dactylus
Latin
Etymology
Borrowed from Ancient Greek δάκτυλος (dáktulos, “a finger, a dactyl”).
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈdak.ty.lus/, [ˈdak.tʏ.ɫʊs]
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
Inflection
Second declension.
| Case | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| Nominative | dactylus | dactylī |
| Genitive | dactylī | dactylōrum |
| Dative | dactylō | dactylīs |
| Accusative | dactylum | dactylōs |
| Ablative | dactylō | dactylīs |
| Vocative | dactyle | dactylī |
Synonyms
- (kind of grape): dactylis
Descendants
Descendants
- Basque: datil
- Catalan: dàtil
- Czech: datle
- Danish: daddel
- Dutch: dadel
- English: date, dactyl
- Finnish: taateli, daktyyli
- French: datte, dactyle
- German: Dattel
- Hungarian: datolya
- Icelandic: daðla
- Irish: dáta
- Italian: dattero, dattilo
- Latvian: datele
- Norwegian: daddel
- Polish: daktyl
- Romansch: datla
- Scottish Gaelic: deit
- Slovenian: datelj
- Spanish: dátil, dáctilo
- Swedish: dadel
- Translingual: Dactylis
Adjective
dactylus (feminine dactyla, neuter dactylum); first/second declension
- (New Latin) finger-like; fingered.
Declension
First/second declension.
| Number | Singular | Plural | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Case / Gender | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | |
| Nominative | dactylus | dactyla | dactylum | dactylī | dactylae | dactyla | |
| Genitive | dactylī | dactylae | dactylī | dactylōrum | dactylārum | dactylōrum | |
| Dative | dactylō | dactylō | dactylīs | ||||
| Accusative | dactylum | dactylam | dactylum | dactylōs | dactylās | dactyla | |
| Ablative | dactylō | dactylā | dactylō | dactylīs | |||
| Vocative | dactyle | dactyla | dactylum | dactylī | dactylae | dactyla | |
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