English

Noun

suppedaneum ‎(plural suppedanea)

1. a foot-support for a crucified person, projecting from the base of the cross
   • 2002: At the center of the O, a nimbed Christ is fixed to a cross with a large serpent coiled at its base, his feet on a suppedaneum. — Celia Chazell, Reading Medieval Images, ed. Thelma Thomas & Elizabeth Sears (University of Michigan 2005, p. 27)