dactyl

1 a metrical unit with stressed-unstressed-unstressed syllables

2 a finger or toe in human beings or corresponding part in other vertebrates [syn: digit]

English

Noun

1. A poetical foot of three sylables (-- ~ ~), one long followed by two short, or one accented followed by two unaccented.

Translations

• French: dactyle
• Spanish: esdrújulo

See also

• anapest
• spondee

Dactyl may mean:

• Dactyl, a creature in Greek mythology.
• Pterodactyl, a flying reptile from the Triassic to Cretaceous Period
• Dactyl, a metrical foot consisting of one long syllable and two short as in "Catherine." (Derived from the Greek word for finger, as a finger has one long segment and two shorter ones.)
• Dactyl, the small natural satellite orbiting the asteroid Ida.
• Finger, in medical terminology, from the Greek δάκτυλος.

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