pedester

Latin

Etymology

From pedes ("walker, foot soldier" stem-form pedit-) +‎ -ter, alternative form of -tris.

Pronunciation

Adjective

pedester (feminine pedestris, neuter pedestre); third-declension three-termination adjective; pedestris sometimes masculine

  1. walking, pedestrian, on foot
  2. of infantry, foot soldiers
  3. prosaic, commonplace

Declension

Third-declension three-termination adjective.

singular plural
masculine feminine neuter masculine feminine neuter
nominative pedester pedestris pedestre pedestrēs pedestria
genitive pedestris pedestrium
dative pedestrī pedestribus
accusative pedestrem pedestre pedestrēs pedestria
ablative pedestrī pedestribus
vocative pedester pedestris pedestre pedestrēs pedestria

Descendants

  • Aromanian: pidestru
  • French: piètre
  • Italian: pedestre
  • Romanian: pedestru
  • Sicilian: pidestri
  • → English: pedestrian
  • → French: pédestre
  • → Portuguese: pedestre
  • → Spanish: pedestre

References

  • “pedester”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • “pedester”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • pedester in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
  • Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
    • travel by land, on foot: iter terrestre, pedestre
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