foot (a part of the body); English or American foot (a unit of length equal to 30.48 cm); pie, a Spanish foot (a former unit of length equivalent to about 27.9 cm); foot (a part of a poetic line); foot, base
“Un permiso para escalar el monte Everest de 8.849 metros (29.032 pies) costará US$ 15.000, dijo Narayan Prasad Regmi, director general del Departamento de Turismo, anunciando un aumento del 36% en la tarifa de US$ 11.000 que ha estado vigente durante casi una década.”
Synonyms: pata, tercia
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *ped- Proto-Indo-European *-s Proto-Indo-European *pṓds Proto-Italic *pets Latin pedem Old Spanish pie Spanish pie Inherited from Old Spanish pie, from Latin pedem. Cognate with Asturian pie, Galician and Portuguese pé, Catalan peu, and further English foot. As an English unit, a semantic loan from English foot.