pedester

Latin

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /peˈdes.ter/, [pɛˈd̪ɛs̠t̪ɛr]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /peˈdes.ter/, [peˈd̪ɛst̪er]

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.

Number	Singular				Plural
Case / Gender	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

• French: piètre
• → English: pedestrian
• → French: pédestre,
• → Italian: pedestre
• → Portuguese: pedestre
• → Romanian: pedestru
• → 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