pied

Meaning

1. foot
2. leg, foot (projection on the bottom of a piece of equipment to support it)
3. an old unit of measure equal to 32.5 centimetres
4. Translation for English foot (approx. 30.5 centimetres)
5. foot

Gender

♂️ Masculine

Pronounced as (IPA)

/pje/

Etymology

Inherited from Middle French pied, from Old French pié, from Latin pedem. The -d was added to the spelling in Middle French after the Latin form.
Cognate with Italian piede, Catalan peu, Spanish pie, Portuguese pé, and further with English foot, Lithuanian pėda, Persian پا (pâ) etc.

Sentences

Le pied est généralement de couleur crème .

The foot is usually cream coloured.

Au pied de la montagne se trouve le Koge-ji.

At the foot of the mountain is Koge-ji.

Mais elle n'avait que le pied gauche brûlé légèrement .

But she only had her left foot slightly burned.