Where does “digit” come from?

Digit comes from Middle English digit, from Latin digitus meaning finger, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European deyǵ- and deyḱ-.

digit (English): The whole numbers from 0 to 9 and the Arabic...

Definitions

  1. The whole numbers from 0 to 9 and the Arabic...

Ancestry of “digit”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Middle Englishdigitdigit
2Latindigitusa finger, toe, digit; a twig
3Proto-Indo-Europeandeyḱ-to point out

Words derived from “digit

Every word from Proto-Indo-European deyḱ-
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