dextrale

Latin

Etymology

From a substantivization of dextra (“right hand”) +‎ -āle (adjective-forming suffix).

Noun

dextrāle n (genitive dextrālis); third declension

1. bracelet
2. armlet

Declension

Third-declension noun (neuter, “pure” i-stem).

	singular	plural
nominative	dextrāle	dextrālia
genitive	dextrālis	dextrālium
dative	dextrālī	dextrālibus
accusative	dextrāle	dextrālia
ablative	dextrālī	dextrālibus
vocative	dextrāle	dextrālia

Descendants

• Northern Gallo-Romance:
  • Franco-Provençal: dètrâl
• Southern Gallo-Romance:
  • Aragonese: estral, astral
  • Catalan: destral, estral, astral
  • Occitan: destrau, destral
• Insular Romance:
  • Sardinian: istrale, bistrale

References

• “dextrale”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• "dextrale", in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• dextrale in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• “dextrale”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “dextrale”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin