digit

See also: dígit

English

Etymology

From Middle English digit, from Latin digitus (“a fingerbreadth; a number”).

Pronunciation

• enPR: dĭ'jĭt, IPA^(key): /ˈdɪdʒɪt/

• Audio (US):

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• Rhymes: -ɪdʒɪt

Noun

The Egyptian hieroglyph for "digit" (ḏbꜥ, D50).

digit (plural digits)

1. (mathematics) The whole numbers from 0 to 9 and the Arabic numerals representing them, which are combined to represent base-ten numbers.

   The number 123.4 has four digits: the hundreds digit is 1, the tens digit is 2, the units digit is 3, and the tenths digit is 4.

2. (mathematics) Similarly fundamental numerals in other systems.

   Hexadecimal numeration (Base sixteen) includes the digits 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9 but also A (=10 decimal), B, C, D, E, and F. Sixteen itself is written as the two-digit number 10.

3. (units of measure, astronomy) ¹⁄₁₂ the apparent diameter of the sun or moon, (chiefly) as a measure of the totality of an eclipse.

   A six-digit eclipse covers half the lunar surface.

4. (historical units of measure) A unit of length notionally based upon the width of an adult human finger, standardized differently in various places and times, (especially) the English digit of ¹⁄₁₆ foot (about 1.9 cm).
5. (units of measure, obsolete) Synonym of inch.
6. (anatomy) A narrow extremity of the human hand or foot: a finger, thumb, or toe.
7. (zoology) Similar or similar-looking structures in other animals.
   • (Can we date this quote by Owen and provide title, author’s full name, and other details?)

     The ruminants have the cloven foot, i.e. two hoofed digits on each foot.

8. (geometry, rare, obsolete) Synonym of degree: ¹⁄₃₆₀ of a circle.

Synonyms

• (numerical place): place, figure (informal, usually in discussion of money)
• (astronomical unit): finger (obsolete)
• (unit of length): finger, fingerbreadth, fingersbreadth

Hyponyms

• (extremity of the hand or foot): finger, thumb, toe

Related terms

• digits

Derived terms

• digital
• digit counter
• digitize
• digit number (obsolete)
• digit pulse

Translations

finger or toe

• Arabic: إِصْبَع m (ʔiṣbaʕ)
• Armenian: մատ (hy) (mat)
• Belarusian: па́лец m (páljec)
• Bengali: আঙুল (angul), (finger) হাতের আঙুল (hater angul), (toe) পায়ের আঙুল (paẏer angul)
• Bulgarian: пръст (bg) m (prǎst)
• Burmese: လက်ချောင်း (my) (lakhkyaung:)
• Catalan: dit (ca) m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 手指 (zh) (shǒuzhǐ) (finger), 腳趾／脚趾 (zh) (jiǎozhǐ), 脚趾 (zh) (jiǎozhǐ) (toe)

• Czech: prst (cs) m
• Danish: finger (da) c (finger), tå (da) c (toe)
• Dolgan: чөмүйэ (çömüye)
• Dutch: vinger (nl) m (finger), teen (nl) m (toe)
• Egyptian: (ḏbꜥ) (finger, also toe by late period)
• Finnish: sormi (fi) (finger), varvas (fi) (toe)
• French: doigt (fr) m (finger), orteil (fr) m (toe)
• Galician: dedo (gl) m
• German: Finger (de) (finger), Zeh (de) (toe)
• Greek: δάκτυλο (el) n (dáktylo)

  Ancient: δάκτυλος m (dáktulos)

• Hungarian: ujj (hu)
• Indonesian: jari (id)
• Interlingua: digito
• Japanese: 指 (ja) (ゆび, yubí)
• Khmer: ម្រាម (km) (mriəm)
• Korean: 손가락 (ko) (son'garak) (finger), 발가락 (ko) (balgarak) (toe)
• Lao: ນີ້ວ (nīu)
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• Latin: digitus (la) m
• Macedonian: прст m (prst)
• Malay: jari
• Manchu: ᠰᡳᠮᡥᡠᠨ (simhun), ᡧᡠᠮᡥᡠᠨ (šumhun)
• Norwegian: finger (no) (finger), tå (no) (toe)
• Old Church Slavonic:

  Cyrillic: прьстъ m (prĭstŭ)

  Glagolitic: ⱂⱃⱐⱄⱅⱏ m (prĭstŭ)

• Old East Slavic: пальць m (palĭcĭ), пьрстъ m (pĭrstŭ)
• Persian: انگشت (fa) (angošt)
• Polish: palec (pl) m
• Portuguese: dígito (pt), dedo (pt)
• Romanian: deget (ro) n
• Russian: па́лец (ru) m (pálec), перст (ru) m (perst) (dated or poetic)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: пр̏ст m

  Roman: pȑst (sh) m

• Slovak: prst (sk) m
• Slovene: prst (sl) m
• Spanish: dedo (es) m
• Swedish: finger (sv) (finger), tå (sv) (toe)
• Thai: นิ้ว (th) (níu)
• Turkish: parmak (tr)
• Ukrainian: па́лець (uk) m (pálecʹ)
• Vietnamese: ngón (vi)
• Walloon: doet (wa) m (finger), årtea (wa) m (toe), doye f (toe)
• Yakut: тарбах (tarbaq)

numeral

• Arabic: رَقْم (ar) m (raqm)
• Armenian: թվանշան (hy) (tʻvanšan)
• Azerbaijani: rəqəm (az)
• Belarusian: цы́фра f (cýfra), лі́чба f (líčba)
• Bulgarian: ци́фра (bg) f (cífra)
• Burmese: ဂဏန်း (my) (ga.nan:)
• Catalan: xifra (ca) f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 數字／数字 (zh) (shùzì), 数字 (zh) (shùzì)

• Czech: číslice (cs) f
• Danish: ciffer (da) n
• Dutch: cijfer (nl) n
• Esperanto: cifero
• Finnish: numero (fi)
• French: chiffre (fr) m
• German: Ziffer (de) f, Stelle (de)
• Greek: ψηφίο (el) n (psifío), αριθμός (el) m (arithmós)
• Hebrew: סִפְרָה (he) f (sifrá)
• Hungarian: számjegy (hu)
• Icelandic: tala (is), tölustafur (is)
• Ido: cifro (io)
• Interlingua: digito, cifra
• Irish: figiúr m
• Italian: cifra (it)
• Japanese: 数字 (ja) (すうじ, sūji)
• Khmer: លេខ (km) (leek)
• Korean: 숫자 (ko) (sutja) (數字 (ko))
• Lao: ເລກ (lēk)
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Macedonian: цифра f (cifra)
• Malayalam: അക്കം (ml) (akkaṁ)
• Manx: bun-earroo m
• Maori: mati
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: siffer (no) n

  Nynorsk: siffer n

• Persian: رقم (fa) (raqam)
• Polish: cyfra (pl)
• Portuguese: dígito (pt) m, algarismo (pt) m
• Romanian: cifră (ro) f
• Russian: ци́фра (ru) f (cífra)
• Scottish Gaelic: figear m
• Serbo-Croatian: znamenka (sh)

  Cyrillic: цифра f

  Latin: cifra (sh) f

• Slovak: číslica (sk) f
• Slovene: številka f, števka f
• Spanish: dígito (es) m, cifra (es) f
• Swedish: siffra (sv)
• Tagalog: tambilang
• Tajik: рақам (tg) (raqam)
• Telugu: అంకె (te) (aṅke)
• Thai: เลข (th) (lêek)
• Turkish: rakam (tr)
• Ukrainian: ци́фра (uk) f (cýfra)
• Vietnamese: chữ số

unit of length

• Egyptian: (ḏbꜥ)
• French: doigt (fr) m
• Hungarian: ujj (hu)
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Latin: digitus (la)
• Persian: انگشت (fa)
• Spanish: dedo (es) m

Verb

digit (third-person singular simple present digits, present participle digiting, simple past and past participle digited)

1. (transitive) To point at or point out with the finger.

References

• "digit, n. and adj.", in the Oxford English Dictionary, Oxford: Oxford University Press.

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Middle English

Alternative forms

• digite, digitus

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin digitus.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈdidʒit/, /ˈdidʒitus/

Noun

digit (plural digitys)

1. A digit (Arabic numeral)

Descendants

• English: digit

References

• “diǧit (n.)”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2019-02-21.