Edson Tadeu Ortolan wrote:

>>15) Gymnopedie
>"Naked foot dance" or "Naked Dance"

In Greek, gumnos=naked.  But ped/pedia is not foot.  Foot is pous/podos,
as in Oedipus (=lamefoot), tripos, tripod.  Ped (British spelling paed-)
comes from pais/paidos, a boy or child, as in pediatric, pederast.
Pedia has the sense of childhood, then upbringing, so education, as in
encyclopedia (education in the round).  So gymnopedie is probably education
in the nude (perhaps in one of the French naturist villages).

Alan Moss