Etymology

pedestal

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Today it means: The base or foot of a column, statue, vase, lamp. Full definition →

Middle French piédestal ← Italian piedistallo
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The story

  1. Italian · derived frompiedistallo
  2. Middle French · borrowed frompiédestal
  3. English todaypedestal

Borrowed from Middle French piédestal, itself borrowed from Italian piedistallo (literally “foot stand”). Spelling influenced by Latin pēs, pedem.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.