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English
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
Noun
digitalis (countable and uncountable, plural digitalises)
- 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 […]
- (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.
Derived terms
Related terms
Translations
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References
- “digitalis”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.
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Finnish
Etymology
Learned borrowing from Latin digitālis.
Pronunciation
Noun
digitalis
- digitalis (medical extract)
Declension
Further reading
- “digitalis”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish] (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 2 July 2023
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Indonesian
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
- (Standard Indonesian) IPA(key): /diɡiˈtalis/ [di.ɡiˈt̪a.lɪs]
- Rhymes: -alis
- Syllabification: di‧gi‧ta‧lis
Noun
digitalis (plural digitalis-digitalis)
- (medicine, cardiology, pharmacology) digitalis: a medical extract of Digitalis purpurea prescribed for heart failure etc
Further reading
- “digitalis” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016.
- Hadyana Pudjaatmaka; Susilowati (1987), Kamus Kimia: Biokimia [Dictionary of Chemistry: Biochemistry] (in Indonesian), Jakarta: Departemen Pendidikan dan Kebudayaan, →ISBN, page 63: “digitalis”
Latin
Etymology
Pronunciation
- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [dɪ.ɡɪˈtaː.lɪs]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [d̪i.d͡ʒiˈt̪aː.lis]
Adjective
digitālis (neuter digitāle); third-declension two-termination adjective
- Of or belonging to the finger
Declension
Third-declension two-termination adjective.
Related terms
Descendants
- Balkan Romance:
- Dalmatian:
- Italo-Romance:
- Italian: ditale
- Sicilian: jitali, jiditali, jiritali
- North Italian:
- Gallo-Romance:
- Occitano-Romance:
- Ibero-Romance:
- Insular Romance:
- Sardinian: deidale, didale
- Borrowings:
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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