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English

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English Wikipedia has an article on:dactylWikipedia

Alternative forms

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• dactyle, dactile

Etymology

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Learned borrowing from Latin dactylus, from Ancient Greek δάκτυλος (dáktulos, “finger”), three bones of the finger corresponding to three syllables. Doublet of dactylus and date.

Pronunciation

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• (Received Pronunciation, General American) IPA(key): /ˈdæktɪl/

• Audio (Southern England):

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• Hyphenation: dact‧yl

Noun

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dactyl (plural dactyls)

1. A metrical foot of three syllables (— ⏑ ⏑), one long followed by two short, or one accented followed by two unaccented.
   • 1822 October 15, Quevedo Redivivus [pseudonym; Lord Byron], “The Vision of Judgment”, in The Liberal. Verse and Prose from the South, 2nd edition, volume I, number I, London: […] John Hunt, […], published 1823, →OCLC, stanzas XC–XCI, page 33:Now the Bard, glad to get an audience, […] / stuck fast with his first hexameter, / Not one of all whose gouty feet would stir. // But ere the spavin'd dactyls could be spurr'd / Into recitative, in great dismay / Both cherubim and seraphim were heard / To murmur loudly through their long array; […]
   • 1922 February, James Joyce, “[Episode 1: Telemachus]”, in Ulysses, Paris: Shakespeare and Company, […], →OCLC, part I [Telemachia], page 4:—My name is absurd too: Malachi Mulligan, two dactyls. But it has a Hellenic ring, hasn't it?

Derived terms

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• cephalopolysyndactyly
• dactylar
• dactylist
• double dactyl
• leptodactylous
• paradactylum

Related terms

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• dactylic
• polydactyl

Translations

[edit] poetical foot of three syllables

Armenian: ստեղն (hy) (steġn) Catalan: dàctil (ca) m Danish: daktyl c Dutch: dactylus (nl) m Esperanto: daktilo Faroese: rættur tríliður m Finnish: daktyyli (fi) French: dactyle (fr) m Georgian: please add this translation if you can German: Daktylus (de) m Greek: δάκτυλος (el) m (dáktylos) Ancient Greek: δάκτυλος m (dáktulos) Irish: dachtal m Italian: dattilo (it) m Japanese: ダクティル (dakutiru) Latin: dactylus m Occitan: dactil m Polish: daktyl (pl) m Portuguese: dátilo (pt) m Russian: да́ктиль (ru) m (dáktilʹ) Spanish: dáctilo m Swahili: please add this translation if you can Swedish: daktyl (sv) c Turkish: please add this translation if you can Ukrainian: да́ктиль m (dáktylʹ)

See also

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• anapest
• spondee
• finger

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