fulcipedia

Latin

Etymology

From fulciō (“to prop up”) +‎ pēs (“foot”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ful.kiˈpe.di.a/, [fʊɫ̪kɪˈpɛd̪iä]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ful.t͡ʃiˈpe.di.a/, [ful̠ʲt͡ʃiˈpɛːd̪iä]

Noun

fulcipedia f (genitive fulcipediae); first declension

1. (hapax) The meaning of this term is uncertain. Possibilities include:
   1. 'propfoot, of a drunken woman, who needs support', as defined in the Lewis and Short Latin Dictionary
   2. a woman 'standing on her dignity', according to the Oxford Latin Dictionary
   3. 'high-heeled hussy', as rendered in Michael Heseltine's 1913 Loeb Classical Library translation
   • c. 27 CE – 66 CE, Petronius, Satyricon 75:

     Puerum bāsiāvī frūgālissimum, non propter fōrmam, sed quia frūgī est: decem partēs dīcit, librum ab oculō legit, thraecium sibi dē diāriīs fēcit, arcisellium dē suō parāvit et duās trullās. Nōn est dignus quem in oculīs feram? Sed Fortūnāta vetat. Ita tibi vidētur, fulcipedia? Suādeō, bonum tuum concoquās, milva, et mē nōn faciās ringentem, amasiuncula: aliōquīn experīris cerebrum meum.

     I kissed the virtuous boy, not because of his looks, but because he's worthy: he says the multiplication of ten, reads a book from sight, got himself a Thracian suit of armour from his daily allowance, bought a round-backed chair from his own money and two ladles. Is he not worthy to hold dear? But Fortunata is against it. Do you see it that way, fulcipedia? I advise you to put up with your good life, she-kite, and not make me angry, dear: otherwise you're testing my brain.

Declension

First-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	fulcipedia	fulcipediae
genitive	fulcipediae	fulcipediārum
dative	fulcipediae	fulcipediīs
accusative	fulcipediam	fulcipediās
ablative	fulcipediā	fulcipediīs
vocative	fulcipedia	fulcipediae

Related terms

• fulciō
• fulcrum

References

• “fulcipedia”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• fulcipedia in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• fulcipedia in the Oxford Latin Dictionary, Oxford 1968