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Digitalis
Digˊi-ta′lis
,Noun.
[NL.: cf. F.
digitale
. So named (according to Linnæus) from its finger-shaped corolla.] 1.
(Bot.)
A genus of plants of the family , including the foxglove.
Schrophulariaceae
Definition 2024
Digitalis
Digitalis
Translingual
Proper noun
Digitalis f
- A taxonomic genus within the family Plantaginaceae – foxglove and similar plants.
Hypernyms
- (genus): Plantae - kingdom; angiosperms, eudicots, core eudicots, asterids, euasterids I - clades; Lamiales - order; Plantaginaceae - family; Digitalideae - tribe
Hyponyms
- (genus): Digitalis purpurea - type species
digitalis
digitalis
English
Noun
digitalis (plural digitalises)
- Any plant of the genus Digitalis (herbaceous plants of the Plantaginaceae family, including the foxglove, Digitalis purpurea).
- James Moore, Gardens of the Misses Garnier in 1834, The Gardener’s Magazine, and Register of Rural & Domestic Improvement, volume 19, page 210:
- 11. Delphiniums and digitalises.
- 1836, Joseph Harrison, The Floricultural Cabinet, and Florists’ Magazine, volume 4, page 133:
- At the Medico-Botanical Society on Tuesday, Dr. Morries, made some some observations on opium, digitales, conium, and hyoscyamus, and exhibited specimens of oils obtained from the latter plants.
- 1903, American Florist, volume 19, page 555:
- Polemoniums of various species, aubretias, dwarf phloxes, delphiniums, digitalises, gerums, erigerons and a number of other things have bloomed a second time […]
- James Moore, Gardens of the Misses Garnier in 1834, The Gardener’s Magazine, and Register of Rural & Domestic Improvement, volume 19, page 210:
- A medical extract of Digitalis purpurea prescribed for heart failure etc.
- 1940, Raymond Chandler, Farewell, My Lovely, Penguin 2010, p. 188:
- ‘You very nearly died. I had to give you digitalis three times.’
- 2001, Leslie Iversen, Drugs: A Very Short Introduction, Oxford 2001, p. 25:
- The ancient remedy digitalis, extracted from the foxglove plant, for example, acts by blocking sodium channels in heart muscle, preventing potentially dangerous overactivity.
- 1940, Raymond Chandler, Farewell, My Lovely, Penguin 2010, p. 188:
Translations
genus
extract
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Finnish
Noun
digitalis
- digitalis (medical extract)
Declension
Inflection of digitalis (Kotus type 39/vastaus, no gradation) | |||
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nominative | digitalis | — | |
genitive | digitaliksen | — | |
partitive | digitalista | — | |
illative | digitalikseen | — | |
singular | plural | ||
nominative | digitalis | — | |
accusative | nom. | digitalis | — |
gen. | digitaliksen | ||
genitive | digitaliksen | — | |
partitive | digitalista | — | |
inessive | digitaliksessa | — | |
elative | digitaliksesta | — | |
illative | digitalikseen | — | |
adessive | digitaliksella | — | |
ablative | digitalikselta | — | |
allative | digitalikselle | — | |
essive | digitaliksena | — | |
translative | digitalikseksi | — | |
instructive | — | — | |
abessive | digitaliksetta | — | |
comitative | — | — |
Latin
Etymology
digitus (“finger, toe”) + -ālis.
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /di.ɡiˈtaː.lis/, [dɪ.ɡɪˈtaː.lɪs]
Adjective
digitālis m, f (neuter digitāle); third declension
- Of or belonging to the finger
Inflection
Third declension.
Number | Singular | Plural | |||
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Case / Gender | Masc./Fem. | Neuter | Masc./Fem. | Neuter | |
nominative | digitālis | digitāle | digitālēs | digitālia | |
genitive | digitālis | digitālium | |||
dative | digitālī | digitālibus | |||
accusative | digitālem | digitāle | digitālēs | digitālia | |
ablative | digitālī | digitālibus | |||
vocative | digitālis | digitāle | digitālēs | digitālia |
Related terms
Descendants
References
- digitalis in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- DIGITALIS in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
- Félix Gaffiot (1934), “digitalis”, in Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette.