δακτύλου (daktylou)

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

It can also be a form of Δακτύλης, “Daktyles — the Dactyls of mount Ida in Phrygia, fabulous beings to whom the discovery of iron and the art…”. It is the genitive singular masculine noun or adjective.

Found 26 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Plutarch, Tiberius and Caius Gracchus Tiberius.17.3: καὶ πρὶν ἐξελθεῖν προσέπταισε πρὸς τὸν οὐδόν, σφοδρᾶς οὕτω πληγῆς γενομένης ὥστε τὸν μὲν ὄνυχα τοῦ μεγάλου δακτύλου ῥαγῆναι, τὸ δὲ αἷμα διὰ τοῦ ὑποδήματος ἔξω φέρεσθαι. μικρὸν δὲ αὐτοῦ προελθόντος ὤφθησαν ὑπὲρ κεράμου μαχόμεν …

Pausanias, Description of Greece 8.34.2: … δὲ τοῦ ἱεροῦ γῆς χῶμά ἐστιν οὐ μέγα, ἐπίθημα ἔχον λίθου πεποιημένον δάκτυλον, καὶ δὴ καὶ ὄνομα τῷ χώματί ἐστι Δακτύλου μνῆμα· ἐνταῦθα ἔκφρονα Ὀρέστην γενόμενον λέγουσιν ἕνα τῆς ἑτέρας τῶν χειρῶν ἀποφαγεῖν δάκτυλον. τούτῳ δέ ἐστι …

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.