The story
- Proto-Indo-European · derived from*deyǵ-“to show, to point out”
- Latin · derived fromdigitus
- Old Galician-Portuguese · derived fromdedo
- Portuguese · borrowed fromdedo“digit, finger”
- English todaydedo
From Spanish and Portuguese dedo (“digit, finger”), from Old Spanish and Old Galician-Portuguese dedo, from Latin digitus, from Proto-Indo-European *deyǵ- (“to show, to point out”). Doublet of digit.
Words from the same roots
Latindigitus all →
digitusdigitigradedigitoriumdital
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.