pedestal

English borrowed pedestal from Middle French piédestal, which itself came from Italian piedistallo, literally "foot stand." The spelling was later reshaped by the Latin word for foot, pēs/pedem.

The facts given don't trace a shift in meaning — only the path of borrowing from Italian into French into English, with Latin nudging the spelling along the way.

The Latin root pēs, pedem ("foot") that shaped this word's spelling is the same root behind other foot-related English words, though none are named in the facts at hand.