DACTYL


Meaning of DACTYL in English

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

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