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Look up dactyl in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Dactyl may refer to: Dactyl (mythology), a legendary being Dactyl (poetry), a metrical unit of verse
Dactyl
Poetic meter consisting of six feet
Dactylic hexameter is a form of meter commonly used in both Ancient Greek and Latin poetry. The best known use is for epic poems, such as Homer's Iliad
Dactylic_hexameter
Metrical foot
A dactyl (/ˈdæktɪl/; from Greek δάκτυλος 'finger') is a foot in poetic meter. In quantitative verse, often used in Greek or Latin, a dactyl is a long
Dactyl_(poetry)
Greek mythological beings
In Greek mythology, the Dactyls or Daktyloi (/ˈdæktɪlz/; from Ancient Greek: Δάκτυλοι Dáktuloi "fingers") were the archaic mythical race of male beings
Dactyls_(mythology)
Moon of asteroid 243 Ida
Dactyl (/ˈdæktɪl/ DAK-til), formal designation (243) Ida I, is a small asteroid moon 1,200 by 1,400 by 1,600 m (3,900 by 4,600 by 5,200 ft), in size) that
Dactyl_(moon)
Main-belt asteroid
ages. Ida's moon Dactyl was discovered by mission member Ann Harch in images returned from Galileo. It was named after the Dactyls, figures who inhabited
243_Ida
Fixed verse form
The double dactyl is a verse form invented by Anthony Hecht and Paul Pascal in 1951. Like the limerick, the double dactyl has a fixed structure, is usually
Double_dactyl
Poetic verse form
Dactylic tetrameter is a metre in poetry. It refers to a line consisting of four dactylic feet. "Tetrameter" simply means four poetic feet. Each foot
Dactylic_tetrameter
is a list of named geological features on asteroid 243 Ida and its moon, Dactyl. Idaean craters are named after famous caves. Idaean regiones (geologically
List of geological features on Ida and Dactyl
List_of_geological_features_on_Ida_and_Dactyl
Ukrainian photographer (born 1970)
Victoria N. (2002), Yelena Yemchuk, Dactyl Foundation Alexander, Victoria N. (2004), Yelena Yemchuk, Dream Readers, Dactyl Foundation Alexander, Victoria N
Yelena_Yemchuk
Topics referred to by the same term
tetrameter Dactylic pentameter Dactylic hexameter Double dactyl This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title Dactylic metre. If an
Dactylic_metre
American nonprofit arts organization
Dactyl Foundation is a 501 (c)(3) not-for-profit arts organization in New York City founded by New York-based artist Neil Grayson and novelist/philosopher
Dactyl_Foundation
Species of mantis shrimp
hammer-like appendage, the dactyl club. This is the most electron-dense region of the stomatopod exoskeleton. Mechanically, the dactyl club is a spring-loaded
Odontodactylus_scyllarus
Metrical foot with two long (or accented) syllables
positions. The first line of Virgil's Aeneid has the pattern dactyl-dactyl-spondee-spondee-dactyl-spondee: – ᴗ ᴗ | – ᴗ ᴗ | – – | – – | – ᴗ ᴗ | – – arma virumque
Spondee
Musical artist
Terry Dactyl and the Dinosaurs were an English novelty band that issued a few recordings in the early 1970s. The band was an alias adopted by Brett Marvin
Terry Dactyl and the Dinosaurs
Terry_Dactyl_and_the_Dinosaurs
Metrical line of verses consisting of six feet
two short syllables, a dactyl (— ∪∪). The first four feet can contain either one of them. The fifth is almost always a dactyl, and last must be a spondee
Hexameter
Basic rhythmic structure of a verse or lines in verse
In the dactylic hexameters of Classical Latin and Classical Greek, for example, each of the six feet making up the line was either a dactyl (long-short-short)
Metre_(poetry)
1971 single by Terry Dactyl and the Dinosaurs
"Seaside Shuffle" is a song and single by British group Terry Dactyl and the Dinosaurs written by Jona Lewie under his real name John Lewis. The song was
Seaside_Shuffle
Basic repeating rhythmic unit in a line of poetry
syllables in length. The most common feet in English are the iamb, trochee, dactyl, and anapaest. The foot might be compared to a bar, or a beat divided into
Metrical_foot
Unreleased action-platform video game
Dactyl Joust is an unreleased action-platform video game that was in development by High Voltage Software and planned to be published by Atari Corporation
Dactyl_Joust
Metrical foot
as a reversed dactyl. This word comes from the Greek ἀνάπαιστος, anápaistos, literally "struck back" and in a poetic context "a dactyl reversed". Because
Anapaest
Poetic meter of four anapestic feet per line
syllable. It is sometimes referred to as a "reverse dactyl", and shares the rapid, driving pace of the dactyl. Anapestic tetrameter is a rhythm well suited
Anapestic_tetrameter
Epic poem attributed to Homer
over the poem's ending occur today. The epic has 12,109 lines composed in dactylic hexameter, sometimes called Homeric hexameter—a metre with six metrical
Odyssey
Poetic concept
couplet consists of one line of poetry in dactylic hexameter followed by a line in dactylic pentameter. Because dactylic hexameter is used throughout epic poetry
Elegiac
Metrical foot
iamb – ◡ trochee, choree – – spondee Trisyllables ◡ ◡ ◡ tribrach – ◡ ◡ dactyl ◡ – ◡ amphibrach ◡ ◡ – anapaest, antidactylus ◡ – – bacchius – ◡ – cretic
Trochee
Country in Central Europe
Veress and Miklós Rózsa. Hungarian traditional music tends to have a strong dactylic rhythm, as the language is invariably stressed on the first syllable of
Hungary
1st-century-BC Roman poet
tradition, Virgil spent the ensuing years (perhaps 37–29 BC) on the long dactylic hexameter poem called the Georgics (from Greek, "On Working the Earth")
Virgil
Arrangement of digits on hands and feet
Sometimes the suffix "-dactylia" is used. The derived adjectives end with "-dactyl" or "-dactylous." Pentadactyly (from Ancient Greek πέντε (pénte), meaning
Dactyly
Medical condition
inflammation of an entire digit (a finger or toe), and can be painful. The word dactyl comes from the Greek word daktylos 'finger'. As a medical term, it refers
Dactylitis
Class of Ancient Greek poetic form
choriambic nucleus ( – u u – ), which is sometimes subject to: dactylic expansion (some number of dactyls preceding the choriamb, or "prolongation" of the pattern
Aeolic_verse
Virtual reality gaming machine
was not necessary. There were four original games for the 1000CS unit: Dactyl Nightmare - A first-person multi-player shooter featuring a map on several
Virtuality_(product)
Greek and Latin poetic verse form
The dactylic pentameter is a verse-form which, in classical Greek and Latin poetry, follows a dactylic hexameter to make up an elegiac couplet. It features
Dactylic_pentameter
Microstructure of natural materials
natural structures, including the cosmoid scale of the coelacanth, and the dactyl club of the mantis shrimp and many other stomatopods. In physics, these
Bouligand_structure
Ancient Greek poet
older than other parts of the poems. The poems were composed in unrhymed dactylic hexameters; the ancient Greek metre was quantity-based rather than stress-based
Homer
Study of Latin poetic laws of metre
distich"). He also wrote dactylic hexameters in conversational and epistolary style. Virgil, his contemporary, used dactylic hexameters for both light
Latin_prosody
Epic poem attributed to Homer
Like the Odyssey, the poem is divided into 24 books and was written in dactylic hexameter. It contains 15,693 lines in its standard edition. The Iliad
Iliad
Technology made by American organization
to achieve superhuman competence in Dota 2 matches. Developed in 2018, Dactyl uses machine learning to train a Shadow Hand, a human-like robot hand, to
Products and applications of OpenAI
Products_and_applications_of_OpenAI
Metric line consisting of five iambic feet
case, each iamb is underscored with a flap step. Anapaest Blank verse Dactyl Dactylic pentameter Decasyllable Hendecasyllable Ragale Systems of scansion
Iambic_pentameter
Form of literature
Athens. Similarly, "dactylic hexameter", comprises six feet per line, of which the dominant kind of foot is the "dactyl". Dactylic hexameter was the traditional
Poetry
Series of high-fantasy novels by R. A. Salvatore
encroaching darkness is to defeat the dactyl itself. They journey to the Barbican and Mount Aida to face the dactyl, and it is defeated at the cost of Avelyn
The_DemonWars_Saga
Type of meter (poetry)
here // the spring // we see, Fresh green // upon // the tree. Anapaest Dactyl Tristich Triadic-line poetry Greene, Roland; Cushman, Stephen; Cavanagh
Trimeter
Work by Archimedes
64,000 poppy seeds in a dactyl-sphere; the length of a stadium as 10,000 dactyls; and accepting 19mm as the width of a dactyl, the diameter of Archimedes's
The_Sand_Reckoner
English singer-songwriter (born 1947)
"Seaside Shuffle", another Lewie composition, released under the name Terry Dactyl and the Dinosaurs. The record did little on first release in 1971, but in
Jona_Lewie
In Greek mythology, one of the Dactyls
means 'anvil, pestle'[citation needed]) in Greek mythology, was one of the Dactyls, associated with the anvil, or perhaps the Corybantes. He was the son of
Acmon_(Dactyl)
Astronomical body that orbits a planet
moonlets. Small asteroid moons (natural satellites of asteroids), such as Dactyl, have also been called moonlets. The upper limit is also vague. Two orbiting
Natural_satellite
bodies and objects: Moon Mimas and Ida, an asteroid with its own moon, Dactyl Comet Lovejoy and Jupiter, a giant gas planet The Sun; Sirius A with Sirius
Lists_of_astronomical_objects
Priestess of the Temple of Apollo at Delphi, Greece
her utterances as enigmatic prophecies and recomposed them into verse as dactylic hexameter, many of which are preserved in Greek literature. This idea,
Pythia
Roman poet (43 BC – AD 17/18)
Metamorphoses, a continuous mythological narrative in fifteen books written in dactylic hexameters. He is also known for works in elegiac couplets such as Ars
Ovid
British band
1968 and later, a rarely performing pub band. Under the pseudonym Terry Dactyl and the Dinosaurs they released "Seaside Shuffle", a novelty single that
Brett Marvin and the Thunderbolts
Brett_Marvin_and_the_Thunderbolts
Poetic line of four trochaic feet
metrical feet Iamb Iambic tetrameter Iambic pentameter Iambic heptameter Dactyl Dactylic hexameter Trochee/Trochaic Trochaic tetrameter Trochaic octameter Arabic
Trochaic_tetrameter
Georgian poetic form
generally shairi uses either feminine or dactylic rhyme. It is worth noticing that despite the feminine and dactylic forms of rhyme, Georgian shairi’s stress
Shairi
There are a number of objects in the Solar System that have been named after Italian people or places. Many of these are craters on the terrestrial planets
Italian names in the Solar System
Italian_names_in_the_Solar_System
Unfinished epic poem by Statius
his youth to his death at Troy. Only about one and a half books (1,127 dactylic hexameters) were completed before the poet's death. What remains is an
Achilleid
Lengthy poem dealing with supernatural forces
'word, story, poem'. In Ancient Greek, 'epic' could refer to all poetry in dactylic hexameter (epea), which included not only Homer but also the wisdom poetry
Epic_poetry
13th-century musical treatise
(short) and are given the names trochee, iamb, dactyl, anapest, spondaic and tribrach, although trochee, dactyl and spondaic were much more common. It is evident
De_Mensurabili_Musica
Any social behaviour related to fighting
fighting. The morphology of this appendage, particularly the propodus and dactyl which extend forward in such a way that resembles the striking appendage
Agonistic_behaviour
Line consisting of four iambic feet
metrical feet Iamb Iambic tetrameter Iambic pentameter Iambic heptameter Dactyl Dactylic hexameter Trochee/Trochaic Trochaic tetrameter Trochaic octameter Arabic
Iambic_tetrameter
Feature of Latin and Greek poetic metre
classical metres that require a long syllable at the end of a line, including dactylic hexameters and iambic trimeters. It can also be found in the centre of
Brevis_in_longo
American space program to study Jupiter (1989–2003)
asteroid flyby, of 951 Gaspra, and discovered the first asteroid moon, Dactyl, around 243 Ida. In 1994, Galileo observed Comet Shoemaker–Levy 9's collision
Galileo_project
Ancient Greek moral exhortations
are a collection of moral exhortations comprising 71 lines written in dactylic hexameter. They are traditionally attributed to the Pythagorean philosophers
Golden_Verses
Theory and practice of versification
pattern | – u u | – u u | – u u | – u u | – u u | – – | (the so-called dactylic hexameter, where – represents a long syllable, and u a short one.) It would
Greek_prosody
henceforth, thenceforth Koran, Oran purvey, survey In a dactylic pair, each word is a dactyl and has the first syllable stressed and the second and third
List of closed pairs of English rhyming words
List_of_closed_pairs_of_English_rhyming_words
Latin epic poem by Virgil
poet Virgil between 29 and 19 BC, the Aeneid comprises 9,896 lines in dactylic hexameter. The first six of its twelve books tell the story of Aeneas'
Aeneid
Poetic line consisting of 14 syllables
metrical feet Iamb Iambic tetrameter Iambic pentameter Iambic heptameter Dactyl Dactylic hexameter Trochee/Trochaic Trochaic tetrameter Trochaic octameter Arabic
Fourteener_(poetry)
Oldest surviving complete piece of music
Greek rhythmicians as an "iambic dactyl" (δάκτυλος κατ᾽ ἴαμβον (dáktulos kat᾽ íambon) (⏑⏔ ⁝ ⏑⏔) (using the term "dactyl" in the rhythmicians' sense of a
Seikilos_epitaph
Region in Greek mythology
in the Odyssey Rediscovering Homer Hysteron proteron Epithets in Homer Dactylic hexameter Translations English translations On Translating Homer Chapman
Scheria
Literary work
mythological history of the Boeotian city of Thebes. They were composed in dactylic hexameter verse and believed to be recorded between 750 and 500 BC. The
Theban_Cycle
History of the Trojan War told in poems
romanized: Epikòs Kýklos) was a collection of Ancient Greek epic poems, composed in dactylic hexameter and related to the story of the Trojan War, including the Cypria
Epic_Cycle
5th-century Greek epic poet
India, and his triumphant return. It was written in Homeric Greek and in dactylic hexameter, and it consists of 48 books at 21,286 lines. There is almost
Nonnus
Species of mantis shrimp
unfolded dactyls that are lined with sharp spines and are especially elongated to reach prey. Smashers on the other hand have folded dactyls that are
Lysiosquilla_maculata
Greek and Latin poetic verse form
Alcmanian verse refers to the dactylic tetrameter in Greek and Latin poetry. Ancient metricians called the dactylic tetrameter the Alcmanic because of
Alcmanian_verse
Computer keyboard designed with ergonomic considerations
(independent) split key clusters. Examples include the Kinesis Advantage 360, Dactyl Manuform, and MoErgo Glove80. With a relatively small market, many are custom-built
Ergonomic_keyboard
Danish fashion model (born 1968)
HotelArena in Amsterdam, 2007. Her exhibition "Far From, Close" appeared at Dactyl Foundation in 2008–09, to benefit International Center of Photography educational
Helena_Christensen
Poetic meter of four metrical feet
Trochaic tetrameter: "Peter, Peter, pumpkin-eater" (English nursery rhyme) Dactylic tetrameter: Picture your self in a boat on a river with [...] (The Beatles
Tetrameter
Greek epic poem by Nonnus
Greco-Roman antiquity at 21,286 lines, composed in Homeric dialect and dactylic hexameters, the main subject of which is the life of Dionysus, his expedition
Dionysiaca
Poetry meters
Homer and the later didactic poems of Hesiod, which were composed in the dactylic hexameter. A variety of other metres were used for lyric poetry and for
Greek_and_Latin_metre
Body of literary work by Ancient Greek poet Sappho
editions. For book 1, Sapphic stanzas; for book 2, glyconics with double dactylic expansion in distichs; for book 3, glyconics with double choriambic expansion
Poetry_of_Sappho
C. 7th century BCE epic poem
in the reverse order. The poem comprised eleven books of verse in epic dactylic hexameters. The Cypria, in the written form in which it was known in classical
Cypria
Machine-learned bot project using the video game Dota 2
from OpenAI Five for Dactyl, a human-like robot hand with a neural network built to manipulate physical objects. In 2019, Dactyl solved the Rubik's Cube
OpenAI_Five
Official motto of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts
Ense petit placidam sub libertate quietem is a Latin dactylic hexameter and the official motto of the U.S. Commonwealth of Massachusetts and the University
Ense petit placidam sub libertate quietem
Ense_petit_placidam_sub_libertate_quietem
1924 single by Ma Rainey
track include; Jimmy Yancey, Donald Harrison, Brett Marvin, Dr. John, Terry Dactyl and the Dinosaurs, Miraculous Mule (on Two Tonne Testimony (2017)), Sister
Shave_'Em_Dry
Metrical foot
iamb – ◡ trochee, choree – – spondee Trisyllables ◡ ◡ ◡ tribrach – ◡ ◡ dactyl ◡ – ◡ amphibrach ◡ ◡ – anapaest, antidactylus ◡ – – bacchius – ◡ – cretic
Amphibrach
Lost Ancient Greek epic
century BC) (see Cyclic Poets). The poem comprised five books of verse in dactylic hexameter. Both the date of composition of the Nostoi and the date that
Nostoi
Lost Greek epic
century BC (see Cyclic poets). The poem comprised five books of verse in dactylic hexameter. Very few fragments of the Aethiopis survive today; Proclus's
Aethiopis
metrical feet. Dactylic meter: any meter based on the dactyl as its primary rhythmic unit. Dactylic tetrameter Dactylic pentameter Dactylic hexameter Golden
Glossary_of_poetry_terms
American activist and author (born 1973)
Terry Dactyl, will be published by Coffee House Press on November 11, 2025. It will be simultaneously released in the UK by Cipher Press. Terry Dactyl received
Mattilda_Bernstein_Sycamore
Historical quatrain
however, the lines correspond roughly to a monosyllabic tetrameter, a dactylic tetrameter, a trochaic tetrameter, and an iambic tetrameter respectively
Fee-fi-fo-fum
Metrical foot
its various inflections) cannot be used in works composed in dactylic hexameter or dactylic pentameter. For Romance language poetry, the cretic has been
Cretic
Metrical foot
iamb – ◡ trochee, choree – – spondee Trisyllables ◡ ◡ ◡ tribrach – ◡ ◡ dactyl ◡ – ◡ amphibrach ◡ ◡ – anapaest, antidactylus ◡ – – bacchius – ◡ – cretic
Iamb_(poetry)
System of uniquely identifying features on the surface of a planet or natural satellite
Feature type Naming convention Craters Idaean dactyls
Planetary_nomenclature
Metrical foot
iamb – ◡ trochee, choree – – spondee Trisyllables ◡ ◡ ◡ tribrach – ◡ ◡ dactyl ◡ – ◡ amphibrach ◡ ◡ – anapaest, antidactylus ◡ – – bacchius – ◡ – cretic
Tribrach_(poetry)
Supposed universal remedy
Teumessian fox Tribes Achaeans Amazons Anthropophagi Bebryces Cicones Curetes Dactyls Gargareans Halizones Korybantes Laestrygonians Lapiths Lotus-eaters Myrmidons
Panacea_(medicine)
Region on asteroid 243 Ida
that Ida is a rubble pile asteroid. List of geological features on Ida and Dactyl "Pola Regio". Gazetteer of Planetary Nomenclature. USGS Astrogeology Research
Pola_Regio
Form of the Greek language found in Homer
Greek because it was used as the language of epic poetry, typically in dactylic hexameter, by poets such as Hesiod and Theognis of Megara. Some compositions
Homeric_Greek
Architeuthis tentacular club (carpus, manus and dactylus suckers, and dactylic pouch) Female (mature) ML: 1.6 m; additional measurements of Architeuthis
List of giant squid specimens and sightings (2001–2014)
List_of_giant_squid_specimens_and_sightings_(2001–2014)
Television series
amusement park. Each of the groups' members save for Teryx and Terrible Dactyl–who can themselves fly–have flying ships in which they can travel and do
Dinosaucers
be either an anceps, a short, or two shorts. Some metres, such as the dactylic and anapaestic metres, have no anceps syllables, although they make liberal
Anceps
Greek and Latin poetic verse form
Greek and Latin metre Greek prosody Latin prosody Dactylic hexameter Elegiac couplet Alcmanian verse Archilochian Latin rhythmic hexameter Iambic trimeter
Asclepiad_(poetry)
2017 translation by Emily Wilson
the original Homeric Greek's line count and reflected its traditional dactylic hexameter by employing the traditional English iambic pentameter meter
Odyssey (Emily Wilson translation)
Odyssey_(Emily_Wilson_translation)
Name list
Apollodorus, Library, 3.11 Georg Autenrieth, A Homeric Dictionary, Idaeus1 Dactyl Heracles Perseus Encyclopedia, Idaeus Pausanias, Description of Greece,
Idaeus
DACTYL
DACTYL
DACTYL
DACTYL
Surname or Lastname
English
English : variant spelling of Milham.
Boy/Male
Indian, Malay, Nigerian, Tamil
Young
Boy/Male
Indian
Servant of God (Allah)
Girl/Female
Spanish
Manly.
Boy/Male
Hindu, Indian
Lord Muruga
Boy/Male
German
Mighty or intelligent.
Boy/Male
Bengali, Gujarati, Hindu, Indian, Kannada, Malayalam, Marathi, Telugu
The Name of a Sage
Surname or Lastname
English
English : from Middle English diche, dike, Old English dīc ‘dike’, ‘earthwork’, hence a metonymic occupational name for a ditcher or a topographic name for someone who lived by a ditch or dike. The medieval dike was larger and more prominent than the modern ditch, and was usually constructed for purposes of defense rather than drainage.Americanized spelling of Dutch Dijk (see Dyck).
Male
Dutch
, famous wolf.
Boy/Male
Indian
Satisfied
DACTYL
DACTYL
DACTYL
DACTYL
DACTYL
n.
A line consisting chiefly or wholly of dactyls; as, these lines are dactylics.
a.
Containing spondees in excess; marked by spondees; as, a spondaic hexameter, i. e., one which has a spondee instead of a dactyl in the fifth foot.
a.
Pertaining to, consisting chiefly or wholly of, dactyls; as, dactylic verses.
n.
A kind of zooid of Siphonophora which has an elongated or even vermiform body, with one tentacle, but no mouth. See Siphonophora.
a.
Belonging to, or in the manner of, Sappho; -- said of a certain kind of verse reputed to have been invented by Sappho, consisting of five feet, of which the first, fourth, and fifth are trochees, the second is a spondee, and the third a dactyl.
n.
A genus of bright-colored Siphonophora found floating in the warmer parts of the ocean. The individuals are round and disk-shaped, with a large zooid in the center of the under side, surrounded by smaller nutritive and reproductive zooids, and by slender dactylozooids near the margin. The disk contains a central float, or pneumatocyst.
n.
A verse of six feet, the first four of which may be either dactyls or spondees, the fifth must regularly be a dactyl, and the sixth always a spondee. In this species of verse are composed the Iliad of Homer and the Aeneid of Virgil. In English hexameters accent takes the place of quantity.
n.
Dactyliomancy.
n.
Rhythmical arrangement of syllables or words into verses, stanzas, strophes, etc.; poetical measure, depending on number, quantity, and accent of syllables; rhythm; measure; verse; also, any specific rhythmical arrangements; as, the Horatian meters; a dactylic meter.
n.
A writer of dactylic verse.
n.
A dactyl.
a.
Employing two hands; as, the two-hand alphabet. See Dactylology.
a.
Having six metrical feet, especially dactyls and spondees.
a.
Pertaining to dactyl; dactylic.
a.
Composed of dactyls and trochees so arranged as to produce a movement like that of ordinary speech.
n.
The scaly covering of the toes, as in birds.
n.
Dactylic meters.
a.
Employing one hand; as, the one-hand alphabet. See Dactylology.