dexter
See also: Dexter
English
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin dexter, from Proto-Indo-European *deḱs(i)-tero-, from *deḱs- (“right”) (Pokorny, Watkins, 1969; et al.). Compare Homeric Greek δεξιτερός (dexiterós, “right hand”), δεξιός (dexiós, “right”), Old Church Slavonic деснъ (desnŭ, “right”).
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /ˈdɛkstə/
Adjective
dexter (not comparable)
- Right; on the right-hand side.
- 1887, George William Foote; J. M. Wheeler, Crimes of Christianity, London: Progressive Publishing:
- Displaying his dexter palm, he exclaimed that there was a hand that never took a bribe; whereupon a smart auditor cried "How about the one behind your back?"
- 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.
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Translations
Latin
Alternative forms
- dester (Vulgar or Late Latin, Pompeian inscriptions)
Etymology
From Proto-Italic *deksteros, from Proto-Indo-European *deḱs(i)-tero-, from *deḱs- (“right”). Cognates include Ancient Greek δεξιός (dexiós), Old High German zesawa "right hand", "right hand side" and Sanskrit दक्षिण (dákṣiṇa).
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈdek.ster/, [ˈdɛk.stɛr]
Inflection
Derived terms
- dextere
- dextrē
- dexteritās
- dextrāle n, dextrāliolum n
- dextrōrsum, dextrōrsus, dextrōversum
- ambidexter
Related terms
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, London: Macmillan and Co.
- (ambiguous) to give one's hand to some one: manum (dextram) alicui porrigere
- (ambiguous) to give one's right hand to some one: dextram alicui porrigere, dare
- (ambiguous) to shake hands with a person: dextram iungere cum aliquo, dextras inter se iungere
- (ambiguous) to give one's hand to some one: manum (dextram) alicui porrigere
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