digitalis
English
Etymology
Modern Latin, from Latin digitālis (“of the fingers”) (named in reference to the German common name for the plant, Fingerhut (“thimble”)).
Pronunciation
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Noun
digitalis (countable and uncountable, plural digitalises)
- Any plant of the genus Digitalis (herbaceous plants of the Plantaginaceae family, including the foxglove, Digitalis purpurea).
- James Moore, Gardens of the Misses Garnier in 1834, The Gardener’s Magazine, and Register of Rural & Domestic Improvement, volume 19, page 210:
- 11. Delphiniums and digitalises.
- 1836, Joseph Harrison, The Floricultural Cabinet, and Florists’ Magazine, volume 4, page 133:
- At the Medico-Botanical Society on Tuesday, Dr. Morries, made some some observations on opium, digitales, conium, and hyoscyamus, and exhibited specimens of oils obtained from the latter plants.
- 1903, American Florist, volume 19, page 555:
- Polemoniums of various species, aubretias, dwarf phloxes, delphiniums, digitalises, gerums, erigerons and a number of other things have bloomed a second time […]
- James Moore, Gardens of the Misses Garnier in 1834, The Gardener’s Magazine, and Register of Rural & Domestic Improvement, volume 19, page 210:
- A medical extract of Digitalis purpurea prescribed for heart failure etc.
- 1940, Raymond Chandler, Farewell, My Lovely, Penguin 2010, p. 188:
- ‘You very nearly died. I had to give you digitalis three times.’
- 2001, Leslie Iversen, Drugs: A Very Short Introduction, Oxford 2001, p. 25:
- The ancient remedy digitalis, extracted from the foxglove plant, for example, acts by blocking sodium channels in heart muscle, preventing potentially dangerous overactivity.
- 1940, Raymond Chandler, Farewell, My Lovely, Penguin 2010, p. 188:
Translations
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extract
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References
- “digitalis”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.
Finnish
Noun
digitalis
- digitalis (medical extract)
Declension
Inflection of digitalis (Kotus type 39/vastaus, no gradation) | ||||
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nominative | digitalis | — | ||
genitive | digitaliksen | — | ||
partitive | digitalista | — | ||
illative | digitalikseen | — | ||
singular | plural | |||
nominative | digitalis | — | ||
accusative | nom. | digitalis | — | |
gen. | digitaliksen | |||
genitive | digitaliksen | — | ||
partitive | digitalista | — | ||
inessive | digitaliksessa | — | ||
elative | digitaliksesta | — | ||
illative | digitalikseen | — | ||
adessive | digitaliksella | — | ||
ablative | digitalikselta | — | ||
allative | digitalikselle | — | ||
essive | digitaliksena | — | ||
translative | digitalikseksi | — | ||
abessive | digitaliksetta | — | ||
instructive | — | — | ||
comitative | See the possessive forms below. |
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Latin
Etymology
digitus (“finger, toe”) + -ālis.
Pronunciation
- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /di.ɡiˈtaː.lis/, [d̪ɪɡɪˈt̪äːlʲɪs̠]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /di.d͡ʒiˈta.lis/, [d̪id͡ʒiˈt̪äːlis]
Adjective
digitālis (neuter digitāle); third-declension two-termination adjective
- Of or belonging to the finger
Declension
Third-declension two-termination adjective.
Number | Singular | Plural | |||
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Case / Gender | Masc./Fem. | Neuter | Masc./Fem. | Neuter | |
Nominative | digitālis | digitāle | digitālēs | digitālia | |
Genitive | digitālis | digitālium | |||
Dative | digitālī | digitālibus | |||
Accusative | digitālem | digitāle | digitālēs digitālīs |
digitālia | |
Ablative | digitālī | digitālibus | |||
Vocative | digitālis | digitāle | digitālēs | digitālia |
Related terms
Descendants
References
- “digitalis”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- digitalis 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)
- digitalis in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
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