- pedometer
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[pedometer 词源字典] - pedometer: see pedal
[pedometer etymology, pedometer origin, 英语词源] - pedometer (n.)
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- instrument for measuring distances covered by a walker, 1723, from French pédomètre (1712), a hybrid coined from Latin pedis (genitive of pes "foot;" see foot (n.)) + Greek metron "a measure" (see meter (n.2)). At first Englished as waywiser.