Where does “digital” come from?
digital (Romanian) comes from French digital, from Latin digitālis, from Latin digitus, from Proto-Indo-European deyḱ- — to point out.
digital (Romanian): digital
Ancestry of “digital”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|
| 1 | French | digital | of or pertaining to fingers or toes; digital |
| 2 | Latin | digitālis | — |
| 3 | Latin | digitus | a finger, toe, digit; a twig |
| 4 | Proto-Indo-European | deyḱ- | to point out |