digitalis

See also: digitális and Digitalis

English

Etymology

Modern Latin, from Latin digitālis (“of the fingers”) (named in reference to the German common name for the plant, Fingerhut (“thimble”)). Doublet of digital.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /dɪdʒɪˈtɑːlɪs/
• (US) IPA^(key): /dɪdʒɪˈtælɪs/, /dɪdʒɪˈteɪlɪs/

Noun

digitalis (countable and uncountable, plural digitalises)

1. 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 […]

2. 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.

Translations

genus

• Bulgarian: напръстник m (naprǎstnik)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 毛地黃 (zh), 毛地黄 (zh) (máodìhuáng), 洋地黃 (zh), 洋地黄 (zh) (yángdìhuáng)

• Finnish: sormustinkukat (fi) pl
• Galician: estalote (gl) m
• German: Fingerhut (de) m

• Greek: δακτυλίτιδα f (daktylítida)
• Italian: digitale (it) f
• Polish: naparstnica f
• Portuguese: digital (pt) f, dedaleira (pt) f
• Russian: наперстя́нка (ru) f (naperstjánka)
• Spanish: digital (es) f, dedalera (es) f
• Swedish: fingerborgsblomma (sv) c

extract

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 洋地黃製劑, 洋地黄制剂 (yángdìhuáng zhìjì)

• Finnish: digitalis

• Portuguese: digitalina f
• Spanish: digitalina f

References

• “digitalis”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–present.

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Finnish

Noun

digitalis

1. digitalis (medical extract)

Declension

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		—	—

Possessive forms of digitalis (type vastaus)
possessor	singular	plural
1st person	digitalikseni	digitaliksemme
2nd person	digitaliksesi	digitaliksenne
3rd person	digitaliksensa

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Latin

Etymology

digitus (“finger, toe”) +‎ -ālis.

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /di.ɡiˈtaː.lis/, [d̪ɪɡɪˈt̪äːlʲɪs̠]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /di.d͡ʒiˈta.lis/, [d̪id͡ʒiˈt̪äːlis]

Adjective

digitālis (neuter digitāle); third-declension two-termination adjective

1. Of or belonging to the finger

Declension

Third-declension two-termination adjective.

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 digitālīs	digitālia
Ablative	digitālī			digitālibus
Vocative	digitālis	digitāle		digitālēs	digitālia

Related terms

• digitābulum
• digitātus

• digitulus
• digitus

Descendants

• Balkan Romance:
  • Aromanian: dzidzitar
  • Romanian: degetar
• Dalmatian:
  • Dalmatian: ziziul
• Italo-Romance:
  • Italian: ditale
  • Sicilian: jitali, jiditali, jiritali
• Padanian:
  • Friulian: dedâl
  • Piedmontese: dil, di, dial (“finger”)
• Northern Gallo-Romance:
  • Old French: deel
    • French: dé
• Southern Gallo-Romance:
  • Aragonese: didal

    Cheso: dital

  • Catalan: didal
  • Occitan: dedal

• Ibero-Romance:
  • Galician: dedal
  • Portuguese: dedal
  • Spanish: dedal
• Insular Romance:
  • Sardinian: deidale, didale
• Borrowings:
  • → Catalan: digital
  • → English: digital, digitalis
  • → Friulian: digitâl
  • → French: digital, digitale
  • → Galician: dixital
  • → German: digital
  • → Italian: digitale
  • → Portuguese: digital
  • → Romanian: digital
  • → Spanish: digital

References

• “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