dextra

See also: Dextra

Ido

Etymology

From Esperanto dekstra, from Italian destro, Latin dexter.

Adjective

dextra

1. right

Antonyms

• sinistra (“left”)

Latin

Alternative forms

• dextera

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈdek.stra/, [ˈd̪ɛks̠t̪rä]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈdek.stra/, [ˈd̪ɛkst̪rä]

Adjective

dextra

1. inflection of dexter:
   1. feminine nominative/vocative singular
   2. neuter nominative/accusative/vocative plural

Adjective

dextrā

1. feminine ablative singular of dexter

Noun

dextra f (genitive dextrae); first declension

1. right hand
   • 29 BCE – 19 BCE, Virgil, Aeneid 1.97–98:

     “[...] Mēne Īliacīs occumbere campīs
     nōn potuisse tuāque animam hanc effundere dextrā [...].”

     “[...] Oh [Diomedes], why could I not have been [honored] to fall on the Ilian fields – and by your right hand – to pour out this life [...].”
     (Aeneas, facing inglorious death at sea, laments that he did not die defending Troy or Ilion, where he was nearly slain by the Greek warrior Diomedes.)

Declension

First-declension noun.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	dextra	dextrae
Genitive	dextrae	dextrārum
Dative	dextrae	dextrīs
Accusative	dextram	dextrās
Ablative	dextrā	dextrīs
Vocative	dextra	dextrae

Preposition

dextrā ( accusative)

1. (post-Augustan) on the right side of

References

• “dextra”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “dextra”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• dextra 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)
• dextra in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
  • (ambiguous) to give one's hand to some one: manum (dextram) alicui porrigere
    
  • (ambiguous) to give one's right hand to some one: dextram alicui porrigere, dare
    
  • (ambiguous) to shake hands with a person: dextram iungere cum aliquo, dextras inter se iungere
    

Portuguese

Noun

dextra f (plural dextras)

1. Obsolete spelling of destra.

Adjective

dextra

1. Obsolete spelling of destra.

Romanian

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from Latin dextra.

Noun

dextra f (uncountable)

1. (heraldry) dexter

Declension

This noun needs an inflection-table template.

Please edit the entry and supply |def= and |pl= parameters to the {{ro-noun-f}} template.

References

• dextra in Academia Română, Micul dicționar academic, ediția a II-a, Bucharest: Univers Enciclopedic, 2010. →ISBN