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crepidae

crepidae is the plural of crepida.

Meaning of crepida

Noun

crepida (plural crepidae)

  1. (Ancient-Rome, Ancient Greece) A type of footwear consisting of a sole attached to the foot with fairly elaborate straps, distinguished by the Ancient Greeks and Ancient Romans from sandals proper but now usually considered a style of sandal.
    • There was likewise found an abundant variety of shoes; the heavy caliga, or sandal, worn by the Roman soldiers, studded under the sole with large-headed nails, the calceus or buskin (3) and the more delicate crepida (4), or slipper looped in the leather on each side of the instep, in like manner...1854, “Ancient London.—No. IX.”, in The Home Friend; A Weekly Miscellany of Amusement and Instruction, volume IV, number 91, London: […] Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge […], pages 300–301

Origin of crepidae

Learned borrowing from Latin crepidae.

Questions about crepidae

What is crepidae the plural of?
Crepidae is the plural of crepida.

Words near crepidae in the dictionary

  1. crepes
  2. crepes de Chine
  3. crepes suzette
  4. crepey
  5. crepida
  6. crepidae
  7. crepidoma
  8. crepidomas
  9. crepidomata
  10. crepidotaceous
  11. crepier

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