English
pedestrial
Pedestrial comes from Latin pedester ‘walking, pedestrian, on foot’, and goes back to pedis.
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEpedis‘a foot’
- Latin, derivedc. 75 BCE–200 CEpedester‘walking, pedestrian, on foot’
- Englishearliest quotation 1611pedestrial
attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed
Earlier history not traced here.
Lineage
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEpedis‘a foot’
- Latin, derivedc. 75 BCE–200 CEpedester‘walking, pedestrian, on foot’
- Englishearliest quotation 1611pedestrial
Earliest quotation: 1611, Thomas Coryate, Italy: “Having now so amply declared unto thee most of…”
Linked words
through Latin pedis ‘a foot’
dispatch, expedition, peach, expedite, pedantry, pedant, 14 more
Today it means
adj Of or pertaining to the feet or walking; using or for use by the foot or feet.
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / Latin pedis / pedestrial