digitalis
EnglishEdit
EtymologyEdit
Modern Latin, from Latin digitālis (“of the fingers”) (named with reference to the German common name for the plant, Fingerhut (“thimble”)).
PronunciationEdit
NounEdit
digitalis (plural digitalises)
- Any plant of the genus Digitalis (herbaceous plants of the Plantaginaceae family, including the foxglove, Digitalis purpurea).
- James Moore, Gardens of the Misses Garnier in 1834, The Gardener’s Magazine, and Register of Rural & Domestic Improvement, volume 19, page 210:
- 11. Delphiniums and digitalises.
- 1836, Joseph Harrison, The Floricultural Cabinet, and Florists’ Magazine, volume 4, page 133:
- At the Medico-Botanical Society on Tuesday, Dr. Morries, made some some observations on opium, digitales, conium, and hyoscyamus, and exhibited specimens of oils obtained from the latter plants.
- 1903, American Florist, volume 19, page 555:
- Polemoniums of various species, aubretias, dwarf phloxes, delphiniums, digitalises, gerums, erigerons and a number of other things have bloomed a second time […]
- James Moore, Gardens of the Misses Garnier in 1834, The Gardener’s Magazine, and Register of Rural & Domestic Improvement, volume 19, page 210:
- A medical extract of Digitalis purpurea prescribed for heart failure etc.
- 1940, Raymond Chandler, Farewell, My Lovely, Penguin 2010, p. 188:
- ‘You very nearly died. I had to give you digitalis three times.’
- 2001, Leslie Iversen, Drugs: A Very Short Introduction, Oxford 2001, p. 25:
- The ancient remedy digitalis, extracted from the foxglove plant, for example, acts by blocking sodium channels in heart muscle, preventing potentially dangerous overactivity.
- 1940, Raymond Chandler, Farewell, My Lovely, Penguin 2010, p. 188:
TranslationsEdit
genus
extract
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FinnishEdit
NounEdit
digitalis
- digitalis (medical extract)
DeclensionEdit
| Inflection of digitalis (Kotus type 39/vastaus, no gradation) | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| nominative | digitalis | — | |
| genitive | digitaliksen | — | |
| partitive | digitalista | — | |
| illative | digitalikseen | — | |
| singular | plural | ||
| nominative | digitalis | — | |
| accusative | nom. | digitalis | — |
| gen. | digitaliksen | ||
| genitive | digitaliksen | — | |
| partitive | digitalista | — | |
| inessive | digitaliksessa | — | |
| elative | digitaliksesta | — | |
| illative | digitalikseen | — | |
| adessive | digitaliksella | — | |
| ablative | digitalikselta | — | |
| allative | digitalikselle | — | |
| essive | digitaliksena | — | |
| translative | digitalikseksi | — | |
| instructive | — | — | |
| abessive | digitaliksetta | — | |
| comitative | — | — | |
LatinEdit
EtymologyEdit
digitus (“finger, toe”) + -ālis.
PronunciationEdit
AdjectiveEdit
digitālis (neuter digitāle); third declension
- Of or belonging to the finger
InflectionEdit
| Number | Singular | Plural | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Case / Gender | Masc./Fem. | Neuter | Masc./Fem. | Neuter | |
| nominative | digitālis | digitāle | digitālēs | digitālia | |
| genitive | digitālis | digitālium | |||
| dative | digitālī | digitālibus | |||
| accusative | digitālem | digitāle | digitālēs | digitālia | |
| ablative | digitālī | digitālibus | |||
| vocative | digitālis | digitāle | digitālēs | digitālia | |
Related termsEdit
DescendantsEdit
ReferencesEdit
- digitalis in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- digitalis in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
- digitalis in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette