- centipede (n.)
[centipede 词源字典]
- 1640s, from French centipède, from Latin centipeda "many-footed insect," from centum "hundred" (see hundred) + pedis, genitive of pes "foot," from PIE root *ped- (1) "a foot" (see foot (n.)).[centipede etymology, centipede origin, 英语词源]