Dactyl.
(Of thelat.)dacty? lus, and this of theGr. d?(t?, finger).
1. m walk from the Greek and Latin poetry, composed of three syllables, the first, long, and the other two, brief.
2. m. In the Spanish metric, made up of a syllable foot and two unstressed. U t. c. adj.
dactilo - or -Dactyl.
