- The
English word "foot" is a
translation of the
Latin term pes,
plural pedes,
which in turn is a
translation of the
Ancient Gr**** πούς, pl. πόδες. The...
- Look up
pede or
pédé in Wiktionary, the free dictionary.
Pede is a surname, and may
refer to:
Hendrik van
Pede,
architect of
Oudenaarde Town Hall, Belgium...
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Charles Nicholas Pede is a
military lawyer and
retired United States Army
lieutenant general who last
served as the 40th
Judge Advocate General of the...
- Ex
pede Herculem, "from his foot, [we can measure] Hercules", is a
maxim of
proportionality inspired by an
experiment attributed to Pythagoras. According...
- Jean
Pede (7
January 1927 – 23 July 2013) was a
Belgian liberal politician for the PVV.
Professionally Jean
Pede was a notary, in a long line of notaries...
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Peter Ankjær Bigaard,
better known by his
stage name
Pede B (born in 1984), is a
Danish rapper originating from ****erup.
Starting rapping at a
young age...
- do****ented. The
basic unit of
Roman linear measurement was the pes (plural:
pedes) or
Roman foot.
Investigation of its
relation to the
English foot goes back...
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usually equal to 10
Roman feet (
pedes), or
approximately 2.96 meters. The
variants of
pertica contained 12 and 15
pedes.
Isidore of
Seville (per Codex...
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appears at
first sight to be
random and meaningless: "Peregrinus expectavi,
pedes meos in cymbalis" [A
pilgrim I waited, my feet in cymbals]
According to...
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Caesar heard of this from
deserters and captives, he dug a
trench twenty pedes (6 metres, 19
modern feet) with
perpendicular sides and
built all the other...
