didal

Inherited from Late Latin digitāle, from Latin digitālis (“digital”). Doublet of digital, which was borrowed from Latin.

The word is used in the plural as a common name for the foxglove because of the fingerstall- or thimble-like shape of the flowers.^[1]

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic, Valencia) [diˈðal]

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didal m (plural didals)

1. thimble
2. fingercot, fingerstall
3. (in the plural) foxglove, especially dwarf Spanish foxglove (Digitalis minor), a species endemic to the Balearic Islands
4. acorn cup
5. small glass

• didalera
• didalet

• dit

• “didal”, in Diccionari de la llengua catalana [Dictionary of the Catalan Language] (in Catalan), second edition, Institute of Catalan Studies [Catalan: Institut d'Estudis Catalans], April 2007
• Alcover, Antoni Maria; Moll, Francesc de Borja (1963), “didal”, in Diccionari català-valencià-balear (in Catalan)

From di- +‎ tal (“pay”).

didal

1. free, gratis

   Synonym: heb kost

• “didal” in Cornish Dictionary / Gerlyver Kernewek, Akademi Kernewek.

• (Standard Tagalog) IPA^(key): /diˈdal/ [d̪ɪˈd̪al]
• Rhymes: -al
• Syllabification: di‧dal

didál (Baybayin spelling ᜇᜒᜇᜎ᜔)

1. alternative form of dedal

Borrowed from Spanish dedal (“thimble”).

didál

1. thimble