digitalis
English
editEtymology
editModern Latin, from Latin digitālis (“of the fingers”) (named in reference to the German common name for the plant, Fingerhut (“thimble”)). Doublet of digital.
Pronunciation
editNoun
editdigitalis (countable and uncountable, plural digitalises)
- Any plant of the genus Digitalis (herbaceous plants of the Plantaginaceae family, including the foxglove, Digitalis purpurea).
- 1834, James Moore, “Gardens of the Misses Garnier”, in 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 […]
- (medicine) A medical extract of Digitalis purpurea prescribed for heart failure etc.
- 1940, Raymond Chandler, Farewell, My Lovely, Penguin, published 2010, page 188:
- ‘You very nearly died. I had to give you digitalis three times.’
- 2001, Leslie Iversen, Drugs: A Very Short Introduction, Oxford, page 25:
- The ancient remedy digitalis, extracted from the foxglove plant, for example, acts by blocking sodium channels in heart muscle, preventing potentially dangerous overactivity.
Related terms
editTranslations
editgenus
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References
edit- “digitalis”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.
Finnish
editEtymology
editLearned borrowing from Latin digitālis.
Pronunciation
editNoun
editdigitalis
- digitalis (medical extract)
Declension
editInflection of digitalis (Kotus type 39/vastaus, no gradation) | |||
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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 | — | |
abessive | digitaliksetta | — | |
instructive | — | — | |
comitative | See the possessive forms below. |
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Further reading
edit- “digitalis”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish][1] (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 2023-07-02
Latin
editEtymology
editdigitus (“finger, toe”) + -ālis.
Pronunciation
edit- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /di.ɡiˈtaː.lis/, [d̪ɪɡɪˈt̪äːlʲɪs̠]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /di.d͡ʒiˈta.lis/, [d̪id͡ʒiˈt̪äːlis]
Adjective
editdigitālis (neuter digitāle); third-declension two-termination adjective
- Of or belonging to the finger
Declension
editThird-declension two-termination adjective.
Number | Singular | Plural | |||
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Case / Gender | Masc./Fem. | Neuter | Masc./Fem. | Neuter | |
Nominative | digitālis | digitāle | digitālēs | digitālia | |
Genitive | digitālis | digitālium | |||
Dative | digitālī | digitālibus | |||
Accusative | digitālem | digitāle | digitālēs digitālīs |
digitālia | |
Ablative | digitālī | digitālibus | |||
Vocative | digitālis | digitāle | digitālēs | digitālia |
Related terms
editDescendants
edit- Balkan Romance:
- Dalmatian:
- Italo-Romance:
- North Italian:
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- Occitano-Romance:
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- Insular Romance:
- Borrowings:
References
edit- “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 with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
- digitalis in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
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