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dexter
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)
- 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.
- 1911, Saki, ‘The Match-Maker’, The Chronicles of Clovis:
Translations
Noun
dexter (plural dexters)
- (heraldry) The right side of a shield from the wearer's standpoint, and the left side to the viewer.
- 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)
- right (relative direction), right hand
- Antonyms: laevus, scaevus, sinister
- skillful
- fortunate, favorable
- 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.
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dextral
English
Adjective
dextral (comparative more dextral, superlative most dextral)
- Of or pertaining to the right side
Antonyms
- sinistral
Related terms
- dexter
German
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [d?ks?t?a?l]
- Hyphenation: dex?tral
Adjective
dextral (not comparable)
- dextral
Declension
Further reading
- “dextral” in Duden online
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