Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

pedale

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: ped-al-e
IPA

9

Scrabble Score

6

Letters

3

Syllables

5

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A foot-cloth in front of an altar.

noun

A collection of canons of general councils in the Greek Orthodox Church.

Etymology

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *ped- Proto-Indo-European *-s Proto-Indo-European *pṓds Proto-Italic *pets Latin pēs Proto-Indo-European *h₂el- Proto-Indo-European *-is Proto-Indo-European *h₂élisder.? Proto-Italic *-ālis Latin -ālis Latin pedālislbor. English pedale Learned borrowing from Latin pedālis (neuter pedāle, plural pedālia).

Inflected Forms

pedalia (plural)

Questions

What does pedale mean?: A foot-cloth in front of an altar.
Where does pedale come from?: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *ped- Proto-Indo-European *-s Proto-Indo-European *pṓds Proto-Italic *pets Latin pēs Proto-Indo-European *h₂el- Proto-Indo-European *-is Proto-Indo-European *h₂élisder.? Proto-Italic *-ālis Latin -ālis Latin pedālislbor. English pedale Learned borrowing from Latin pedālis (neuter pedāle, plural pedālia).

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