pedica

Latin

Etymology

From pēs, pedis (“foot”) +‎ -icus (“pertaining to”, adjectival suffix), of which the feminine form was substantivised.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈpe.di.ka/, [ˈpɛd̪ɪkä]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈpe.di.ka/, [ˈpɛːd̪ikä]

Noun

pedica f (genitive pedicae); first declension

1. shackle, fetter
2. snare

Declension

First-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	pedica	pedicae
genitive	pedicae	pedicārum
dative	pedicae	pedicīs
accusative	pedicam	pedicās
ablative	pedicā	pedicīs
vocative	pedica	pedicae

Derived terms

• impedicō

Descendants

• Vulgar Latin: *pedicus m
  • Old French: piege m
    • Middle French: piege m
      • French: piège m
• → Albanian: pengesë
• Aromanian: cheadicã
• Catalan: petja
• Galician: péga, piega
• Italian: pietica
• Portuguese: pega, peia
• Romanian: piedică
• Spanish: pielga

References

• “pedica”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “pedica”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• pedica in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• pedica in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• “pedica”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers