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Where does “tridigitate” come from?

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

tridigitate (English): Having three fingers or finger-like projections

Definitions

  1. Having three fingers or finger-like projections

Ancestry of “tridigitate”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1EnglishdigitateHaving digits, fingers or things shaped like...
2Latindigitātus—
3Latin-ātus—
4Proto-Italic-ātos—
5Proto-Indo-European-éh₂tos—
Every word from Proto-Indo-European -éh₂tos →