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dactyl Definition


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dactyl

    1. A metrical foot consisting of one long or stressed syllable followed by two short or unstressed ones.
Derivative: dactylic
adj
    Derivative: dactylically
    adverb
      Etymology: 14c: from Greek daktylos finger, from the similarity between the lengths of the syllables in a dactyl and the lengths of the bones in a finger (one long and two short).



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