English
digitate
Digitate comes from Latin digitus ‘finger, toe’.
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEdigitus‘finger, toe’
- Latin, derivedc. 75 BCE–200 CEdigitātus
- Englishearliest quotation 1658digitate
attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed
Earlier history uncertain.
Lineage
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEdigitus‘finger, toe’
- Latin, derivedc. 75 BCE–200 CEdigitātus
- Englishearliest quotation 1658digitate
Earliest quotation: 1658, John Robinson: “The supine resting on Water onely by retention of…”
first attested The adjective is first attested in 1661, the verb in 1657; the adjective was borrowed from Latin digitātus (see -ate (adjective-forming suffix)), the verb from digitātus, perfect passive participle of digitō (see -ate (verb-forming suffix)) (as stated in the etymology)
The story
The adjective is first attested in 1661, the verb in 1657; the adjective was borrowed from Latin digitātus (see -ate (adjective-forming suffix)), the verb from digitātus, perfect passive participle of digitō (see -ate (verb-forming suffix)).
Linked words
through Proto-Indo-European *deyḱ- ‘to point out, to show’
index, teach, toe, predict, dictionary, indicate, token, indication, indicator, addict, contradictory, contradiction, indicative, paradigm, contradict, dictator, syndicate, ditto, dictate, diction, predicate, dictum, ditty, syndicalism, interdict, dict, indicia, tache, 43 more
Today it means
adj Having digits, fingers or things shaped like fingers; fingerlike
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / Latin digitus / digitate