δάκτυλον (daktylon)

δάκτυλον is an Ancient Greek form of δάκτυλος, meaning “finger”. It is the accusative singular masculine noun.

Found 74 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Diogenes Laertius, Vitae philosophorum 1.11.118: … ὸν βίον τελευτῆσαι· ὅτε καὶ Πυθαγόρου παραγενομένου καὶ πυνθανομένου, πῶς διακέοιτο, διαβαλόντα τῆς θύρας τὸν δάκτυλον εἰπεῖν, χροῒ δῆλα· καὶ τοὐντεῦθεν παρὰ τοῖς φιλολόγοις ἡ λέξις ἐπὶ τῶν χειρόνων τάττεται, οἱ δʼ ἐπὶ τῶν βελτί …

Aristophanes, Wasps 275a: τῷ σκότῳ τὸν δάκτυλόν που,

All forms of δάκτυλος (declension table)

Source: Socratos (socratos.org), a free reader for Ancient Greek and Latin. Grammar from the Perseus Treebank and Morpheus; dictionary entries from Liddell-Scott-Jones, A Greek-English Lexicon (Perseus Digital Library, CC BY-SA). Counts are from the texts on Socratos.