digitus
English
noun
Definitions
- (historical) An Ancient Roman unit of length, approximately 0.73 inches.
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin digitus (finger, toe, digit, a fingerbreadth, a number).
Origin
Latin
digitus
Gloss
finger, toe, digit, a fingerbreadth, a number
Concept
Semantic Field
The body
Ontological Category
Person/Thing
Kanji
指
Emoji
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Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- dital English
- prestidigitation English
- digitalis Latin
- digitatus Latin
- digitifer Latin
- digito Latin
- digitus Latin
- dito Italian
- digitigrade French
- prestidigitateur French
- dígito Spanish, Castilian
- *deyǵ- Proto-Indo-European
- *diǵ- Proto-Indo-European
- dígito Portuguese
- digit Middle English
- doit Old French
- dit Catalan, Valencian
- deget Romanian, Moldavian, Moldovan
- dedo Old Portuguese
- dzeadzit Aromanian
- det Occitan
- dit Occitan
- det Romansh
- deu Asturian
- dêt Friulian
- dedo Old Spanish
- jiritu Sicilian
- det Venetian
- déo Venetian
- dîo Ligurian
- detco Dalmatian
- doigt Bourguignon
- dido Aragonese
- digito Interlingua