See pollex on Wiktionary
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"ref": "1949 April, Harry Holbert Turney-High, “Distinguishing Characteristics of the Primates”, in General Anthropology, New York, N.Y.: Thomas Y. Crowell Company, part 1 (Basic Concepts and Data), section 2 (The Organic Man), page 28:",
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"ref": "1955, Vladimir Nabokov, Lolita, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: G[eorge] P[almer] Putnam’s Sons, published August 1958, →OCLC, part 2, page 161:",
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"ref": "1977 June 26, Chris Peck, “Purple thumbs tell of tool machines”, in Times-News, 72nd year, number 252, Twin Falls, Ida., page 5, column 1:",
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"ref": "1996 June, Hsiao-Wei Kao, Ernest S. Chang, “Homeotic Transformation of Crab Walking Leg into Claw by Autotransplantation of Claw Tissue”, in Michael J. Greenberg, editor, The Biological Bulletin, volume 190, number 3, Woods Hole, Mass.: Marine Biological Laboratory, →ISSN, page 317, column 2:",
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}
],
"text": "→ English: pollex ⇒ pollical"
},
{
"depth": 1,
"templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "eo",
"2": "polekso",
"bor": "1"
},
"expansion": "→ Esperanto: polekso",
"name": "desc"
}
],
"text": "→ Esperanto: polekso"
},
{
"depth": 1,
"templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "el",
"2": "πόλεξ",
"bor": "1"
},
"expansion": "→ Greek: πόλεξ (pólex)",
"name": "desc"
}
],
"text": "→ Greek: πόλεξ (pólex)"
},
{
"depth": 1,
"templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "pt",
"2": "pólex",
"3": "pólice",
"bor": "1"
},
"expansion": "→ Portuguese: pólex, pólice",
"name": "desc"
}
],
"text": "→ Portuguese: pólex, pólice"
},
{
"depth": 1,
"templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "ro",
"2": "police",
"bor": "1"
},
"expansion": "→ Romanian: police",
"name": "desc"
}
],
"text": "→ Romanian: police"
},
{
"depth": 1,
"templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "es",
"2": "pólice",
"bor": "1"
},
"expansion": "→ Spanish: pólice",
"name": "desc"
}
],
"text": "→ Spanish: pólice"
}
],
"etymology_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "la",
"nocap": "1"
},
"expansion": "uncertain",
"name": "uncertain"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "sla-pro",
"2": "*palьcь",
"t": "thumb"
},
"expansion": "Proto-Slavic *palьcь (“thumb”)",
"name": "cog"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "la",
"2": "polleō",
"t": "to be strong"
},
"expansion": "Latin polleō (“to be strong”)",
"name": "cog"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "la",
"2": "itc-pro",
"3": "",
"4": "*por-likʰ-s",
"t": "which is licked over"
},
"expansion": "Proto-Italic *por-likʰ-s (“which is licked over”)",
"name": "inh"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "la",
"2": "ine-pro",
"3": "*per-",
"t": "through"
},
"expansion": "Proto-Indo-European *per- (“through”)",
"name": "der"
}
],
"etymology_text": "Of uncertain origin.\nTraditionally connected to Proto-Slavic *palьcь (“thumb”), with contamination from Latin polleō (“to be strong”) (hence pollex, not *pōlex). However, de Vaan is unconvinced, and instead prefers Meier-Brügger's derivation from a Proto-Italic *por-likʰ-s (“which is licked over”), from Proto-Indo-European *per- (“through”) + *leyǵʰ- (“to lick”), with the second syllable in the nominative singular becoming -lex based on the model of other body parts, such as vortex (“whirl; top of the head”) inflecting with -ex.",
"forms": [
{
"form": "pollicis",
"tags": [
"genitive"
]
},
{
"form": "no-table-tags",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"table-tags"
]
},
{
"form": "la-ndecl",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"inflection-template"
]
},
{
"form": "pollex",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"nominative",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "pollicēs",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"nominative",
"plural"
]
},
{
"form": "pollicis",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"genitive",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "pollicum",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"genitive",
"plural"
]
},
{
"form": "pollicī",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"dative",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "pollicibus",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"dative",
"plural"
]
},
{
"form": "pollicem",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"accusative",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "pollicēs",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"accusative",
"plural"
]
},
{
"form": "pollice",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"ablative",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "pollicibus",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"ablative",
"plural"
]
},
{
"form": "pollex",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"singular",
"vocative"
]
},
{
"form": "pollicēs",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"plural",
"vocative"
]
}
],
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "pollex<3>",
"g": "m"
},
"expansion": "pollex m (genitive pollicis); third declension",
"name": "la-noun"
}
],
"inflection_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "pollex<3>"
},
"name": "la-ndecl"
}
],
"lang": "Latin",
"lang_code": "la",
"pos": "noun",
"senses": [
{
"glosses": [
"thumb"
],
"links": [
[
"thumb",
"thumb"
]
],
"tags": [
"declension-3",
"masculine"
]
},
{
"glosses": [
"big toe"
],
"links": [
[
"big toe",
"big toe"
]
],
"tags": [
"declension-3",
"masculine"
]
},
{
"glosses": [
"a unit of distance, equivalent to approximately 24.6 mm; one uncia (see also: Ancient Roman units of measurement)"
],
"links": [
[
"unit",
"unit"
],
[
"distance",
"distance"
],
[
"equivalent",
"equivalent"
],
[
"approximately",
"approximately"
],
[
"mm",
"mm"
],
[
"uncia",
"uncia#Latin"
]
],
"tags": [
"declension-3",
"masculine"
]
},
{
"glosses": [
"seal (insignia)"
],
"links": [
[
"seal",
"seal"
],
[
"insignia",
"insignia"
]
],
"tags": [
"declension-3",
"masculine"
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "/ˈpol.leks/",
"tags": [
"Classical-Latin"
]
},
{
"ipa": "[ˈpɔlːʲɛks̠]",
"tags": [
"Classical-Latin"
]
},
{
"ipa": "/ˈpol.leks/",
"note": "modern Italianate Ecclesiastical"
},
{
"ipa": "[ˈpɔlːeks]",
"note": "modern Italianate Ecclesiastical"
}
],
"wikipedia": [
"Michael_Meier-Brügger"
],
"word": "pollex"
}
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