The story
- Latin · derived fromdigitālis“of the fingers”
- English todaydigitalis
Modern Latin, from Latin digitālis (“of the fingers”) (named in reference to the German common name for the plant, Fingerhut (“thimble”)). Doublet of digital.
Words from the same roots
Latindigitālis all →
digital
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.