sinistromanual en · ADJ
Pronunciation
- /ˈsɪ.nɪs.tɹoʊˌmæn.jə.wəl/ (General-American)
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- /ˈsɪ.nɪs.tɹəʊˌman.jʊ.əl/ (Received-Pronunciation)
Etymology
From sinistro- + manual.
Meanings
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(not-comparable) Left-handed.
In a world where most major medical maladies are readily treated, numerous minor medical conditions which today escape our notice will rise up from obscurity and present themselves annoyingly to our conscious minds, demanding attention. These conditions may be of several kinds. […] Third is minor physical or functional flaws, such as […] handedness (currently ~90% dextromanual, ~10% sinistromanual), […]
2008, S[hiv] K[ant] Prasad, “Revolutionary Nanotechnology”, in Modern Concepts in Nanotechnology (Encyclopaedia of Nanoscience; V), New Delhi: Discovery Publishing House, →ISBN, page 187:"Precisely. Whoever killed this young girl was sinistromanual, an unusual state in this day." / "My murderer was left-handed? That is most unusual, I agree. How do you come to that finding?"
2012, Frederick Ramsay, chapter V, in The Eighth Veil (A Jerusalem Mystery), Scottsdale, Ariz.: Poisoned Pen Press, →ISBN, page 31:[T]he artist, probably for the sake of symmetry, makes one right-handed and the other left-handed. The alternative, of course, is that the latter actually was a sinistromanual player of note [of the game of t'ou hu or pitch-pot] and was thus intentionally represented. In any event, we have in this relief a very early Chinese illustration of this phenomenon.
1978, David T[od] Roy, Tsuen-hsuin Tsien, editors, Ancient China: Studies in Early Civilization, Hong Kong: The Chinese University Press, published 1982, →ISBN, page 280:
Antonyms
Relateds
ambilevous · ambisinistrous · ambidextrous
Synonyms
Translations (1)
es sinistrómano (left-handed)