footing

== English == === Etymology === From Middle English fotyng; equivalent to foot +‎ -ing. === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /ˈfʊtɪŋ/ Rhymes: -ʊtɪŋ === Noun === footing (countable and uncountable, plural footings) A ground for the foot; place for the foot to rest on; firm foundation to stand on. A standing; position; established place; foothold. A relative condition; state. (dated) A tread; step; especially, a measured tread. (rare) A footprint or footprints; tracks, someone's trail. Stability or balance when standing on one's feet. The act of adding up a column of figures; the amount or sum total of such a column. The act of putting a foot to anything; also, that which is added as a foot A narrow cotton lace, without figures. The finer refuse part of whale blubber, not wholly deprived of oil. (architecture, engineering) The thickened or sloping portion of a wall, or of an embankment at its foot; foundation. (accounting) A double-check of the numbers vertically. ==== Derived terms ==== ==== Translations ==== === Verb === footing present participle and gerund of foot === References === == French == === Etymology === Pseudo-anglicism, from English foot (“foot, to walk”) +‎ -ing. === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /fu.tiŋ/ === Noun === footing m (uncountable) (France) exercise walking, jogging (as a form of exercise) Synonym: jogging 2014, Erin McCahan, Cool, Sweet, Hot, Love, Nathan (publ.), page 8. (North America, colloquial) footing === Further reading === “footing”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012 == Galician == === Etymology === From French footing, pseudo-anglicism, from English foot (“foot, to walk”) +‎ -ing. === Noun === footing m (uncountable) jogging (as a form of exercise), running == Italian == === Etymology === Unadapted borrowing from French footing, and this a pseudo-anglicism. === Pronunciation === === Noun === footing m (invariable) jogging == Spanish == === Etymology === Unadapted borrowing from French footing, and this a pseudo-anglicism, from English foot (“foot, to walk”) +‎ -ing. === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /ˈfutin/ [ˈfu.t̪ĩn] Rhymes: -utin === Noun === footing m (uncountable) jogging (as a form of exercise), running ==== Usage notes ==== According to Royal Spanish Academy (RAE) prescriptions, unadapted foreign words should be written in italics in a text printed in roman type, and vice versa, and in quotation marks in a manuscript text or when italics are not available. In practice, this RAE prescription is not always followed. === Further reading === “footing”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8.1, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 15 December 2025