Greek foot

名词 n.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. The ancient Greek, Byzantine, or early modern Greek unit of distance derived from the shod foot and roughly equivalent to the English foot unit.
  2. A foot with a second toe longer than the hallux. countable
  3. Morton's toe countable,uncountable

词形变化

Greek feet plural Greek feet plural

词源

词源 1
Calque of Ancient Greek πούς (poús, “foot”), qualified to distinguish it from other measures of the foot.
词源 2
From Greek artists' preference for bare feet exhibiting a second toe longer than the hallux, as opposed to the Egyptian statues which used a longer big toe.
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