Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Being under the feet.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective obsolete Being under the feet.
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- adjective obsolete Beneath the
feet .
Etymologies
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sub- + Latin pes, pedis, a foot: compare Latin suppedaneum a footstool.
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Gammerstang commented on the word suppedaneous
(adjective) - (1) Being under the feet; from Latin pes, the foot.
--Rev. John Boag's Imperial Lexicon of the English Language, c.1850
(2) Applied to a mountain lying at the foot of another.
--Sir James Murray's New English Dictionary, 1919
January 16, 2018