dextra

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See also: Dextra

Ido

Etymology

From Esperanto dekstra, from Italian destro, Latin dexter.

Adjective

dextra

  1. right

Antonyms

Latin

Alternative forms

Pronunciation

Adjective

dextra

  1. inflection of dexter:
    1. feminine nominative/vocative singular
    2. neuter nominative/accusative/vocative plural

Adjective

dextrā

  1. feminine ablative singular of dexter

Noun

dextra f (genitive dextrae); first declension

  1. right hand
    • 29 BCE – 19 BCE, Virgil, Aeneid 1.97–98:
      “ Mēne Īliacīs occumbere campīs
      nōn potuisse tuāque animam hanc effundere dextrā .”
      “ Oh , why could I not have been to fall on the Ilian fields – and by your right hand – to pour out this life .”
      (Aeneas, facing inglorious death at sea, laments that he did not die defending Troy or Ilion, where he was nearly slain by the Greek warrior Diomedes.)

Declension

First-declension noun.

singular plural
nominative dextra dextrae
genitive dextrae dextrārum
dative dextrae dextrīs
accusative dextram dextrās
ablative dextrā dextrīs
vocative dextra dextrae

Preposition

dextrā (+ accusative)

  1. (post-Augustan) on the right side of

References

  • “dextra”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • “dextra”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • dextra 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)
  • dextra 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

Portuguese

Noun

dextra f (plural dextras)

  1. Obsolete spelling of destra.

Adjective

dextra

  1. Obsolete spelling of destra.

Romanian

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from Latin dextra.

Noun

dextra f (uncountable)

  1. (heraldry) dexter

Declension

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References

  • dextra in Academia Română, Micul dicționar academic, ediția a II-a, Bucharest: Univers Enciclopedic, 2010. →ISBN
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