child, children, offspring: pedophilia, pedobaptism
Origin of pedo-
from Classical Greek pais (gen. paidos), a child from Indo-European base an unverified form pou-, small, small animal, child from source few, foal
prefix
- Pedo is defined as relating to children.
An example of pedo is pedology, the study of children.
- Pedo is defined as soil.
An example of pedo is pedocal that relates to a type of soil that is lime-rich.
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pedo-
ground, soil, earth: pedocal
Origin of pedo-
from Classical Greek pedon, the ground from Indo-European base, an unverified form ped-, footWebster's New World College Dictionary, Fifth Edition Copyright © 2014 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.
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pedo-
or ped-
prefix
Soil: pedocal.
Origin of pedo-
From Greek pedon soil, earth ; see ped- in Indo-European roots.or ped- or paed- or paedo-
prefix
Child; children: pedodontics.
Origin of pedo-
Greek paido- from pais paid- child ; see pau- in Indo-European roots.THE AMERICAN HERITAGE® DICTIONARY OF THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE, FIFTH EDITION by the Editors of the American Heritage Dictionaries. Copyright © 2016, 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.
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Prefix
- relating to children
Usage notes
The -o is sometimes elided before a vowel.
Origin
From Ancient Greek παῖς (pais, “child").
Prefix
- relating to soil
Origin
From Ancient Greek Ï€Îδον (pedon, “ground").
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Sentence Examples
- ALBINOVANUS PEDO, Roman poet, flourished during the Augustan age.
- Three elegies were formerly attributed to Pedo by Scaliger; two on the death of Maecenas (In Obitum Maecenatis and De Verbis Maecenatis moribundi), and one addressed to Livia to console her for the death of her son Drusus (Consolatio ad Liviam de Morte Drusi or Epicedion Drusi, usually printed with Ovid's works); but it is now generally agreed that they are not by Pedo.
- (1875); Haube, Beitrag zur Kenntnis des Albinovanus Pedo (1880).
- He edited a number of classical authors: Pedo Albinovanus (1783), Pindar and the Scholia (1792-1795), Aristophanes (with others, 1794, &c.), Euripides (1778-1788), Apollonius Rhodius (1797), Demosthenes De Pace (1799), Plato (1813-1819), Cicero (1795-1807), Titus Calpurnius Siculus (1803).