- Look up
dactyl in Wiktionary, the free dictionary.
Dactyl may
refer to:
Dactyl (mythology), a
legendary being Dactyl (poetry), a
metrical unit of verse...
- A
dactyl (/ˈdæktɪl/; Gr****: δάκτυλος, dáktylos, “finger”) is a foot in
poetic meter. In
quantitative verse,
often used in Gr**** or Latin, a
dactyl is a...
- ages. Ida's moon
Dactyl was
discovered by
mission member Ann
Harch in
images returned from Galileo. It was
named after the
Dactyls,
creatures which inhabited...
-
Dactyl (/ˈdæktɪl/ DAK-til;
formally (243) Ida I
Dactyl) 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...
- In Gr**** mythology, the
Dactyls or
Daktyloi (/ˈdæktɪlz/; from
Ancient Gr****: Δάκτυλοι Dáktuloi "fingers") were the
archaic mythical race of male beings...
- 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...
-
Dactylic hexameter is a form of
meter used in
Ancient Gr**** epic and
didactic poetry: 19 as well as in and epic, didactic, and satirical, and pastoral...
- 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...
-
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...
- is a list of
named geological features on
asteroid 243 Ida and its moon,
Dactyl.
Idaean regiones (geologically
distinct areas) are
named after the discoverer...
