"dactyl" meaning in English

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Noun

IPA: /ˈdæktɪl/ [General-American, Received-Pronunciation] Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-dactyl.wav [Southern-England] Forms: dactyls [plural], dactyle [alternative], dactile [alternative]
Etymology: Learned borrowing from Latin dactylus, from Ancient Greek δάκτυλος (dáktulos, “finger”), from the three bones of the finger corresponding to three syllables. Doublet of dactylus, date, and (possibly) digit. Etymology templates: {{dercat|en|qsb-grc|sem}}, {{lbor|en|la|dactylus}} Learned borrowing from Latin dactylus, {{der|en|grc|δάκτυλος|t=finger}} Ancient Greek δάκτυλος (dáktulos, “finger”), {{dbt|en|dactylus|date<id:fruit>|digit<q:possibly>}} Doublet of dactylus, date, and (possibly) digit Head templates: {{en-noun}} dactyl (plural dactyls)
  1. (prosody) A metrical foot of three syllables of the shape | – ⏖ |:
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  2. (prosody) A metrical foot of three syllables of the shape | – ⏖ |:
    In qualitative metre, a foot with a stressed first syllable followed by two unstressed syllables.
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  3. (prosody) A metrical foot of three syllables of the shape | – ⏖ |:
    In quantitative metre, a foot with a long first syllable followed by two short syllables.
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  4. (prosody) A metrical foot of three syllables of the shape | – ⏖ |:
    (transferred sense) An excerpt of poetry or verse using this metre.
    Sense id: en-dactyl-en-noun-uQkGo4nY Categories (other): Translingual terms with non-redundant manual script codes, Prosody, Terms with Ancient Greek translations, Terms with Portuguese translations, Poetry, Three Disambiguation of Terms with Ancient Greek translations: 13 36 37 13 Disambiguation of Terms with Portuguese translations: 11 37 41 11 Disambiguation of Poetry: 9 15 15 61 Disambiguation of Three: 21 29 29 21 Topics: human-sciences, linguistics, phonology, prosody, sciences
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Derived forms: cephalopolysyndactyly, dactylar, dactylist, double dactyl, leptodactylous, paradactylum Related terms: dactylic, polydactyl 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 class m1 (Irish), dattilo [masculine] (Italian), ダクティル (dakutiru) (Japanese), dactylus [masculine] (Latin), dactil [masculine] (Occitan), daktyl [masculine] (Polish), dátilo [masculine] (Portuguese), да́ктиль (dáktilʹ) [masculine] (Russian), dáctilo [masculine] (Spanish), daktyl [common-gender] (Swedish), да́ктиль (dáktylʹ) [masculine] (Ukrainian)
Disambiguation of 'poetical foot of three syllables': 25 25 25 25

Inflected forms

Alternative forms

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      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "lang_code": "pt",
      "sense": "poetical foot of three syllables",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "dátilo"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "lang_code": "ru",
      "roman": "dáktilʹ",
      "sense": "poetical foot of three syllables",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "да́ктиль"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "lang_code": "es",
      "sense": "poetical foot of three syllables",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "dáctilo"
    },
    {
      "code": "sv",
      "lang": "Swedish",
      "lang_code": "sv",
      "sense": "poetical foot of three syllables",
      "tags": [
        "common-gender"
      ],
      "word": "daktyl"
    },
    {
      "code": "uk",
      "lang": "Ukrainian",
      "lang_code": "uk",
      "roman": "dáktylʹ",
      "sense": "poetical foot of three syllables",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "да́ктиль"
    }
  ],
  "word": "dactyl"
}

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  "path": [
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