dactyl

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• General-American, Received-Pronunciation: /ˈdæktɪl/
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• CMU ARPABET: D AE1 K T IH0 L Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
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Learned borrowing from Latin dactylus, from Ancient Greek δάκτυλος (dáktulos, “finger”), three bones of the finger corresponding to three syllables. Doublet of dactylus and date.

22 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Armenian: ստեղն (steġn) — poetical foot of three syllables
• Catalan: dàctil — poetical foot of three syllables
• Danish: daktyl — poetical foot of three syllables
• Dutch: dactylus — poetical foot of three syllables
• Esperanto: daktilo — poetical foot of three syllables
• Faroese: rættur tríliður — poetical foot of three syllables
• Finnish: daktyyli — poetical foot of three syllables
• French: dactyle — poetical foot of three syllables
• German: Daktylus — poetical foot of three syllables
• Greek: δάκτυλος (dáktylos) — poetical foot of three syllables
• Ancient Greek: δάκτυλος (dáktulos) — poetical foot of three syllables
• Irish: dachtal — poetical foot of three syllables
• Italian: dattilo — poetical foot of three syllables
• Japanese: ダクティル (dakutiru) — poetical foot of three syllables
• Latin: dactylus — poetical foot of three syllables
• Occitan: dactil — poetical foot of three syllables
• Polish: daktyl — poetical foot of three syllables
• Portuguese: dátilo — poetical foot of three syllables
• Russian: да́ктиль (dáktilʹ) — poetical foot of three syllables
• Spanish: dáctilo — poetical foot of three syllables
• Swedish: daktyl — poetical foot of three syllables
• Ukrainian: да́ктиль (dáktylʹ) — poetical foot of three syllables