dactylus
Latin
Etymology
Borrowed from Ancient Greek δάκτυλος (dáktulos, “a finger, a dactyl”).
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈdak.ty.lus/, [ˈdak.tʏ.ɫʊs]
Noun
dactylus m (genitive dactylī); second declension
Inflection
Second declension.
Case | Singular | Plural |
---|---|---|
Nominative | dactylus | dactylī |
Genitive | dactylī | dactylōrum |
Dative | dactylō | dactylīs |
Accusative | dactylum | dactylōs |
Ablative | dactylō | dactylīs |
Vocative | dactyle | dactylī |
Synonyms
- (kind of grape): dactylis
Descendants
Declension
First/second declension.
Number | Singular | Plural | |||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Case / Gender | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | |
Nominative | dactylus | dactyla | dactylum | dactylī | dactylae | dactyla | |
Genitive | dactylī | dactylae | dactylī | dactylōrum | dactylārum | dactylōrum | |
Dative | dactylō | dactylō | dactylīs | ||||
Accusative | dactylum | dactylam | dactylum | dactylōs | dactylās | dactyla | |
Ablative | dactylō | dactylā | dactylō | dactylīs | |||
Vocative | dactyle | dactyla | dactylum | dactylī | dactylae | dactyla |
Descendants
- Translingual: Grapholita dactyla, Lepanthes dactyla, Porroglossum dactylum
References
- dactylus in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- dactylus in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- dactylus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
- dactylus in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
- dactylus in William Smith et al., editor (1890) A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin
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