transcription, транскрипция: [ ˈdak-t ə l, -ˌtil ]
noun
Etymology: Middle English dactile, from Latin dactylus, from Greek daktylos, literally, finger; from the fact that the first of three syllables is the longest, like the joints of the finger
Date: 14th century
: a metrical foot consisting of one long and two short syllables or of one stressed and two unstressed syllables (as in tenderly )
• dac·tyl·ic dak-ˈti-lik adjective or noun