δάκτυλος
daktylos
finger
Appears 72 times across Aristotle's works.
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Dictionary (LSJ)
δάκτυλος, ὁ, poet. pl. δάκτυλα 19.3, AP 9.365 ( Imp.), also Phgn. 810a22:- Α. finger, ἐπὶ δακτύλων συμβάλλεσθαι τοὺς μῆνας to reckon on the fingers, 6.63; ὁ μέγας δ. the thumb, 3.8, 6; ὁ μέσος PA 687b18; οἱ λιχανοί Art. 37; ὁ ἔσχατος PA 687b17: prov., ἄκρῳ δ. γεύεσθαι Ep. 31; οὐκ ἄξια ψόφου δακτύλων 5. 2. οἱ δ. τῶν ποδῶν the toes, An. 4.5.12; and, without ποδός, 45, Eq. 874, HA 494a12; τὸ τῶν δ. μέγεθος ἐναντίως ἔχει ἐπί τε τῶν ποδῶν καὶ τῶν χειρῶν PA 690a30; ὁ μέσος δ. of a monkey, HA 502b3; ὁ μείζων δ. the great toe, Pyrrh. 3. b. of the toes of beasts, HA 498a34; of birds, PA 695a22. II. a measure of length, fingerʼs breadth, = about 7/10 of an inch, 1.60, al.; πώνωμεν, δάκτυλος ἀμέρα 41; δάκτυλος ἀώς AP 12.50 (): Astron., digit, i.e. twelfth part of the sunʼs or moonʼs apparent diameter, 2.3. III. metrical foot, dactyl, -⏑⏑, R. 400b; ῥυθμὸς κατὰ δάκτυλον Nu. 651; δ. κατʼ ἵαμβον, diiambus, 1.17. 2. δάκτυλοι, οἱ, a dance, 14.629d. IV. date, fruit of the φοῖνιξ, Mete. 342a10, 5.89. 2. kind of grape, HN 14.15, Colum.3.2.1. 3. = ἄγρωστις, HN 24.182. V. Δάκτυλοι Ἰδαῖοι mythical wizards and craftsmen in Crete (or Phrygia, 17.7), attached to the cult of Rhea Cybele, Fr. 176, 47 , Fr. 364, 8.3.30, 5.64, IG 12(9).259.22 (Eretria). 2. δ. Ἰδαῖοι, = γλυκυσίδη, 3.140. b. fossil found in Crete, HN 37.170. VI. δ. θεοῦ the hand of God, Ex. 8.19, cf. Ev.Luc. 11.20. (Orig. Δάτκυλος, cf. Boeot. δακκύλιος Schwyzer 462B 51; δατ- = dṇt, cf. Skt. a-datkas ‘toothless’.)
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