dactylus

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Noun

dactylus (plural dactyli)

  1. Synonym of dactyl (“type of metrical foot”).
  2. (marine biology) The tip of a cephalopod's tentacle club
    • 1982 April, Clyde F.E. Roper, Kenneth J. Boss, “The Giant Squid”, in Scientific American, volume 246, number 4, →JSTOR, pages 96–105:
      The distal end of the club, the dactylus (finger), is pointed and attenuated but is covered with hundreds of small suckers.
    • 2001 June, N. Neethiselvan, “A new species of cuttlefish Sepia ramani sp. nov. (Class: Cephalopoda) from Tuticorin Bay, southeast coast of India”, in Indian Journal of Marine Sciences, volume 30, number 2, pages 81–86:
      suckers of carpus and dactylus portions small
  3. (carcinology) The tip of a crustacean's leg
    • 1975 November, Takahiro Fujino, “Fine features of the dactylus of the ambulatory pereiopods in a bivalve-associated shrimp, Anschistus miersi (De Man), under the scanning electron microscope (Decapoda, Natantia, Pontoniinae)”, in Crustaceana, volume 29, number 3, →DOI, pages 252–254:
      The tip of the dactylus is short and hooked, with a scoop-shaped depression on the anterior surface.
    • 2001 April, Charles Oliver Coleman, Ines Jäger, “Acanthonotozomella rauscherti (Amphipoda, Acanthonotozomellidae), a new species from the Antarctic Ocean”, in Journal of Crustacean Biology, volume 21, number 2, →DOI, pages 475–483:
      Pereiopod 1 dactylus with 3 pointed processes on posterior margin (Fig. 2g).

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Alternative forms

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin dactylus, from Ancient Greek δάκτυλος (dáktulos).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈdɑk.ti.lʏs/
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  • Hyphenation: dac‧ty‧lus

Noun

dactylus m (plural dactyli or dactylen)

  1. (poetry) dactyl

Derived terms

Latin

Etymology

Borrowed from Ancient Greek δάκτυλος (dáktulos, “a finger, a dactyl”).

Pronunciation

Noun

dactylus m (genitive dactylī); second declension

  1. a sort of muscle
  2. a kind of grape
  3. a sort of grass
  4. a precious stone
  5. the date
  6. (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.

singular plural
nominative dactylus dactylī
genitive dactylī dactylōrum
dative dactylō dactylīs
accusative dactylum dactylōs
ablative dactylō dactylīs
vocative dactyle dactylī

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Descendants

Descendants

Adjective

dactylus (feminine dactyla, neuter dactylum); first/second-declension adjective

  1. (New Latin) finger-like; fingered.

Declension

First/second-declension adjective.

singular plural
masculine feminine neuter masculine feminine neuter
nominative dactylus dactyla dactylum dactylī dactylae dactyla
genitive dactylī dactylae dactylī dactylōrum dactylārum dactylōrum
dative dactylō dactylae dactylō dactylīs
accusative dactylum dactylam dactylum dactylōs dactylās dactyla
ablative dactylō dactylā dactylō dactylīs
vocative dactyle dactyla dactylum dactylī dactylae dactyla

Descendants

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
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