'dactyl' definitions:
Definition of 'dactyl'
From: WordNet
noun
A metrical unit with stressed-unstressed-unstressed syllables
noun
A finger or toe in human beings or corresponding body part in other vertebrates [syn: digit, dactyl]
Definition of 'dactyl'
From: GCIDE
- dactyl \dac"tyl\ (d[a^]k"t[i^]l), n. [L. dactylus, Gr. da`ktylos a finger, a dactyl. Cf. Digit.]
- 1. (Pros.) A poetical foot of three sylables (--- [crescent] [crescent]), one long followed by two short, or one accented followed by two unaccented; as, L. t["e]gm[i^]n[e^], E. mer[bprime]ciful; -- so called from the similarity of its arrangement to that of the joints of a finger. [Written also dactyle.] [1913 Webster]
- 2. (Zool.) (a) A finger or toe; a digit. (b) The claw or terminal joint of a leg of an insect or crustacean. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'dactyl'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- accent,
- accentuation,
- Alexandrine,
- amphibrach,
- amphimacer,
- anacrusis,
- anapest,
- antispast,
- arsis,
- bacchius,
- beat,
- cadence,
- caesura,
- catalexis,
- chloriamb,
- chloriambus,
- colon,
- counterpoint,
- cretic,
- dactylic hexameter,
- diaeresis,
- dimeter,
- dipody,
- dochmiac,
- elegiac,
- elegiac couplet,
- elegiac pentameter,
- emphasis,
- epitrite,
- feminine caesura,
- foot,
- heptameter,
- heptapody,
- heroic couplet,
- hexameter,
- hexapody,
- iamb,
- iambic,
- iambic pentameter,
- ictus,
- ionic,
- jingle,
- lilt,
- masculine caesura,
- measure,
- meter,
- metrical accent,
- metrical foot,
- metrical group,
- metrical unit,
- metron,
- molossus,
- mora,
- movement,
- numbers,
- paeon,
- pentameter,
- pentapody,
- period,
- proceleusmatic,
- pyrrhic,
- quantity,
- rhythm,
- spondee,
- sprung rhythm,
- stress,
- swing,
- syzygy,
- tetrameter,
- tetrapody,
- tetraseme,
- thesis,
- tribrach,
- trimeter,
- tripody,
- triseme,
- trochee