plantigrade

English

Etymology

From French plantigrade, from Latin planta (“sole of the foot”) (from Proto-Indo-European *pléh₂-n̥t-eh₂, from Proto-Indo-European *pleh₂- (“flat”)) + gradus (“pace, step”) (from Proto-Indo-European *gʰredʰ- (“to go, to walk”)).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈplæntɪɡɹeɪd/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈplæntəˌɡɹeɪd/, [ˈpleə̯ɾ̃əˌɡɹeɪ̯d]
• Hyphenation: plan‧ti‧grade

Adjective

plantigrade (not comparable)

1. (zoology) Of an animal: walking with the entire sole of the foot on the ground.

Translations

walking with the entire sole of the foot

• Bulgarian: който ходи на цяло стъпало (kojto hodi na cjalo stǎpalo), плоскостъпен (ploskostǎpen)
• Catalan: plantígrad
• French: plantigrade (fr)
• Greek: πελματοβάμων (el) (pelmatovámon)
• Hungarian: talponjáró
• Ido: plantigrada (io)
• Irish: bonnsiúlach
• Italian: plantigrado (it) m
• Japanese: 蹠行の (しょこうの, shokō no)
• Russian: стопоходя́щий (ru) (stopoxodjáščij), плоскосто́пный (ploskostópnyj)
• Spanish: plantígrado (es)
• Swedish: plantigrad, hälgående
• Welsh: gwadnrodiol (cy)

Noun

plantigrade (plural plantigrades)

1. (zoology) A plantigrade animal; an animal that walks with the entire sole of the foot on the ground.

Translations

animal that walks with the entire sole of the foot

• Breton: palvgerzher m
• Catalan: plantígrad m
• Dutch: zoolganger m
• Finnish: kanta-astuja
• French: plantigrade (fr)
• German: Fersengänger m, Sohlengänger (de) m
• Greek: πελματοβάμονα (el) n pl (pelmatovámona)
• Hungarian: talponjáró
• Ido: plantigrado (io)
• Italian: plantigrado (it) m
• Japanese: 蹠行動物 (しょこうどうぶつ, shokō dōbutsu)
• Spanish: plantígrado (es) m
• Swedish: hälgångare (sv) c
• Welsh: gwadnrodiwr m

Coordinate terms

• digitigrade
• unguligrade

Further reading

• plantigrade locomotion on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

French

Adjective

plantigrade (plural plantigrades)

1. plantigrade

Noun

plantigrade m (plural plantigrades)

1. plantigrade

Further reading

• “plantigrade”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Italian

Adjective

plantigrade

1. feminine plural of plantigrado