dactylus

== English == === Etymology === Unadapted borrowing from Latin dactylus. Doublet of dactyl and date. === Noun === dactylus (plural dactyli) Synonym of dactyl (“type of metrical foot”). (marine biology) The tip of a cephalopod's tentacle club (carcinology) The tip of a crustacean's leg == Dutch == === Alternative forms === daktylus (superseded) === Etymology === Borrowed from Latin dactylus, from Ancient Greek δάκτυλος (dáktulos). === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /ˈdɑk.ti.lʏs/ Hyphenation: dac‧ty‧lus === Noun === dactylus m (plural dactyli or dactylen, no diminutive) (poetry) dactyl ==== Derived terms ==== dactylisch == Latin == === Etymology === Borrowed from Ancient Greek δάκτυλος (dáktulos, “a finger, a dactyl”). === Pronunciation === (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [ˈdak.ty.ɫʊs] (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [ˈdak.ti.lus] === Noun === dactylus 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 ==== Second-declension noun. ==== Synonyms ==== (kind of grape): dactylis ==== Descendants ==== === Adjective === dactylus (feminine dactyla, neuter dactylum); first/second-declension adjective (New Latin) finger-like; fingered. ==== Declension ==== First/second-declension adjective. ==== Descendants ==== → Translingual: Grapholita dactyla, Lepanthes dactyla, Porroglossum dactylum === References === “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