didal
English
Noun
didal (plural didals)
- (obsolete) A kind of triangular spade.
Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “didal”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)
Catalan
Etymology
Inherited from Late Latin digitāle, from Latin digitālis (“digital”). Doublet of digital, which was borrowed from Latin.
Noun
didal m (plural didals)
- thimble
- fingercot, fingerstall
- (in the plural) foxglove, especially dwarf Spanish foxglove (Digitalis minor), a species endemic to the Balearic Islands
- acorn cup
- small glass
Related terms
Further reading
- “didal” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
- “didal” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.
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