird; specifically, a crane.
2. A genealogical stemma or table; a genealogy drawn up or exhibited in some tabular form.
3. One’s line of ancestors; an ancestral line; ancestry; lineage, descent.
4. Etymologically, pedigree means “crane’s foot”. The idea behind the metaphor is that a bird’s foot, with its three splayed-out toes, resembles the branching lines drawn to illustrate a family tree or pedigree.
pediluvial, pediluvium
Of or pertaining to the washing of feet, or to a foot-bath; ceremonies connected with the washing of feet (as a religious act).
pedimanous
Having feet like hands: applied to the lemurs and opossums in reference to their hind feet.
pediment
In geology, a broad, gently sloping, low-relief erosion surface, composed primarily of bare rock, that develops in an arid or semiarid region at the base of a receding mountain slope.
Related "foot, feet" units:
melo-;
planta-;
podo-;
-pus.