The story
- Latin · borrowed fromdigitātus
- English todaydigitate
The adjective is first attested in 1661, the verb in 1657; the adjective was borrowed from Latin digitātus (see -ate (adjective-forming suffix)), the verb from digitātus, perfect passive participle of digitō (see -ate (verb-forming suffix)).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.