dactylus
English
editNoun
editdactylus (plural dactyli)
- Synonym of dactyl (“type of metrical foot”)
Dutch
editAlternative forms
edit- daktylus (superseded)
Etymology
editBorrowed from Latin dactylus, from Ancient Greek δάκτυλος (dáktulos).
Pronunciation
editNoun
editdactylus m (plural dactyli or dactylen)
Derived terms
editLatin
editEtymology
editBorrowed from Ancient Greek δάκτυλος (dáktulos, “a finger, a dactyl”).
Pronunciation
edit- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /ˈdak.ty.lus/, [ˈd̪äkt̪ʏɫ̪ʊs̠]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈdak.ti.lus/, [ˈd̪äkt̪ilus]
Noun
editdactylus m (genitive dactylī); second declension
- a sort of muscle
- a kind of grape
- a sort of grass
- a precious stone
- the date
- (poetry) a dactyl (¯ ˘ ˘), one long followed by two short, or one accented followed by two unaccented; this came to be in an allusion to the three joints of the finger
Declension
editSecond-declension noun.
Case | Singular | Plural |
---|---|---|
Nominative | dactylus | dactylī |
Genitive | dactylī | dactylōrum |
Dative | dactylō | dactylīs |
Accusative | dactylum | dactylōs |
Ablative | dactylō | dactylīs |
Vocative | dactyle | dactylī |
Synonyms
edit- (kind of grape): dactylis
Descendants
editDescendants
- → Basque: datil
- Catalan: dàtil
- → Czech: datle
- → Danish: daddel
- → Dutch: dadel
- → English: date, dactyl
- → Finnish: taateli, daktyyli
- French: datte, → dactyle
- → German: Dattel
- → Hungarian: datolya
- → Icelandic: daðla
- → Irish: dáta
- Italian: dattero, dattilo
- → Latvian: datele
- → Norwegian: daddel
- → Polish: daktyl
- Romansch: datla
- → Scottish Gaelic: deit
- → Slovene: datelj
- Spanish: dátil, → dáctilo
- → Swedish: dadel
- → Translingual: Dactylis
Adjective
editdactylus (feminine dactyla, neuter dactylum); first/second-declension adjective
Declension
editFirst/second-declension adjective.
Number | Singular | Plural | |||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Case / Gender | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | |
Nominative | dactylus | dactyla | dactylum | dactylī | dactylae | dactyla | |
Genitive | dactylī | dactylae | dactylī | dactylōrum | dactylārum | dactylōrum | |
Dative | dactylō | dactylō | dactylīs | ||||
Accusative | dactylum | dactylam | dactylum | dactylōs | dactylās | dactyla | |
Ablative | dactylō | dactylā | dactylō | dactylīs | |||
Vocative | dactyle | dactyla | dactylum | dactylī | dactylae | dactyla |
Descendants
edit- Translingual: Grapholita dactyla, Lepanthes dactyla, Porroglossum dactylum
References
edit- “dactylus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “dactylus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- dactylus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- “dactylus”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
- “dactylus”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin
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