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"digital" in seven languages

Meaningdigital

Spanish

digital

/dixiˈtal/

learned

French

numérique

/nymeʁik/

other source · Latin NUMERUS 'number' (learned)

Digital is heard but frowned upon; une empreinte digitale is a fingerprint.

Italian

digitale

/didʒiˈtale/

learned

Also 'of the finger': impronta digitale 'fingerprint'.

Portuguese

digital

/dʒiʒiˈtaw/

learned

Romanian

digital

/didʒiˈtal/

learned

Catalan

digital

/diʒiˈtal/

learned

English

digital

/ˈdɪdʒɪtəl/

from Latin/French · Latin DIGITĀLIS

English → ItaliandigitaldigitaleCognateSame source — inherited, learned or borrowed. You can recognize it.What English and Italian share

The Latin ancestor

DIGITĀLEM‘of the finger (DIGITUS)’

All six sisters descend from it, unless marked otherwise below.

The story

We counted on our fingers, so a finger (DIGITUS) became a digit. French prefers numérique, 'numerical'. The inherited finger words are dedo, doigt, dito.

English relatives: digit, digitize

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In a sentence

  • esVivimos en la era digital.
  • frNous vivons à l'ère numérique.
  • itViviamo nell'era digitale.
  • ptVivemos na era digital.
  • roTrăim în era digitală.
  • caVivim a l'era digital.
  • enWe live in the digital age.

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