Dactyl

//ˈdæktɪl//

Synonyms for "dactyl" (80 found)

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Synonyms

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Related terms

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Translations

22 translations across 22 languages.

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Ancient Greek

1 entries
  • δάκτυλος noun (poetical foot of three syllables)

Armenian

1 entries
  • ստեղն noun (poetical foot of three syllables)

Catalan

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  • dàctil noun (poetical foot of three syllables)

Danish

1 entries
  • daktyl noun (poetical foot of three syllables)

Dutch

1 entries
  • dactylus noun (poetical foot of three syllables)

Esperanto

1 entries
  • daktilo noun (poetical foot of three syllables)

Faroese

1 entries
  • rættur tríliður noun (poetical foot of three syllables)

Finnish

1 entries
  • daktyyli noun (poetical foot of three syllables)

French

1 entries
  • dactyle noun (poetical foot of three syllables)

German

1 entries
  • Daktylus noun (poetical foot of three syllables)

Greek

1 entries
  • δάκτυλος noun (poetical foot of three syllables)

Irish

1 entries
  • dachtal noun (poetical foot of three syllables)

Italian

1 entries
  • dattilo noun (poetical foot of three syllables)

Japanese

1 entries
  • ダクティル noun (poetical foot of three syllables)

Latin

1 entries
  • dactylus noun (poetical foot of three syllables)

Occitan

1 entries
  • dactil noun (poetical foot of three syllables)

Polish

1 entries
  • daktyl noun (poetical foot of three syllables)

Portuguese

1 entries
  • dátilo noun (poetical foot of three syllables)

Russian

1 entries
  • да́ктиль noun (poetical foot of three syllables)

Spanish

1 entries
  • dáctilo noun (poetical foot of three syllables)

Swedish

1 entries
  • daktyl noun (poetical foot of three syllables)

Ukrainian

1 entries
  • да́ктиль noun (poetical foot of three syllables)

Sample sentences

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Ida was the second asteroid to be observed close-up by a spacecraft, when the Space Probe Galileo took pictures as it flew by on Aug 28, 1993. These pictures showed not only that Ida has a cratered surface, but also that it has a small moon, called Dactyl, which is about 1.6 x 1.2 km in diameter and orbiting 90 km away from the asteroid.

Source: tatoeba (6293894)

Ida's moon, Dactyl, is probably made from pieces that broke off Ida during an impact.

Source: tatoeba (6293895)

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; […]

Source: wiktionary

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

Source: wiktionary

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