peditum

Latin

Etymology

From pēdō (“break wind, fart”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈpeː.di.tum/, [ˈpeːd̪ɪt̪ʊ̃ˑ]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈpe.di.tum/, [ˈpɛːd̪it̪um]

Noun

pēditum n (genitive pēditī); second declension

1. fart

Declension

Second-declension noun (neuter).

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	pēditum	pēdita
Genitive	pēditī	pēditōrum
Dative	pēditō	pēditīs
Accusative	pēditum	pēdita
Ablative	pēditō	pēditīs
Vocative	pēditum	pēdita

Descendants

• Catalan: pet
• French: pet
• Friulian: pêt
• Galician: peido
• Italian: peto
• Neapolitan: pireto
• Occitan: pet
• Portuguese: peido ⇒ peidar
• Sicilian: pìditu, pìritu
• Spanish: pedo
• Venetan: peto
• Walloon: pet

Noun

peditum m

1. genitive plural of pedes (“foot soldier, infantryman”)

References

• “peditum”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• peditum in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
  • the flower of the infantry: robora peditum