Etymology

dital

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Today it means: A finger-operated key for raising the pitch of a guitar by a semitone. Full definition →

Italian ditale ← Latin digitus
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  1. Latin · derived fromdigitus“finger”
  2. Italian · derived fromditale
  3. English todaydital

From Italian ditale, from Latin digitus (“finger”).

Words from the same roots

Latindigitus all →

dedodigitusdigitigradedigitorium

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.