What was a bicycle first called (and still today also any human powered wheeled vehicle), a Latin portmanteau of 'speed' and 'foot'?
Velocipede Velocipede A velocipede () is a human-powered land vehicle with one or more wheels. The most common type of velocipede today is the bicycle. The term was probably first coined by Karl von Drais in French as "vélocipède" for the French translation of his advertising leaflet for his version of the "Laufmaschine", also now called a 'dandy horse', which he had developed in 1817. It is ultimately derived from the Latin "velox", "veloc-" 'swift' + "pes", "ped-" 'foot'. The term 'velocipede' is today mainly used as a collective term for the different forerunners of the monowheel, the unicycle, the bicycle,
Human-powered land vehicle contact at all as with anything carried. Additionally, these four methods may be combined as in wheelbarrows. The most common wheeled human-powered land vehicle is the bicycle in all its forms. Other notable examples include: There are three main methods of using human power to propel a land vehicle: some kind of drivetrain that turns one or more drive wheels; pushing laterally against the ground, to the side relative to the forward motion of the vehicle, with a wheel, skate, or ski that simultaneously moves forward; by pushing against the ground directly with an appendage, such as a hand or