Pedester

Part of speech: noun

Definitions

1. An archaic term for something or someone that goes about on foot rather than riding or being carried
2. Describing a person or journey that moves by walking instead of using a horse or vehicle
3. Relating to travel on foot, as with a walker making a trip by his own steps

Etymology: The Latin adjective "pedester" meant "on foot," and it came from "pes," the word for foot. Roman writers applied it to soldiers who fought on foot rather than on horseback, and to ordinary travel as opposed to riding. Its near relative "pedestris" carried the same sense and gave English "pedestrian." English later borrowed the adjective and used it for people walking, while "pedestrian" itself drifted toward meaning plodding or unimaginative, as if a walker's pace matched a dull style.