semipedalis

A New Latin Dictionary by Charlton T. Lewis Ph.D. and Charles Short, LL. D.

sēmĭ-pĕdālis, e, adj.,

a half-foot in size , half a foot long , broad , etc.: apertura, Vitr. 10, 19; Col. 11, 3, 21: spatium, id. 12, 52, 4: altitudo, Plin. 26, 8, 42, § 69: truncus, id. 13, 4, 8, § 37: pisciculus, id. 32, 1, 1, § 3; cf. the foll. art.