digitalis
EnglishEdit
EtymologyEdit
Modern Latin, from Latin digitālis (“of the fingers”) (named in reference to the German common name for the plant, Fingerhut (“thimble”)). Doublet of digital.
PronunciationEdit
NounEdit
digitalis (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 (1834), 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 […]
- 1834, James Moore, Gardens of the Misses Garnier in The Gardener’s Magazine, and Register of Rural & Domestic Improvement, volume 19 (1834), 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
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extract
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ReferencesEdit
- “digitalis”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–present.
FinnishEdit
NounEdit
digitalis
- digitalis (medical extract)
DeclensionEdit
Inflection 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 | — | |
instructive | — | — | |
abessive | digitaliksetta | — | |
comitative | — | — |
Possessive forms of digitalis (type vastaus) | ||
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possessor | singular | plural |
1st person | digitalikseni | digitaliksemme |
2nd person | digitaliksesi | digitaliksenne |
3rd person | digitaliksensa |
LatinEdit
EtymologyEdit
digitus (“finger, toe”) + -ālis.
PronunciationEdit
- (Classical) IPA(key): /di.ɡiˈtaː.lis/, [d̪ɪɡɪˈt̪äːlʲɪs̠]
- (Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /di.d͡ʒiˈta.lis/, [d̪id͡ʒiˈt̪äːlis]
AdjectiveEdit
digitālis (neuter digitāle); third-declension two-termination adjective
- Of or belonging to the finger
DeclensionEdit
Third-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 termsEdit
DescendantsEdit
- Balkan Romance:
- Dalmatian:
- Dalmatian: ziziul
- Italo-Romance:
- Padanian:
- Northern Gallo-Romance:
- Southern Gallo-Romance:
- Ibero-Romance:
- Insular Romance:
- Borrowings:
ReferencesEdit
- “digitalis”, in Charlton T[homas] Lewis; Charles [Lancaster] Short (1879) […] A New Latin Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.; Cincinnati, Ohio; Chicago, Ill.: American Book Company; 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