Etymology

-ped

Today it means: Suffix indicating an organism or person with a specified number or type of feet. Full definition →

French ‑pède ← Latin pedis
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The story

  1. Latin · borrowed frompedis
  2. French · borrowed from‑pède
  3. English today-ped

Partly from French ‑pède and partly from Latin pedis (genitive of pēs (“foot”)).

Words from the same roots

Latinpedis all →

morpion

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.