Ancient Greek

Noun

δᾰ́κτῠλος • ‎(dáktulos) m ‎(genitive δᾰκτῠ́λου); second declension

1. finger
   1. toe
2. measure of length, the breadth of a finger, about 7/10 of an inch
   1. dactyl, a metrical foot
   2. (in the plural) a dance
3. date (fruit)
   1. type of grape

Declension

Derived terms

• βρᾰχῠδᾰ́κτῠλος ‎(brakhudáktulos)

Descendants

• English: dactyl, dactylo-
• French: dactyle
• Russian: да́ктиль ‎(dáktil')

References

• δάκτυλος in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• δάκτυλος in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• «δάκτυλος» in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• Bauer, Walter et al. (2001) A Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament and Other Early Christian Literature, Third edition, Chicago: University of Chicago Press
• «δάκτυλος» in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (© 2006–2016)
• “G1147”, in Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible, 1979
• Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English-Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
  • dactyl idem, page 193.
  • finger idem, page 321.
  • inch idem, page 428.
  • toe idem, page 878.
• Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010) Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill