semiped

From Latin semipes, semipedis, from semi- (“half”) + pes, pedis (“a foot”).

semiped (plural semipeds)

1. (poetry) Half of a metrical foot.

   Synonym: half foot

• “semiped”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

• impedes, impeeds