dextra

Ido

Etymology

From Esperanto dekstra, from Italian destro, Latin dexter.

Adjective

dextra

1. right

Antonyms

• sinistra (“left”)

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Latin

Alternative forms

• dextera

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈdek.stra/, [ˈd̪ɛks̠t̪rä]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈdek.stra/, [ˈd̪ɛkst̪rä]

Adjective

(deprecated template usage) dextra

1. feminine nominative singular of dexter
2. feminine vocative singular of dexter
3. neuter nominative plural of dexter
4. neuter accusative plural of dexter
5. neuter vocative plural of dexter

Adjective

(deprecated template usage) dextrā

1. feminine ablative singular of dexter

Noun

dextra f (genitive dextrae); first declension

1. right hand

Declension

First-declension noun.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	dextra	dextrae
Genitive	dextrae	dextrārum
Dative	dextrae	dextrīs
Accusative	dextram	dextrās
Ablative	dextrā	dextrīs
Vocative	dextra	dextrae

Preposition

dextrā (+ accusative)

1. (post-Augustan) on the right side of

References

• “dextra”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “dextra”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• dextra in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• dextra in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
  • (ambiguous) to give one's hand to some one: manum (dextram) alicui porrigere
    
  • (ambiguous) to give one's right hand to some one: dextram alicui porrigere, dare
    
  • (ambiguous) to shake hands with a person: dextram iungere cum aliquo, dextras inter se iungere
    

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Portuguese

Noun

dextra f (plural dextras)

1. Obsolete spelling of destra.

Adjective

dextra

1. Obsolete spelling of destra.