Ancient Greek word root · Body & Health

pod-: foot

pod- is an Ancient Greek root meaning “foot”. Learn its variants and explore 5 connected words.

Meaning and variants

Meaning: foot

Root forms: pod-, -pod, -pus

Source word: πούς — foot

Word family and examples

• tripod

  a three-legged stand for supporting a camera or other apparatus

• arthropod

  An invertebrate animal of the phylum Arthropoda, characterized by a chitinous exoskeleton and multiple jointed appendages.

• podiatry

  Chiropody.

• cephalopod

  Any mollusc of the class Cephalopoda, which includes squid, cuttlefish, octopus, nautiloids etc.

• podiatric

  Of or pertaining to podiatry, the medical specialty concerned with the foot

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