Etymology

digitigrade

di·gi·ti·grade
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Today it means: Of an animal: walking on the toes, putting the weight of the body mainly on the ball of the foot, with the back of the foot, or heel, raised. Full definition →

French digitigrade ← Latin digitus
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The story

  1. Latin · derived fromdigitus“finger, toe, digit”
  2. French · derived fromdigitigrade
  3. English todaydigitigrade

From French digitigrade, from Latin digitus (“finger, toe, digit”) + -grade (“gait”); compare New Latin digitigradus.

Words from the same roots

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Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.