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lignipes

, ligni + pes.
Searchable Lemmata: lignipes (L).
Alternate Forms: lignipede, lignipedum, lignipedes.

    Definitions and Defining Citations:

1(n.) Footwear; with regard to cloth and clothing: a wooden shoe; a patten [from the adj. meaning 'that has a wooden foot'; (as a sub. m.) 'wooden-footed or wooden-legged man'].(circa 1294 - ante 1500)
1. verberavit R. ... cum uno lignipede Legal. [DMLBS CourtR Ramsey (213) 1294]
2. A patane [Monson: Patan]: Calapedium, lignipes, lignipedum Lexicon. (dating uncertain) [MED *Cath.Angl. ((Add 15562) 93a) circa 1475]
c.f.: lignipodium, patten
L; Primarily N/A.
Sex: Male    Use: n/a    Status: n/a    Rank: n/a    Ceremonial: No
Body Parts: Foot.

    Etymological Evidence:

Definite, Cf. lignipodium.
WF: Derivation
Etym Cog:
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