pedes
Britishnoun
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Originally planning to be a surgeon or obstetrician-gynecologist, she chose pediatrics after her spouse pointed out that she never wanted to come home from the hospital when she was on rotation in the “pedes” unit.
From Washington Times
As the court was just about to open it fell to my lot to take the road back to Rostock per pedes.
From Project Gutenberg
The most absurd thing was, that not having any friends in Baden, he was driven to return "per pedes" to his university, a distance of more than one hundred miles.
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The measure of quantity is put after adjectives, in the accusative, the ablative, and the genitive case, as Anguis centum pedes longus: A snake a hundred feet long.
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Willis, from whom the above dimensions are quoted, does not attempt to reconcile the figures except in so far as he suggests pedes for passus, substituting one foot for five.
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