digitalis

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See also: digitális and Digitalis

English

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Etymology

Modern Latin, from Latin digitālis (of the fingers) (named in reference to the German common name for the plant, Fingerhut (thimble)). Doublet of digital.

Pronunciation

  • (UK) IPA(key): /dɪdʒɪˈtɑːlɪs/
  • (US) IPA(key): /dɪd͡ʒɪˈtælɪs/, /dɪd͡ʒɪˈteɪlɪs/
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Noun

digitalis (countable and uncountable, plural digitalises)

  1. Any plant of the genus Digitalis (herbaceous plants of the Plantaginaceae family, including the foxglove, Digitalis purpurea).
    • 1834, James Moore, “Gardens of the Misses Garnier”, in The Gardener’s Magazine, and Register of Rural & Domestic Improvement, volume 19, page 210:
      11. Delphiniums and digitalises.
    • 1836, Joseph Harrison, The Floricultural Cabinet, and Florists’ Magazine, volume 4, page 133:
      At the Medico-Botanical Society on Tuesday, Dr. Morries, made some some observations on opium, digitales, conium, and hyoscyamus, and exhibited specimens of oils obtained from the latter plants.
    • 1903, American Florist, volume 19, page 555:
      Polemoniums of various species, aubretias, dwarf phloxes, delphiniums, digitalises, gerums, erigerons and a number of other things have bloomed a second time
  2. (medicine) A medical extract of Digitalis purpurea prescribed for heart failure etc.
    • 1940, Raymond Chandler, Farewell, My Lovely, Penguin, published 2010, page 188:
      ‘You very nearly died. I had to give you digitalis three times.’
    • 2001, Leslie Iversen, Drugs: A Very Short Introduction, Oxford, page 25:
      The ancient remedy digitalis, extracted from the foxglove plant, for example, acts by blocking sodium channels in heart muscle, preventing potentially dangerous overactivity.

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Finnish

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin digitālis.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈdiɡitɑ(ː)lis/,
  • Rhymes: -ɑlis
  • Syllabification(key): di‧gi‧ta‧lis
  • Hyphenation(key): di‧gi‧ta‧lis

Noun

digitalis

  1. digitalis (medical extract)

Declension

Inflection of digitalis (Kotus type 39/vastaus, no gradation)
nominative digitalis digitalikset
genitive digitaliksen digitalisten
digitaliksien
partitive digitalista digitaliksia
illative digitalikseen digitaliksiin
singular plural
nominative digitalis digitalikset
accusative nom. digitalis digitalikset
gen. digitaliksen
genitive digitaliksen digitalisten
digitaliksien
partitive digitalista digitaliksia
inessive digitaliksessa digitaliksissa
elative digitaliksesta digitaliksista
illative digitalikseen digitaliksiin
adessive digitaliksella digitaliksilla
ablative digitalikselta digitaliksilta
allative digitalikselle digitaliksille
essive digitaliksena digitaliksina
translative digitalikseksi digitaliksiksi
abessive digitaliksetta digitaliksitta
instructive digitaliksin
comitative See the possessive forms below.
Possessive forms of digitalis (Kotus type 39/vastaus, no gradation)

Further reading

Indonesian

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Etymology

Internationalism, borrowed from English digitalis, from Latin digitālis (of the fingers) (named in reference to the German common name for the plant, Fingerhut (thimble)).

Pronunciation

Noun

digitalis (plural digitalis-digitalis)

  1. (medicine, cardiology, pharmacology) digitalis: a medical extract of Digitalis purpurea prescribed for heart failure etc

Further reading

Latin

Etymology

digitus (finger, toe) +‎ -ālis.

Pronunciation

Adjective

digitālis (neuter digitāle); third-declension two-termination adjective

  1. Of or belonging to the finger

Declension

Third-declension two-termination adjective.

singular plural
masc./fem. neuter masc./fem. neuter
nominative digitālis digitāle digitālēs digitālia
genitive digitālis digitālium
dative digitālī digitālibus
accusative digitālem digitāle digitālēs
digitālīs
digitālia
ablative digitālī digitālibus
vocative digitālis digitāle digitālēs digitālia

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