- πεζός
- πεζόςGrammatical information: adj.Meaning: `going on foot, living on the land', of men and animals, `walker, foot-soldier', coll. `infantry, land-force' (Il.); metaph. `common, prosaic' (hell. a. late).Compounds: Often as 1. member, e.g. πεζο-μάχ-ᾱς, -ος `fighting as a foot-soldier' with -έω, -ία (Pi., IA.).Derivatives: πεζ-ικός `belonging to πεζός' (Att. etc.: ἱππικός, ναυτικός; details in Chantraine Études 126 w. n. 1), -ίτης m. = πεζός (Suid.: ὁπλίτης), -ότης, -ητος f. `the being πεζός' (Arist. -comm.); πεζ-εύω `to go on foot, to be a walker' (Att., Arist.) mit -ευτικός `going on foot' (Arist.).Origin: IE [Indo-European] [790] *ped- `foot'Etymology: But for the accent formally identical with Skt. pád-ya- `regarding the foot', IE *ped-i̯o-. (The suffix not with Schulze and Brugmann from the verb `to go', εἶ-μι (s. Schwyzer 472); in opposition to Lat. acu-ped-ius `quickfooted' with i̯o -enlargement as Norw. fior-fit `lizard' (prop. "four-footed"). Further s. πούς.Page in Frisk: 2,486-487
Greek-English etymological dictionary (Ελληνικά-Αγγλικά ετυμολογική λεξικό). Robert S.P.. 2010.