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Where does “digitate” come from?

digitate (English) comes from Latin digitātus, from Latin -ātus, from Proto-Italic -ātos, from Proto-Indo-European -éh₂tos.

digitate (English): Having digits, fingers or things shaped like...

Definitions

  1. Having digits, fingers or things shaped like...

Ancestry of “digitate”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Latindigitātus—
2Latin-ātus—
3Proto-Italic-ātos—
4Proto-Indo-European-éh₂tos—

Words derived from “digitate”

  • interdigitation
  • interdigitate
  • digitation
  • digitately
  • bidigitate
  • quadridigitate
  • quinquedigitate
  • multidigitate
  • tridigitate
  • sexdigitate
  • paridigitate
Every word from Proto-Indo-European -éh₂tos →