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noun
The ancient Greek, Byzantine, or early modern Greek unit of distance derived from the shod foot and roughly equivalent to the English foot unit.
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noun
A foot with a second toe longer than the hallux.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable
Topics: art, arts
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noun
Morton's toe
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
Topics: medicine, sciences
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History
Calque of Ancient Greek πούς (poús, “foot”), qualified to distinguish it from other measures of the foot.
From Greek artists' preference for bare feet exhibiting a second toe longer than the hallux, as opposed to the Egyptian statues which used a longer big toe.
