Ancient Greek

Alternative forms

• πόρ ‎(pór) Laconian
• πός ‎(pós) Doric
• πῶς ‎(pôs)

Noun

πούς • ‎(poús) m ‎(genitive ποδός); third declension

1. (anatomy) foot
   1. (anatomy, by extension) leg
2. (unit of measure) Greek foot or pous, the ancient Greek and Byzantine unit of length originally based upon the length of a shod foot

Inflection

Usage notes

Homer also uses the dative plurals ποσσί ‎(possí) and πόδεσσι ‎(pódessi). In addition Epic Greek uses ποδοῖιν ‎(podoîin) as the genitive and dative dual.

Derived terms

• ὀκτώπους ‎(oktṓpous)

Descendants

• English: -pod
• Greek: πόδι ‎(pódi)

References

• πούς in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• πούς in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• πούς in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
• «πούς» in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• Bauer, Walter et al. (2001) A Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament and Other Early Christian Literature, Third edition, Chicago: University of Chicago Press
• «πούς» in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
• πούς in Slater, William J. (1969) Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter
• “G4228”, in Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible, 1979
• «πούς» in Trapp, Erich, et al. (1994–2007) Lexikon zur byzantinischen Gräzität besonders des 9.-12. Jahrhunderts [the Lexicon of Byzantine Hellenism, Particularly the 9th-12th Centuries], Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften
• Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English-Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
  • foot idem, page 333.
  • leg idem, page 484.
  • rope idem, page 721.
  • sheet idem, page 764.
  • step idem, page 815.