pous
English
noun
Definitions
- The Greek foot, a unit of length based on the shod foot, generally equal to 16 fingers (δάκτυλοι) or stade (στάδια) but varying over time and location within Greece and the Hellenized world.
Etymology
Derived from Ancient Greek πούς (foot, leg).
Origin
Ancient Greek
πούς
Gloss
foot, leg
Concept
Semantic Field
The body
Ontological Category
Other
Kanji
脚
Emoji
🐾
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- hexapod English
- phalarope English
- chilopodus Latin
- diplopodus Latin
- podetium Latin
- garbo Italian
- -podo Spanish, Castilian
- Μελάμπους Ancient Greek
- δασύπους Ancient Greek
- κορωνόπους Ancient Greek
- λαγώπους Ancient Greek
- λεοντοπόδιον Ancient Greek
- λευκός Ancient Greek
- πέλλυτρα Ancient Greek
- ποδάγρα Ancient Greek
- ποδάρκης Ancient Greek
- ποδήνεμος Ancient Greek
- ποδανιπτήρ Ancient Greek
- ποδοστράβη Ancient Greek
- ποδώκης Ancient Greek
- πούς Ancient Greek
- τετράπους Ancient Greek
- τρίπους Ancient Greek
- χυτρόπους Ancient Greek
- ἀναποδίζω Ancient Greek
- ἀνδράποδον Ancient Greek
- ἄπους Ancient Greek
- ἐρυθρόπους Ancient Greek
- ἐχινόπους Ancient Greek
- Ἔμπουσα Ancient Greek
- ἱμαντόπους Ancient Greek
- ἱστόποδες Ancient Greek
- ὀκτάπους Ancient Greek
- ὀκτώπους Ancient Greek
- ὑποπόδιον Ancient Greek
- ὠκύπους Ancient Greek
- *pṓds Proto-Indo-European
- ποδάγρα Greek (modern)
- -pus Translingual