digitus
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English[edit]
Noun[edit]
digitus (plural digiti)
- An Ancient Roman unit of length, approximately 0.73 inches.
Latin[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Proto-Indo-European *deyǵ- (“to show, point out, pronounce solemnly”), variant of the root *deyḱ- that also gave Latin dīcō (“I say, speak talk”) and English toe. Fingers were thus "pointers, indicators". Digit sense comes from the fact that they were used for counting up to ten.
Indo-European cognates include Sanskrit दिशति (diśáti, “to show, point out”), Ancient Greek δείκνυμι (deíknumi, “to show”), δίκη (díkē, “manner, custom”), Old English tǣċan (“to show, point out”) (English teach) and tācen (English token).
Compare similar semantic shift in English in the cognate word teacher (“forefinger, index finger”).
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
digitus m (genitive digitī); second declension
Inflection[edit]
| Case | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| nominative | digitus | digitī |
| genitive | digitī | digitōrum |
| dative | digitō | digitīs |
| accusative | digitum | digitōs |
| ablative | digitō | digitīs |
| vocative | digite | digitī |
Derived terms[edit]
Descendants[edit]
References[edit]
- digitus in Charlton T. Lewis & Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- digitus in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- DIGITUS in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
- digitus in Félix Gaffiot (1934), Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette.
- Meissner, Carl; Auden, Henry William (1894) Latin Phrase-Book[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
- to touch with the fingertips: extremis digitis aliquid attingere
- to touch with the fingertips: extremis digitis aliquid attingere
- digitus in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
- digitus in William Smith et al., editor (1890) A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin
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