Latin

Noun

dactylus m ‎(genitive dactylī); second declension

1. a sort of muscle
2. a kind of grape
3. a sort of grass
4. a precious stone
5. the date
6. (in metre) a dactyl (-- ~ ~), one long followed by two short, or one accented followed by two unaccented; this came to be in an allusion to the three joints of the finger

Inflection

Second declension.

Synonyms

• (kind of grape): dactylis

Descendants

• English: dactyl
• Icelandic: Fingrarím (dactylismus ecclesiasticus)
• Italian: dattilo
• Translingual: Dactylis

Adjective

dactylus m ‎(feminine dactyla, neuter dactylum); first/second declension

1. (New Latin) finger-like; fingered.

Declension

First/second declension.

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
• Félix Gaffiot (1934), “dactylus”, in Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: 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