"dactyl" meaning in All languages combined

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Noun [English]

IPA: /ˈdæktɪɫ/ [UK] Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-dactyl.wav Forms: dactyls [plural]
Etymology: From Latin dactylus, from Ancient Greek δάκτυλος (dáktulos, “a finger”), three bones of the finger corresponding to three syllables. Etymology templates: {{der|en|la|dactylus}} Latin dactylus, {{der|en|grc|δάκτυλος||a finger}} Ancient Greek δάκτυλος (dáktulos, “a finger”) Head templates: {{en-noun}} dactyl (plural dactyls)
  1. A metrical foot of three syllables (— ⏑ ⏑), one long followed by two short, or one accented followed by two unaccented. Wikipedia link: Dactyl (poetry) Categories (topical): Poetry, Prosody, Three Synonyms: dactyle, dactile Derived forms: cephalopolysyndactyly, dactylar, dactylist, double dactyl, leptodactylous, paradactylum Related terms: dactylic, polydactyl, anapest, spondee, finger Translations (poetical foot of three syllables): δάκτυλος (dáktulos) [masculine] (Ancient Greek), ստեղն (steġn) (Armenian), dàctil [masculine] (Catalan), daktyl [common-gender] (Danish), dactylus [masculine] (Dutch), daktilo (Esperanto), rættur tríliður [masculine] (Faroese), daktyyli (Finnish), dactyle [masculine] (French), Daktylus [masculine] (German), δάκτυλος (dáktylos) [masculine] (Greek), dachtal [masculine] (Irish), dattilo [masculine] (Italian), dactylus [masculine] (Latin), dactil [masculine] (Occitan), daktyl [masculine] (Polish), dátilo [masculine] (Portuguese), да́ктиль (dáktilʹ) [masculine] (Russian), dáctilo [masculine] (Spanish), daktyl [common-gender] (Swedish)

Inflected forms

Alternative forms

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