Noun: datil
| Singular | datil |
| Plural | datils |
Sample Sentences
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The first Datil was probably brought to the United States from the West Indies during either the British period or the second Spanish occupation of East Florida (1784–1821).[…] The word “Dátil” refers to the fruit of the date palm, both in Spanish and in the language of the Minorcans who named the pepper in St. Augustine. [1995, Jean Andrews, Peppers: The Domesticated Capsicums, page 127:]
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No one knows if the colonists brought datil peppers with them.[…] More than likely the Minorcans did give the incendiary peppers their name, for the green to gold pods somewhat resemble dates, a linkage cemented by the knowledge that datil is the word for the fruit of the date palm in both the Catalan and Spanish languages. [2007, John Edge, Southern Belly, page 67:]
Nouns inflected like datil
soldier's woundwort,
Nicosian,
whopper,
greypate,
tactile sign language,
chronotrope,
Rosie Lee,
dissentient,
photoinactivator,
sulphonediimine,
coastal waterfall,
residuary devise,
bituminization,
nitrosonaphthol,
smṛiti,
geosphere,
backscreen,
mensuralist,
flocculate,
flocculant, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
Uncertain. Perhaps from Catalan dàtil or Spanish dátil (“date”); see quotes below. See: Catalan Nouns '
dàtil', Spanish Nouns '
dátil'.