This lowly chess piece takes its name from the Latin for "foot soldier"
Phrase pattern after "take as a model" is from 1878. patty (n.) .... lowly chess 
piece, late 14c., from Anglo-French poun, Old French peon, earlier pehon, from... [DOC] [TLE] pawn - Online Etymology Dictionary [PAR] lowly chess piece, late 14c., from Anglo-French poun, Old French peon, earlier 
pehon, from Medieval Latin pedonem "foot soldier," from Late Latin pedonem... [DOC] [TLE] Latin Phrase Translation - Words in Latin [PAR] accipio: to consider oneself indebted, receive, learn, take.