Letter P

Pollex

The thumb.

Pollex is derived from the Latin pollere, to be strong, because in a contest of strength the thumb wins over the other fingers.

Plural: pollices.

The Romans used pollex for both the thumb and the big toe.

In anatomy, the thumb is the pollex while the big toe is called the hallux.

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