English Explanatory Dictionary

ex pede Herculem

English dictionary entry

Meanings

phrase
  1. A maxim of proportionality: one can extrapolate the size of a thing from the size of a part.

Word forms

ex pede Herculem

Etymology

Latin [Term?] (literally “from his foot, [we can measure] Hercules”)

Related words

ex ungue leonem
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