δάκτῠλος (daktulos)

Where it lives

De Insomniis 2 · 8.38/10k
Leviticus 13 · 6.95/10k
Canticum 1 · 5.14/10k
Machabaeorum IV 3 · 3.89/10k
Daniel (LXX) 3 · 2.86/10k
Fragments 1 · 2.51/10k
Ion 1 · 2.49/10k
Orestes 2 · 2.04/10k
John 3 · 1.96/10k
Proverbia 2 · 1.8/10k
Luke 3 · 1.56/10k
Sapientia Salomonis 1 · 1.45/10k

Densest 12 of 38 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant — LSJ

finger, the fingers, the thumb

finger, ἐπὶ δακτύλων συμβάλλεσθαι τοὺς μῆνας to reckon on the fingers, Hdt. 6.63; ὁ μέγας δ. the thumb, Id. 3.8, Diog.Apoll. 6; ὁ μέσος Arist. PA 687b18; οἱ λιχανοί Hp. Art. 37; ὁ ἔσχατος Id. PA 687b17: prov., ἄκρῳ δ. γεύεσθαι Procop.Gaz. Ep. 31; οὐκ ἄξια ψόφου δακτύλων Clearch. 5.

2 the toes, toe

οἱ δ. τῶν ποδῶν the toes, X. An. 4.5.12; and, without ποδός, Batr. 45, Ar. Eq. 874, Arist. HA 494a12; τὸ τῶν δ. μέγεθος ἐναντίως ἔχει ἐπί τε τῶν ποδῶν καὶ τῶν χειρῶν Id. PA 690a30; ὁ μέσος δ. of a monkey, Id. HA 502b3; ὁ μείζων δ. the great toe, Plu. Pyrrh. 3.

b the toes

of the toes of beasts, Arist. HA 498a34; of birds, Id. PA 695a22.

II fingerʼs breadth, digit

a measure of length, fingerʼs breadth, = about 7/10 of an inch, Hdt. 1.60, al.; πώνωμεν, δάκτυλος ἀμέρα Alc. 41; δάκτυλος ἀώς AP 12.50 (Asclep.): Astron., digit, i.e. twelfth part of the sunʼs or moonʼs apparent diameter, Cleom. 2.3.

III dactyl, diiambus

metrical foot, dactyl, -⏑⏑, Pl. R. 400b; ῥυθμὸς κατὰ δάκτυλον Ar. Nu. 651; δ. κατʼ ἴαμβον, diiambus, Aristid. Quint. 1.17.

2 dance

δάκτυλοι, οἱ, a dance, Ath. 14.629d.

IV date

date, fruit of the φοῖνιξ, Arist. Mete. 342a10, Artem. 5.89.

2 grape

kind of grape, Plin. HN 14.15, Colum. 3.2.1.

3

= ἄγρωστις, Plin. HN 24.182.

V wizards, craftsmen

Δάκτυλοι Ἰδαῖοι mythical wizards and craftsmen in Crete (or Phrygia, D.S. 17.7), attached to the cult of Rhea Cybele, Hes. Fr. 176, Pherecyd. 47 J., S. Fr. 364, Str. 8.3.30, D.S. 5.64, IG 12(9).259.22 (Eretria).

2

δ. Ἰδαῖοι, = γλυκυσίδη, Dsc. 3.140.

b

fossil found in Crete, Plin. HN 37.170.

VI hand

δ. θεοῦ the hand of God, LXX Ex. 8.19, cf. Ev.Luc. 11.20. (Orig. Δάτκυλος, cf. Boeot. δακκύλιος Schwyzer 462B 51; δατ- = dṇt, cf. Skt. a-datkas ‘toothless’.)

In the wild

δακτύλωι · daktylōi Aristotle, Analytica priora et posteriora AHys.Β (DIORISIS sentence 2165)
δακτύλων · daktylōn Aristotle, De Insomniis (DIORISIS sentence 49)
δάκτυλος · daktylos Aristotle, De Insomniis (DIORISIS sentence 67)
δάκτυλον · daktylon Aristotle, Metaphysics book 11 (DIORISIS sentence 2987)
δάκτυλος · daktylos Aristotle, Metaphysics book 14 (DIORISIS sentence 4013)
δακτύλων · daktylōn Aristotle, Metaphysics book 4 (DIORISIS sentence 999)

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Where it came from

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