英语词汇“dactyl”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

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This week: Write a poem of no longer than eight lines (plus an optional title) about someone who died in 2021, as in the double dactyl above by Lover of Baseball, Double Dactyls and Bad Language Gene Weingarten.

Washington Post, 30 Dec. 2021 This was the tack taken by Gene Weingarten in today’s example, a double dactyl about the famously profane Tommy Lasorda.

Washington Post, 30 Dec. 2021

Word History

Etymology

Noun

Middle English dactyl, dactile "fruit of the date palm, a dactyl in verse," borrowed from Latin dactylus "dactyl in verse, kind of date," borrowed from Greek dáktylos "digit (finger or toe), finger's width as a measurement, dactyl in verse, date," of uncertain origin

Note: The metrical foot is so called because the first of the three syllables is the longest, as in the joints of a finger. The sense "date" of the Greek word may depend on a Semitic source (compare Aramaic diqlā "date palm," from which Maghribi Arabic daqal "kind of date," post-biblical Hebrew deqel "palm tree" may have been borrowed), accommodated to dáktylos "digit" by folk etymology. P. Chantraine (Dictionnaire étymologique de la langue grecque) alludes to a proposed connection between dáktylos and the Germanic verb represented by Old Norse taka "to seize, grasp," Gothic tekan "to touch," though the etymology of this verb and its possible Indo-European congeners is problematic (see take entry 1). The Boeotian variant dakkýlios of daktýlios "finger ring" implies an original form *datkylos, which, with the *-tk- cluster and *-yl- suffix, would make it of pre-Greek substratal origin according to R. Beekes (Etymological Dictionary of Greek, Brill, 2009). Compare digit, toe entry 1.

Combining form

Greek daktyl-, daktylo-, from daktylos

First Known Use

Noun

14th century, in the meaning defined above

单词	dactyl
释义	dactyl 1 of 2 noun dac·tyl ˈdak-tᵊl -ˌtil : a metrical foot consisting of one long and two short syllables or of one stressed and two unstressed syllables (as in tenderly) dactylic dak-ˈti-lik adjective or noun dactyl- 2 of 2 combining form variants or dactylo- : finger : toe : digit dactylology Example Sentences Recent Examples on the Web Noun This week: Write a poem of no longer than eight lines (plus an optional title) about someone who died in 2021, as in the double dactyl above by Lover of Baseball, Double Dactyls and Bad Language Gene Weingarten. Washington Post, 30 Dec. 2021 This was the tack taken by Gene Weingarten in today’s example, a double dactyl about the famously profane Tommy Lasorda. Washington Post, 30 Dec. 2021 Word History Etymology Noun Middle English dactyl, dactile "fruit of the date palm, a dactyl in verse," borrowed from Latin dactylus "dactyl in verse, kind of date," borrowed from Greek dáktylos "digit (finger or toe), finger's width as a measurement, dactyl in verse, date," of uncertain origin Note: The metrical foot is so called because the first of the three syllables is the longest, as in the joints of a finger. The sense "date" of the Greek word may depend on a Semitic source (compare Aramaic diqlā "date palm," from which Maghribi Arabic daqal "kind of date," post-biblical Hebrew deqel "palm tree" may have been borrowed), accommodated to dáktylos "digit" by folk etymology. P. Chantraine (Dictionnaire étymologique de la langue grecque) alludes to a proposed connection between dáktylos and the Germanic verb represented by Old Norse taka "to seize, grasp," Gothic tekan "to touch," though the etymology of this verb and its possible Indo-European congeners is problematic (see take entry 1). The Boeotian variant dakkýlios of daktýlios "finger ring" implies an original form datkylos, which, with the -tk- cluster and -yl- suffix, would make it of pre-Greek substratal origin according to R. Beekes (Etymological Dictionary of Greek,* Brill, 2009). Compare digit, toe entry 1. Combining form Greek daktyl-, daktylo-, from daktylos First Known Use Noun 14th century, in the meaning defined above Medical Definition dactyl noun dac·tyl ˈdak-tᵊl : a finger or toe
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dactyl

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