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digitate en · ADJ

Pronunciation

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• /ˈdɪdʒɪtət/
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Etymology

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)).

Meanings

1. (not-comparable) Having digits, fingers or things shaped like fingers; fingerlike
2. (not-comparable) Having parts that spread out from a common point in a finger-like manner.

Deriveds

tridigitate · unidigitate · polydigitate · sexdigitate · subdigitate · quinquedigitate · quadridigitate · bidigitate · digitately · paridigitate · multidigitate

Relateds

palmate

Translations (9)

ar إِصْبَعِيّ (having or resembling fingers or being fingerlike) · la digitātus (botany: having leaves divided in finger-like parts) · fi sormilehdykkäinen (botany: having leaves divided in finger-like parts) · fi sormimainen (fingerlike) (having or resembling fingers or being fingerlike) · de fingerförmig (botany: having leaves divided in finger-like parts) · de fingerförmig (having or resembling fingers or being fingerlike) · fi sormellinen (having or resembling fingers or being fingerlike) · la digitātus (having or resembling fingers or being fingerlike) · ar إِصْبَعِيّ (botany: having leaves divided in finger-like parts)

digitate en · VERB

Pronunciation

• (Southern-England) audio
• /ˈdɪdʒɪteɪt/
• (Southern-England) audio

Etymology

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)).

Meanings

1. (obsolete) To point out as with one's finger, indicate.
   • The supine resting on Water onely by retention of Air[…]doth digitate a reason. 1658, John Robinson, Eudoxa:
2. To spread out from a common point in a finger-like manner.
   • But what is most worthy of notice is, that the greater number of muscular fibres arising from the coracoid and radio-ulnar bones form a pectoral muscle, superficial to the other fibres of the great lateral, and digitating with them along the side of the fish opposite the extremities of the fifth, sixth, seventh, and eighth ribs. 1857 December 23, John Cleland, “On the Skeleton, Muscles, and Viscera of Malapterurus Beninensis”, in Proceedings of the Royal Physical Society of Edinburgh, volume 1, Edinburgh, published 1858, page 393:

Forms

Deriveds

digitation · interdigitate

Relateds

digit · digital

Translations (5)

ar تَصَبَّعَ (to spread in a finger-like manner.) · la digitō (to point out) · ar صَبَعَ (to point out) · de fingerförmig emporragen (to spread in a finger-like manner.) · fi osoittaa sormella (to point out)