The story
- Proto-Indo-European · derived from*pléh₂-n̥t-eh₂
- Latin · derived fromplanta“sole of the foot”
- French · borrowed fromplantigrade
- English todayplantigrade
From French plantigrade, from Latin planta (“sole of the foot”) (from Proto-Indo-European *pléh₂-n̥t-eh₂, from *pleh₂- (“flat”)) + -grade, from Latin gradus (“pace, step”).
Words from the same roots
Latinplanta all →
plantclanplantalaminiplantarplanto-plantule
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.