δάκτῠλος, ὁ,
poetry plural δάκτυλα [[ 3rd c.BC: Theocritus Poeta Bucolicus 19.3, “Anthologia Graeca” 9.365 (4th c.AD: Julianus Imperator Imp.), also 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Physiognomonica” 810a22 ] Refs 4th c.BC+]: -finger, ἐπὶ δακτύλων συμβάλλεσθαι τοὺς μῆνας to reckon on the fingers, [[ 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 6.63; ὁ μέγας δ. ] Refs 5th c.BC+]the thumb, [[ [prev. author] 3.8, 5th c.BC: Diogenes Apolloniates Philosophus 6; ὁ μέσος 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “de Partibus Animalium” 687b18; οἱλιχανοί 5th c.BC: Hippocrates Medicus “περὶ ἄρθρων ἐμβολῆς” 37; ὁ ἔσχατος [prev. author] “PA” 687b17: proverbial, ἄκρῳ δ. γεύεσθαι 5th-6th c.AD: Procopius Gazaeus Rhetor “Epistulae - Epistolographi” 31; οὐκ ἄξια ψόφου δακτύλων 4th-3rd c.BC: Clearchus Historicus 5. ] Refs 5th c.BC+]
__2 οἱ δ. τῶν ποδῶν the toes, [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Anabasis” 4.5.12 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; and, without ποδός, [[ Batrachomyomachia 45, 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Equites” 874, 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Historia Animalium” 494a12; τὸ τῶν δ. μέγεθος ἐναντίως ἔχει ἐπί τε τῶν ποδῶν καὶ τῶν χειρῶν [prev. author] “PA” 690a30 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; ὁ μέσος δ. of a monkey, [[ [prev. author] “HA” 502b3 ] Refs]; ὁ μείζων δ. the great toe, [[ 1st-2nd c.AD: Plutarchus Biographus et Philosophus “Pyrrhus” 3 ] Refs 1st c.AD+]. b. of the toes of beasts, [[ 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Historia Animalium” 498a34 ] Refs 4th c.BC+]; of birds, [[ [prev. author] “PA” 695a22. ] Refs]
__II a measure of length, finger's breadth, = about 7/10 of an inch, [[5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 1.60, +others; πώνωμεν, δάκτυλος ἀμέρα 7th-6th c.BC: Alcaeus Lyricus 41; δάκτυλος ἀώς “Anthologia Graeca” 12.50 (3rd c.BC: Asclepiades Epigrammaticus)] Refs 7th c.BC+]: Astron., digit, i.e. twelfth part of the sun's or moon's apparent diameter, [[ 2nd c.AD: Cleomedes Astronomus 2.3. ] Refs 2nd c.AD+]