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See also: digitális and Digitalis

English

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Etymology

Modern Latin, from Latin digitālis (of the fingers) (named in reference to the German common name for the plant, Fingerhut (thimble)). Doublet of digital.

Pronunciation

  • (UK) IPA(key): /dɪdʒɪˈtɑːlɪs/
  • (US) IPA(key): /dɪd͡ʒɪˈtælɪs/, /dɪd͡ʒɪˈteɪlɪs/
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Noun

digitalis (countable and uncountable, plural digitalises)

  1. Any plant of the genus Digitalis (herbaceous plants of the Plantaginaceae family, including the foxglove, Digitalis purpurea).
    • 1834, James Moore, “Gardens of the Misses Garnier”, in 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 []
  2. (medicine) A medical extract of Digitalis purpurea prescribed for heart failure etc.
    • 1940, Raymond Chandler, Farewell, My Lovely, Penguin, published 2010, page 188:
      ‘You very nearly died. I had to give you digitalis three times.’
    • 2001, Leslie Iversen, Drugs: A Very Short Introduction, Oxford, page 25:
      The ancient remedy digitalis, extracted from the foxglove plant, for example, acts by blocking sodium channels in heart muscle, preventing potentially dangerous overactivity.

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Finnish

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin digitālis.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈdiɡitɑ(ː)lis/, [ˈdiɡiˌt̪ɑ̝(ː)lis̠]
  • Rhymes: -ɑlis
  • Syllabification(key): di‧gi‧ta‧lis
  • Hyphenation(key): di‧gi‧ta‧lis

Noun

digitalis

  1. digitalis (medical extract)

Declension

More information nominative, genitive ...
More information first-person singular possessor, singular ...

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Indonesian

Indonesian Wikipedia has an article on:
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Etymology

Internationalism, borrowed from English digitalis, from Latin digitālis (of the fingers) (named in reference to the German common name for the plant, Fingerhut (thimble)).

Pronunciation

Noun

digitalis (plural digitalis-digitalis)

  1. (medicine, cardiology, pharmacology) digitalis: a medical extract of Digitalis purpurea prescribed for heart failure etc

Further reading

Latin

Etymology

digitus (finger, toe) + -ālis.

Pronunciation

Adjective

digitālis (neuter digitāle); third-declension two-termination adjective

  1. Of or belonging to the finger

Declension

Third-declension two-termination adjective.

Descendants

  • Balkan Romance:
    • Aromanian: dzidzitar, dzãdzãtar, dzedzãtar, dzedzutar
    • Romanian: degetar
  • Dalmatian:
  • Italo-Romance:
    • Italian: ditale
    • Sicilian: jitali, jiditali, jiritali
  • North Italian:
  • Gallo-Romance:
  • Occitano-Romance:
  • Ibero-Romance:
  • Insular Romance:
    • Sardinian: deidale, didale
  • Borrowings:

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