-dactylとは 意味・読み方・使い方

接尾辞

-dactyl

1. (chiefly zoology) digits

派生語

See also dactyly.

別の表記

• dactyle, dactile

語源

Learned borrowing from Latin dactylus, from Ancient Greek δάκτυλος (dáktulos, “finger”), from the three bones of the finger corresponding to three syllables. Doublet of dactylus, date, and (possibly) digit.

発音

• (Received Pronunciation, General American) IPA: /ˈdæktɪl/
• ハイフネーション: dact‧yl

名詞

dactyl (plural dactyls)

1. (prosody) A metrical foot of three syllables of the shape | – ⏖ |:

   Coordinate terms: anapest, spondee

   • 1822 October 15, Quevedo Redivivus [pseudonym; Lord Byron], “The Vision of Judgment”, in The Liberal. Verse and Prose from the South, 2nd edition, volume I, number I, London: […] John Hunt, […], published 1823, →OCLC, stanzas XC–XCI, page 33:

     Now the Bard, glad to get an audience, […] / stuck fast with his first hexameter, / Not one of all whose gouty feet would stir. // But ere the spavin'd dactyls could be spurr'd / Into recitative, in great dismay / Both cherubim and seraphim were heard / To murmur loudly through their long array; […]

   • 1922 February, James Joyce, “[Episode 1: Telemachus]”, in Ulysses, Paris: Shakespeare and Company, […], →OCLC, part I [Telemachia], page 4:

     —My name is absurd too: Malachi Mulligan, two dactyls. But it has a Hellenic ring, hasn't it?

   1. In qualitative metre, a foot with a stressed first syllable followed by two unstressed syllables.
   2. In quantitative metre, a foot with a long first syllable followed by two short syllables.
   3. (transferred sense) An excerpt of poetry or verse using this metre.

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