Peddler

Peddler: a walking salesman; a traveling trader; one who travels about, retailing small wares; a hawker; a huckster; a street vendor. These days, the word peddler may describe someone who sells illegal drugs, or stolen goods. Peddler shows up in English in the 1200’s....

Biped

Biped: a two footed animal. A two footed being. The Latin adverb bis, means twice, two, or two times. The Latin word for foot is pes. The genitive of foot is pedis. Combine both and you end up with biped, a two footed creature. According to Plato, man is a featherless...

Foot words

I am increasingly stunned by the debt English owes to Latin and Greek.  Perhaps this is simply because I never seriously studied vocabulary as a child.  Perhaps this, for everyone else, is general knowledge.  Perhaps everyone knows Latin and Greek dumped boatloads of...