dactylogram
\ dak-TIL-uh-gram \,noun;
1.a fingerprint.
Quotes:
An impression of the five fingers of each hand is made upon the card ; then, in view of the dactylogram obtained, one can establish the dactylographic formula of the subject…
-- Edited by John Henry Wigmore, The Principles of Judicial Proof , 1913
The brevity of this primer doesn't allow for discussion of the complex dialectic relationship between principally the photographic portrait and the dactylogram , as the fingerprint was first called.
-- Giacomo Papi, translated by Jamie Richards, Booked: The Last 150 Years Told through Mug Shots , 2006
Origin:
Dactylogram is a combination of dactylo- meaning "finger" and -gram meaning "something written." It entered English in the 1910s.
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