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词汇 dactyl
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Definition of dactyl in English:

dactyl

noun ˈdaktɪlˈdæktl
Prosody
  • A metrical foot consisting of one stressed syllable followed by two unstressed syllables or (in Greek and Latin) one long syllable followed by two short syllables.

    〔诗韵〕扬抑抑格,长短短格

    Example sentencesExamples
    • My name is absurd too: Malachi Mulligan, two dactyls.
    • Southey agrees, however, that the foot before the final trochee should always be a dactyl.
    • His rhythmic faculties drive anthology-pieces like ‘The Dance’, whose dactyls skip happily over its line breaks.
    • Thus a pattern consisting of five iambs would be an iambic pentameter; a pattern consisting of six dactyls would be a dactylic hexameter; and so on.
    • His formula for modern heroic verse, proclaimed up front in the essay, was, in short: more dactyls than trochees, and more trochees than spondees.

Origin

Late Middle English: via Latin from Greek daktulos, literally 'finger' (the three bones of the finger corresponding to the three syllables).

Rhymes

pterodactyl

Definition of dactyl in US English:

dactyl

nounˈdaktlˈdæktl
Prosody
  • A metrical foot consisting of one stressed syllable followed by two unstressed syllables or (in Greek and Latin) one long syllable followed by two short syllables.

    〔诗韵〕扬抑抑格,长短短格

    Example sentencesExamples
    • My name is absurd too: Malachi Mulligan, two dactyls.
    • His rhythmic faculties drive anthology-pieces like ‘The Dance’, whose dactyls skip happily over its line breaks.
    • His formula for modern heroic verse, proclaimed up front in the essay, was, in short: more dactyls than trochees, and more trochees than spondees.
    • Thus a pattern consisting of five iambs would be an iambic pentameter; a pattern consisting of six dactyls would be a dactylic hexameter; and so on.
    • Southey agrees, however, that the foot before the final trochee should always be a dactyl.

Origin

Late Middle English: via Latin from Greek daktulos, literally ‘finger’ (the three bones of the finger corresponding to the three syllables).

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