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Latin
Alternative forms
Etymology
From dexter.
Noun
dextera f (genitive dexterae); first declension
- right hand
- pledge, contract
- metal model of a hand, a token of agreement
Declension
First-declension noun.
Descendants
Adjective
dextera
- inflection of dexter:
- nominative/vocative feminine singular
- nominative/accusative/vocative neuter plural
Adjective
dexterā
- ablative feminine singular of dexter
References
- “dextera”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “dextera”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- dextera 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)
- dextera in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
- (ambiguous) to give one's hand to some one: manum (dextram) alicui porrigere
- (ambiguous) to give one's right hand to some one: dextram alicui porrigere, dare
- (ambiguous) to shake hands with a person: dextram iungere cum aliquo, dextras inter se iungere
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