- greek foot
- noun
Usage: usually capitalized G: an ancient Greek unit of length equal to 1.012 English feet
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Foot (unit) — 1 foot = SI units 0.3048 m 304.8 mm US customary / Imperial units 0.333 yd 12 in A foot (plural: feet; abbreviation or symbol: ft or ′ (the prime symbol) is a unit of length in a number of different systems including … Wikipedia
foot — (ft or ) a traditional unit of distance. Almost every culture has used the human foot as a unit of measurement. The natural foot (pes naturalis in Latin), an ancient unit based on the length of actual feet, is about 25 centimeters (9.8 inches) … Dictionary of units of measurement
Greek temple — Greek temples (Ancient Greek: polytonic|ὁ ναός , gr. ho naós dwelling , semantically distinct from Latin la. templum temple ) were structures built to house the cult statues within Greek sanctuaries. The temples themselves did usually not… … Wikipedia
Greek arithmetic, geometry and harmonics: Thales to Plato — Ian Mueller INTRODUCTION: PROCLUS’ HISTORY OF GEOMETRY In a famous passage in Book VII of the Republic starting at Socrates proposes to inquire about the studies (mathēmata) needed to train the young people who will become leaders of the ideal… … History of philosophy
Greek Church — • Details the history and various divisions of the church Catholic Encyclopedia. Kevin Knight. 2006. Greek Church Greek Church † … Catholic encyclopedia
Foot (prosody) — The foot is the basic metrical unit that generates a line of verse in most Western traditions of poetry, including English accentual syllabic verse and the quantitative meter of classical ancient Greek and Latin poetry. The unit is composed of… … Wikipedia
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foot — /fʊt / (say foot) noun (plural feet for defs 1 21, foots for def. 22) 1. (in vertebrates) the terminal part of the leg, below the ankle joint, on which the body stands and moves. 2. (in invertebrates) any part similar in position or function. 3.… …
foot — I. noun (plural feet; also foot) Etymology: Middle English fot, from Old English fōt; akin to Old High German fuot foot, Latin ped , pes, Greek pod , pous Date: before 12th century 1. the terminal part of the vertebrate leg upon which an… … New Collegiate Dictionary
foot — [OE] Foot traces its ancestry back to Indo European *pōd , *ped , which provided the word for ‘foot’ in most modern Indo European languages (the exceptions are the Slavic languages, whose ‘foot’ – words, such as Russian noga and Czech noha, come… … The Hutchinson dictionary of word origins
