different between dexter vs defter

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin dexter, from Proto-Indo-European *de?s(i)-tero-, from *de?s- (“right”) (Pokorny, Watkins, 1969; et al.). Compare Epic Greek ????????? (dexiterós, “right hand”), ?????? (dexiós, “right”), Old Church Slavonic ????? (desn?, “right”).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?d?kst?/

Adjective

dexter (not comparable)

1. Right; on the right-hand side.
   • 1911, Saki, ‘The Match-Maker’, The Chronicles of Clovis:

     Clovis wiped the trace of Turkish coffee and the beginnings of a smile from his lips, and slowly lowered his dexter eyelid.

Translations

Noun

dexter (plural dexters)

1. (heraldry) The right side of a shield from the wearer's standpoint, and the left side to the viewer.
2. The right hand.

Translations

See also

• sinister

Latin

Alternative forms

• dester (Vulgar or Late Latin, Pompeian inscriptions)

Etymology

From Proto-Italic *deksiteros, from Proto-Indo-European *de?si-tero-s, from *de?s- (“right”). Cognate with Ancient Greek ?????? (dexiós), Old High German zesawa (“right hand, right hand side”), Sanskrit ?????? (dák?i?a).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /?dek.ster/, [?d??ks?t??r]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /?dek.ster/, [?d??kst??r]

Adjective

dexter (feminine dextra or dextera, neuter dextrum or dexterum); first/second-declension adjective (nominative masculine singular in -er; two different stems)

1. right (relative direction), right hand

   Antonyms: laevus, scaevus, sinister

2. skillful
3. fortunate, favorable
4. proper, fitting

Declension

First/second-declension adjective (nominative masculine singular in -er; two different stems).

Derived terms

• dextere
• dextr?
• dexterit?s
• dextr?le n, dextr?liolum n
• dextr?rsum, dextr?rsus, dextr?versum
• ambidexter

Related terms

• dextral

Descendants

References

• dexter in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• dexter in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• dexter in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
• Carl Meissner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book?^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.

English

Etymology 1

Adjective

defter

1. comparative form of deft: more deft

Etymology 2

From Turkish defter, from Arabic ???????? (daftar), from Aramaic ???????? (defter), from Ancient Greek ??????? (diphthéra). Doublet of letter.

Noun

defter (plural defters)

1. (historical) A type of tax register that was used in the Ottoman Empire.

Related terms

• defterdar

Crimean Tatar

Etymology

From Arabic ???????? (daftar), from Aramaic ???????? (defter), from Ancient Greek ??????? (diphthéra).

Noun

defter

1. notebook

Declension

Northern Kurdish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /d?f?t??/

Noun

defter f

1. notebook

Synonyms

• lênûsk

Serbo-Croatian

Alternative forms

• t?fter

Etymology

From Ottoman Turkish ????? (defter), from Arabic ???????? (daftar), from Aramaic ???????? (defter), from Ancient Greek ??????? (diphthéra).

Noun

d?fter m (Cyrillic spelling ???????)

1. notebook
2. (accounting) books, accounting records, register
3. (historical) defter, Ottoman tax register

Turkish

Etymology

From Arabic ???????? (daftar), from Aramaic ???????? (defter), from Ancient Greek ??????? (diphthéra).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [def?tæ?]
• Hyphenation: def?ter

Noun

defter (definite accusative defteri, plural defterler)

1. notebook

Declension

Derived terms

• amel defteri
• büyük defteri
• defteri dürülmek
• defter-i kebir