pes

Estimated CEFR level: C2 — Proficiency

Estimated from word frequency; not an official CEFR classification.

Definition

From Latin pēs (“foot”). Doublet of foot, pie (“Spanish unit of length”), and pous.

Doubtless she advised him well, rather to look to himself than to gaze at heaven; for, as Democritus says, by the mouth of Cicero,-- Quod est ante pedes, nemo spectat: coeli scrutantur plagas. — Essays of Michel de Montaigne — Complete, Michel de Montaigne
Farewell mother!” mimicked the gestures of persons drinking and swimming, significantly alluding to the deaths of Claudius and Agrippina: and on uttering the last clause, Orcus vobis ducit pedes; You stand this moment on the brink of Orcus; he plainly intimated his application of it to the precarious position of the senate. — The Lives of the Twelve Caesars, Complete, Suetonius

foot, human foot

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