dextans

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Latin

Etymology

Contraction of dēsēxtāns from dē- (off-) +‎ sēxtāns (sixth)

Noun

dēxtāns m (genitive dēxtantis); third declension

  1. a sixth less than the whole, thus five-sixths (especially of a foot, or of an hour)

Declension

Third-declension noun (i-stem).

singular plural
nominative dēxtāns dēxtantēs
genitive dēxtantis dēxtantium
dative dēxtantī dēxtantibus
accusative dēxtantem dēxtantēs
dēxtantīs
ablative dēxtante dēxtantibus
vocative dēxtāns dēxtantēs

References

  • “dextans”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • dextans in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
  • “dextans”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • “dextans”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin
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