Pedestrianised

Part of speech: verb

Definitions

1. The conversion of a space to accommodate only individuals traveling by foot The alteration of an area to remove vehicle access, thereby enhancing pedestrian access and safety The restructuring of a locale to ensure it is exclusively navigable by walkers and not by cars or other vehicles
2. Altered to restrict vehicle entry, allowing only walking traffic in the area
3. Changed to create a zone accessible solely to people on foot, eliminating cars

Etymology: Pedestrianise is a verb built from "pedestrian" plus the suffix "-ise", and the path to "pedestrian" runs through Latin and French before English. The Latin "pedester" meant "going on foot", built from "pes" (genitive "pedis"), the word for foot. It passed through Medieval Latin "pedestrianus" and Old French into English, where "pedestrian" first described a person walking rather than riding, and only later came to mean an ordinary, unimaginative thing. The suffix "-ise" has its own path. It descends from Ancient Greek verbs ending in "-izein", passed into Late Latin as "-izare", and reached English through Middle French, where it was spelled "-iser" and then "-ise". English speakers used it freely to form verbs from nouns and adjectives, which is how a word for a walker became a verb for turning a street over to walkers. The result is a fairly recent formation. Its meaning is simply the act of closing an area to vehicles and leaving it for people on foot, so the word describes a plan rather than a mood.

Synonyms: walkable, foot-traffic, pedestrian-friendly