Dactyl

_A Dactyl is a three-syllable foot accented on the first syllable.

English: Composition and Literature 1899

"Dactyl" is a fine word; in Greek it means "finger"; like a finger, a poetic dactyl has three parts, one long and two short.

Practical English Composition: Book II. For the Second Year of the High School Edwin L. Miller

"Dactyl" might make sense to you (in which case you should just say it and stop), but if it doesn't you can split it again by syllables into "dac" (pronounced that way) and "tyl" (pronounced either "til" or

digg.com: Stories / Popular 2009

Just Paulie the balloon-head, orbiting me like Dactyl round Ida.

Asimov's Science Fiction 2004

Dactyl, or Anapaest, though the last two are less frequent.

New Latin Grammar Charles E. Bennett

Lowell's genius is infinitely pliable, accommodating itself without hesitation to the arbitrary requirements of the Sieur Spondee, and laughing in the face of the halting Dactyl.

The Continental Monthly, Vol. 1, No. 2, February, 1862 Devoted To Literature And National Policy Various

Issuing upon the street, Dactyl said something about going back to the office, but the air and sunlight said him nay.

Pipefuls Christopher Morley 1923

Whereupon succeeded a course of honeycomb tripe, which moved Dactyl to quoting Rabelais, something that Grangousier had said about tripes.

Pipefuls Christopher Morley 1923

Dactyl, meanwhile, was digging out some volumes of Gissing, and on the faces of both these creatures might have been seen a pleasant radiation of innocent cheer.

Pipefuls Christopher Morley 1923

How long ago it seems, that spring noonshine when two young men (we will call them Dactyl and Spondee) set off to plunder the golden bag of Time.

Pipefuls Christopher Morley 1923