pes
English
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /peɪ̯s/
Audio (Southern England) (file) - Rhymes: -eɪs
- Homophone: pace
Noun
pes (plural pedes)
Synonyms
- (neume): podatus
Catalan
Etymology 1
Inherited from Old Catalan pes, from Latin pēnsum.
Pronunciation
Noun
pes m (plural pesos)
Derived terms
Related terms
References
- “pes” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
- “pes” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.
Czech
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [ˈpɛs]
audio (file) - Hyphenation: pes
- Rhymes: -ɛs
Noun
Declension
Derived terms
- hlídací pes
- honicí pes
- chování řeznického psa
- mnoho psů, zajícova smrt
- pejsánek
- pejsek
- psí
- psoun
- starého psa novým kouskům nenaučíš
Further reading
Etymology 2
See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
Alternative forms
Friulian
Alternative forms
- peš (alternative spelling)
Indonesian
Etymology
From Dutch pest, from Middle French peste (whence French peste), ultimately from Latin pestis.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [ˈpɛs]
- Hyphenation: pès
Further reading
- “pes” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016.
Latin


Etymology
From Proto-Italic *pets, from Proto-Indo-European *pṓds (compare Sanskrit पद् (pád), Ancient Greek πούς (poús) and Old English fōt, whence English foot).
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /peːs/, [peːs̠]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /pes/, [pɛs]
Noun
pēs m (genitive pedis); third declension
- a foot, in its senses as
- (anatomy) a human foot
- … ne manus, nec pedes, nec alia membra …
- … not the hands, not the feet, and not the other limbs …
- 8 CE, Ovid, Fasti 6.395–397:
- Forte revertēbar fēstīs Vestālibus illa [...].
hūc pede mātrōnam vīdī dēscendere nūdō.- It so happened that I was returning from the festival of Vesta [...]. Here I saw a matron coming down barefoot.
(Literally, in the ablative singular: “pede nūdō” or “with bare foot.” Roman matrons walked barefoot to honor Vesta (mythology) during the Vestalia.)
- It so happened that I was returning from the festival of Vesta [...]. Here I saw a matron coming down barefoot.
- Forte revertēbar fēstīs Vestālibus illa [...].
- (zoology) any equivalent body part of an animal, including hooves, paws, etc.
- (units of measure) any of various units of length notionally based on the adult human foot, especially (historical) the Roman foot.
- (poetry) a metrical foot: the basic unit of metered poetry
- 8 CE – 12 CE, Ovid, Sorrows 1.15–16:
- vāde, liber, verbīsque meīs loca grāta salūtā:
contingam certē quō licet illa pede!- Go, [my] book, and greet with my words [those] beloved places: at least I shall reach [them] with the ‘foot’ that is allowed!
(The exiled poet puns that the metrical “feet” of his poem shall go where his own “feet” cannot.)
- Go, [my] book, and greet with my words [those] beloved places: at least I shall reach [them] with the ‘foot’ that is allowed!
- vāde, liber, verbīsque meīs loca grāta salūtā:
- (anatomy) a human foot
- (figuratively) a place to tread one's foot: territory, ground, soil
- (nautical) a rope attached to a sail in order to set
- (music) tempo, pace, time
- (botany) the pedicel or stalk of a fruit
Declension
Third-declension noun.
Case | Singular | Plural |
---|---|---|
Nominative | pēs | pedēs |
Genitive | pedis | pedum |
Dative | pedī | pedibus |
Accusative | pedem | pedēs |
Ablative | pede | pedibus |
Vocative | pēs | pedēs |
Hyponyms
- (metrical foot): trochaeus; pes dissyllbus or disyllbus, pes bibrevis, choreus, jambus, spondeus, spondius, spondeos (2-syllable feet); pes trisyllabus, amphibrachus, amphibrachys, amphimacrus, dactylus, extensipes, molossus, pes anapaestus, pes antanapaestus, pes antibacchius, pes bacchius, pes creticus, pes hippius (3-syllable feet); pes tetrasyllbus, antispastus, chorjambus, dichoreus, dijambus, dispondeus, epitritus, paeon, proceleumaticus, proceleusmaticus (4-syllable feet); pes pentasyllbus, dochmius, mesobrachys, mesomacros, pariambodes, probrachys, pes amoebaeus, pes antamoebaeus, pes orthius (5-syllable feet)
Meronyms
- (unit of length): decempeda (10 pedes)
Derived terms
- adversipedes
- aenipes
- aeripes
- agipes
- alipes
- anguipes
- antepes
- avipes
- bipeda
- bipēs
- capripes
- celeripēs
- centipeda
- centipes
- citipes
- compes
- cornipes
- decempeda
- decempeda
- fissipes
- flammipes
- flexipes
- gracilipes
- hircipes
- ignipes
- lanipes
- latipes
- lentipes
- levipes
- longipes
- loripes
- milepeda
- mollipēs
- multipeda
- octipes
- palmipes
- peda
- pedeplana
- pedepressim
- pedetemptim
- pedica
- pedicinus
- pediculus
- pedisequus
- pedocucullus
- pedum
- pedālis
- pedāneus
- pedārius
- pedātim
- pedātus
- pedātūra
- pedēs
- pedō
- pedūlis
- planipes
- plumipes
- properipes
- quadrupēs
- remipes
- segnipes
- semipes
- septipes
- serpentipes
- sesquipedalis
- sesquipes
- solidipes
- sonipes
- stapēs
- suppes
- tardipes
- tremipes
- tripudium
- uncipes
- unipes
- volucripes
Descendants
- Balkan Romance:
- Dalmatian:
- Italo-Romance
- Rhaeto-Romance:
- Padanian:
- Northern Gallo-Romance:
- Southern Gallo-Romance:
- Ibero-Romance:
- Sardinian:
- Derived forms:
- ⇒ Vulgar Latin: *pedicāre
- Catalan: petjar
- ⇒ Vulgar Latin: *pedicāre
- Borrowings:
- →⇒ German: stante pede
See also
- pede tellūrem pulsō
- pedem effero
- pedem fero
- pedem refero
- pedes navales
- si in fundo pedem posuisses
- a pedibus usque ad caput
- alterno pede terram quatere
References
- "pes", in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- "pes", in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- pes in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
- pes in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- “pes”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
- “pes”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin
Middle English
Old Czech
Etymology
Inherited from Proto-Slavic *pьsъ.
Declension
singular | dual | plural | |
---|---|---|---|
nominative | pes | psy | psi, psové |
genitive | psa, psu | psú | psóv |
dative | psu, psovi | psoma | psóm |
accusative | pes, psa | psy | psy |
vocative | pse | psy | psi, psové |
locative | psě, psu, psovi | psú | psiech |
instrumental | psem | psoma | psy |
See also Appendix:Old Czech nouns and Appendix:Old Czech pronunciation.
Descendants
- Czech: pes
Further reading
- Jan Gebauer (1903–1916) “pes”, in Slovník staročeský (in Czech), Prague: Česká grafická společnost "unie", Česká akademie císaře Františka Josefa pro vědy, slovesnost a umění
Old French
Romani
Alternative forms
Etymology
Inherited from Sauraseni Prakrit [script needed] (appa),[1] [script needed] (atta),[1] from Sanskrit आत्मन् (ātman).[1]
Descendants
- Kalo Finnish Romani: pes
See also
Number | Person | Gender | Nominative | Accusative | Dative | Locative | Ablative | Instrumental | Possessive |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Singular | First | — | me | man | manqe | manθe | manθar | mança | miro, -i, -e |
Second | — | tu | tut | tuqe | tuθe | tuθar | tuça | tiro, -i, -e | |
Reflexive third | — | — | pes | pesqe | pesθe | pesθar | peça | pesqero, -i, -e | |
Third | Masculine | ov | les | lesqe | lesθe | lesθar | leça | lesqero, -i, -e | |
Feminine | oj | la | laqe | laθe | laθar | laça | laqero, -i, -e | ||
Plural | First | — | amen | amenqe | amenθe | amenθar | amença | amaro, -i, -e | |
Second | — | tumen | tumenqe | tumenθe | tumenθar | tumença | tumaro, -i, -e | ||
Reflexive third | — | — | pen | penqe | penθe | penθar | pença | penqero, -i, -e | |
Third | — | on | len | lenqe | lenθe | lenθar | lença | lenqero, -i, -e |
Number | Person | Gender | Nominative | Accusative (long and short forms) | Dative | Locative | Ablative | Instrumental | Possessive |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Singular | First | — | me | man, ma | mánge | mánde | mándar | mánsa | múrro m, múrri f, múrre pl |
Second | — | tu | tut, tu | túke | túte | tútar | túsa | tíro m, tíri f, tíre pl | |
Reflexive third | — | — | pês, pe | pêske | pêste | pêstar | pêsa | pêsko m, pêski f, pêske pl | |
Third | Masculine | wo | lês, le | lêske | lêste | lêstar | lêsa | lêsko m, lêski f, lêske pl | |
Feminine | woi | la, la | láke | láte | látar | lása | láko m, láki f, láke pl | ||
Plural | First | — | ame | amên, ame | amênge | amênde | amêndar | amênsa | amáro m, amári f, amáre pl |
Second | — | tume | tumên, tume | tumênge | tumênde | tumêndar | tumênsa | tumáro m, tumári f, tumáre pl | |
Reflexive third | — | — | pên, pe | pênge | pênde | pêndar | pênsa | pêngo m, pêngi f, pênge pl | |
Third | — | won | lên, le | lênge | lênde | lêndar | lênsa | lêngo m, lêngi f, lênge pl |
References
- Boretzky, Norbert, Igla, Birgit (1994) “pe(s)”, in Wörterbuch Romani-Deutsch-Englisch für den südosteuropäischen Raum : mit einer Grammatik der Dialektvarianten [Romani-German-English dictionary for the Southern European region] (in German), Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag, →ISBN, page 215a
Slovak
Etymology
Inherited from Proto-Slavic *pьsъ.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈpɛs/
Declension
Further reading
- “pes”, in Slovníkový portál Jazykovedného ústavu Ľ. Štúra SAV [Dictionary portal of the Ľ. Štúr Institute of Linguistics, Slovak Academy of Science] (in Slovak), https://slovnik.juls.savba.sk, 2024
Slovene

Etymology
From Proto-Slavic *pьsъ.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /pə́s/
- (central Slovenia) IPA(key): /pɛ́s/
Noun
pə̏s m anim (female equivalent psíca)
- dog
- (zoology) any of the species in family Canidae
- (zoology, in the plural) family Canidae
- (zoology, uncountable) genus Canis
- (figuratively, derogatory) a malicious person[→SSKJ]
- Synonyms: hudobnež, hudič, hudičevec, hudiman, hudimar, hudir, hudoba, hudobijan, hudobni, hudobnik, leviatan, mefisto, pasjeglavec, peklenšček, pesjan, pesjanar, peslajnar, pošast, pošastnik, psoglavec, satan, satanov služabnik, steklač, strupenec, strupenjak, škorpijon, vrag, zlobec, zlobnež, zlodej, zlodejevec, zlohotnež, zlomek, žlehtnoba
- Antonyms: dobričina, angel, dobrosrčnež, dobričnež, dobričnik, duša, dušica, mehkosrčnež, milosrčnež, svetnik
- (theater) unimportant role
- Synonym: stranska vloga
- Antonym: glavna vloga
Declension
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First masculine declension (hard o-stem, animate) , short ending accent, fill vowel ə | |||
---|---|---|---|
nom. sing. | pə̏s | ||
gen. sing. | psȁ | ||
singular | dual | plural | |
nominative imenovȃlnik |
pə̏s | psȁ | psȉ |
genitive rodȋlnik |
psȁ | psȍv, psóv | psȍv, psóv |
dative dajȃlnik |
psȕ, psȉ | psȍma, psomȁ | psȍm |
accusative tožȋlnik |
psȁ | psȁ | psȅ |
locative mẹ̑stnik |
psȕ, psȉ | psȉh | psȉh |
instrumental orọ̑dnik |
psȍm | psȍma, psomȁ | psȉ |
(vocative) (ogȏvorni imenovȃlnik) |
pə̏s | psȁ | psȉ |
- dialectal
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First masculine declension (hard o-stem, animate) , fixed accent, vowel is only written in nominative singular | |||
---|---|---|---|
nom. sing. | pə̏s | ||
gen. sing. | psa | ||
singular | dual | plural | |
nominative imenovȃlnik |
pə̏s | psa | psi |
genitive rodȋlnik |
psa | psov | psov |
dative dajȃlnik |
psu, psi | psoma, psama | psom, psam |
accusative tožȋlnik |
psa | psa | pse |
locative mẹ̑stnik |
psu, psi | psih, psah | psih, psah |
instrumental orọ̑dnik |
psom | psoma, psama | psi |
(vocative) (ogȏvorni imenovȃlnik) |
pə̏s | psa | psi |
Derived terms
- biti kot pes in mačka
- dosti psov je zajčja smrt
- enkrat z betom, drugič s psom
- gledati kot pes in mačka
- izgovor je dober, tudi če ga pes na repu prinese
- leteči pes
- morski pes
- na psu
- naj se pes obesi
- nemi pes
- ni pes
- odložiti psa
- pes koga povoha
- pes vedi
- pes, ki laja, ne grize
- pesják
- pesjȃn
- pesjȃnski
- pod psom
- prerijski pes
- priti na psa
- privoščiti psu
- psár
- psíca
- psȃrna
- psȉč
- psȋčar
- psȋčarka
- psȋčkar
- psȋčək
- pásji
- še pes ima rad pri jedi mir
- šolani pes
- tak, da bi se še pes obesil
- vedeti, kam pes taco moli
- Veliki pes
- vzgajati psa
See also
Spanish
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈpes/ [ˈpes]
- Rhymes: -es
- Syllabification: pes
- Homophone: (Latin America) pez
Tok Pisin
Noun
pes
- (anatomy) face
- 1989, Buk Baibel long Tok Pisin, Port Moresby: Bible Society of Papua New Guinea, Jenesis 3:19:
- Na bai yu wok hat tru long kisim kaikai bilong yu na tuhat bai i kamap long pes bilong yu. Na bai yu hatwok oltaim inap yu dai na yu go bek long graun. Long wanem, mi bin wokim yu long graun, na bai yu go bek gen long graun.”
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Torres Strait Creole
Etymology 1
From English face.
Turkish
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈpes/
- Hyphenation: pes
Etymology 1
Inherited from Ottoman Turkish بس (bes, “Enough! Hold!”, interj.),[1][2] from Persian بس (bas, “enough”).
Interjection
Pes!
- Used when accepting defeat; "I yield!" or "Uncle!"
- Used when at a loss for words at someone's extraordinary behavior or action; "I don't even know what to say!", "This is too much!" or "This takes the cake!"
- Yalanın bu kadarına da pes doğrusu! ― To be honest, I don't even know what to say about such a lie!
Derived terms
- pes demek
- pes etmek
Etymology 2
Inherited from Ottoman Turkish پس (pes, “low and soft or bass voice or tone”),[3][4] from Persian پست (past, “low, abject”).[5]
Alternative forms
Derived terms
- pes perde
- pes ses
- pespaye
Etymology 3
Inherited from Ottoman Turkish پس (pes, “the hinder part, back of a thing, pursuit after a thing”), from Persian پس (pas, “back, hind; then, so, therefore”).
Adverb
pes
- (obsolete) then, so, in that case
- Synonyms: öyleyse, o hâlde, binaenaleyh
- (obsolete) then, after, afterwards
- (obsolete) in summary, in short, in conclusion
- (obsolete) when, whenever, as soon as
References
- Redhouse, James W. (1890) “بس”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 363
- Kélékian, Diran (1911) “بس”, in Dictionnaire turc-français, Constantinople: Mihran, page 265
- Redhouse, James W. (1890) “پس”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 447
- Kélékian, Diran (1911) “پس”, in Dictionnaire turc-français, Constantinople: Mihran, page 322
- Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “pes”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
Further reading
- “pes”, in Turkish dictionaries, Türk Dil Kurumu
- Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “pes”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 3833