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CBadger wrote:
Dextral - from dexter -> meaning right
I think if you dig into it, dexter is more relate to implication of being capable, which as we all know, is predomoniantly a right-handed situation (as it should be).

Although we tend to dwell on the Latin derivation
Dexterity
From the Latin "dexter," for "right" (in the sense of right-left).


I suggest that the derivation is more akin to the typical meanings as described Here^, and that label thus applied to 'right'. Since left-handedness was considered (rightly) an ill omen, it was logically named such.

You're welcome to disagree, but that would, indeed, have sinister implications.




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