fulcipedia

== Latin == === Etymology === From fulciō (“to prop up”) +‎ pēs (“foot”). === Pronunciation === (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [fʊɫ.kɪˈpɛ.di.a] (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [ful̠ʲ.t͡ʃiˈpɛː.di.a] === Noun === fulcipedia f (genitive fulcipediae); first declension (hapax legomenon) The meaning of this term is uncertain. Possibilities include: 'propfoot, of a drunken woman, who needs support', as defined in the Lewis and Short Latin Dictionary a woman 'standing on her dignity', according to the Oxford Latin Dictionary high-heeled hussy, as rendered in Michael Heseltine's 1913 Loeb Classical Library translation ==== Declension ==== First-declension noun. ==== Related terms ==== fulciō fulcrum === References === “fulcipedia”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press “fulcipedia”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette. fulcipedia in the Oxford Latin Dictionary, Oxford 1968