dexter

Meanings

Adjective

• Right; on the right-hand side.

Noun

• The right side of a shield from the wearer's standpoint, and the left side to the viewer.
• The right hand.

Origin

• Borrowed from Latin dexter, from Proto-Indo-European *deḱs(i)-tero-, from *deḱs- (Pokorny, Watkins, 1969; et al.). Compare , δεξιός, Old Church Slavonic деснъ ("right").