Adam Williamson wrote:
On Sat, 2002-09-21 at 05:04, Tom Parmenter wrote:
Both pediatrician and pedophile come from the Greek prefix paedo- meaning "child".
This is why those of us living in *EDUCATED* countries still spell them "paediatrician" and "paedophile".
;)
I believe the root produced by "pedis", meaning "foot", is "podi" - "podiatrics" being stuff to do with feet, and "podiatrist" being someone who looks after your feet.
Foot doctoring is "podiatry" but "ped-" roots are just as common, e.g. "pedal" and "pedicure". The most interesting of the "pod" words though is "antipodes". The islands with this name, a part of New Zealand, are about as far away on the globe as you can get from England. Ec