digit

See also: dígit

English

Etymology

From Middle English digit, from Latin digitus (“a fingerbreadth; a number”). Doublet of digitus.

Pronunciation

enPR: dĭ'jĭt, IPA^(key): /ˈdɪd͡ʒɪt/
Audio (US) (file)
Rhymes: -ɪdʒɪt

Noun

The Egyptian hieroglyph for "digit" (ḏbꜥ, D50).

digit (plural digits)

(mathematics) The whole numbers from 0 to 9 and the Arabic numerals representing them, which are combined to represent base-ten numbers.
The number 123.4 has four digits: the hundreds digit is 1, the tens digit is 2, the units digit is 3, and the tenths digit is 4.
Synonyms: place; figure(informal, usually in discussion of money)
(mathematics) A distinct symbol representing one of an arithmetic progression of numbers between 0 and the radix.
Hexadecimal numeration (Base sixteen) includes the digits 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9 but also A (=10 decimal), B, C, D, E, and F. Sixteen itself is written as the two-digit number 10.
(units of measure, astronomy) ¹⁄₁₂ the apparent diameter of the sun or moon, (chiefly) as a measure of the totality of an eclipse.
A six-digit eclipse covers half the lunar surface.
Synonym: finger(obsolete)
(historical units of measure) A unit of length notionally based upon the width of an adult human finger, standardized differently in various places and times, (especially) the English digit of ¹⁄₁₆ foot, now equivalent to about 1.9 cm.
Synonyms: finger, fingerbreadth, fingersbreadth
(units of measure, obsolete) Synonym of inch.
(anatomy) A narrow extremity of the human hand or foot: a finger, thumb, or toe.
Hyponyms: finger, thumb, toe
- 2018, Shiv Kotecha, The Switch, United States: Wonder, →ISBN, page 144:
  Jai grabbed Andrew’s shoulders with the same three digits he had used to grab the ancient doubter’s skull and spun him around.
(zoology) Similar or similar-looking structures in other animals.
- 1866, Richard Owen, Anatomy of Vertebrates
  The ruminants have the cloven foot, i.e. two hoofed digits on each foot.
(geometry, rare, obsolete) Synonym of degree: ¹⁄₃₆₀ of a circle.

Coordinate terms

(unit of length): palm, span, handspan, cubit, fathom

Derived terms

binary digit
check digit
digital
digit counter
digitize
digit number (obsolete)
digit pulse
digit sum
double-digit
double digits
index digit
significant digit
single-digit salute

Related terms

digits

Translations

finger or toe

Arabic: إِصْبَع‎ (ar) m (ʾiṣbaʿ)
Armenian: մատ (hy) (mat)
Assyrian Neo-Aramaic: ܨܸܒܥܬܵܐ‎ f (ṣibʿta)
Belarusian: па́лец m (páljec)
Bengali: আঙুল (bn) (aṅul), (finger) হাতের আঙুল (hater aṅul), (toe) পায়ের আঙুল (payer aṅul)
Bulgarian: пръст (bg) m (prǎst)
Burmese: လက်ချောင်း (my) (lakhkyaung:)
Catalan: dit (ca) m
Chinese:
Mandarin: 手指 (zh) (shǒuzhǐ) (finger), 腳趾／脚趾 (zh) (jiǎozhǐ) (toe)
Czech: prst (cs) m
Danish: finger (da) c (finger), tå (da) c (toe)
Dolgan: чөмүйэ (çömüye)
Dutch: vinger (nl) m (finger), teen (nl) m (toe)
Egyptian:

(ḏbꜥ) (finger, also toe by late period)
Finnish: sormi (fi) (finger), varvas (fi) (toe)
French: doigt (fr) m (finger), orteil (fr) m (toe)
Galician: dedo (gl) m
German: Finger (de) (finger), Zeh (de) (toe)
Greek: δάκτυλο (el) n (dáktylo)
Ancient: δάκτυλος m (dáktulos)
Hungarian: ujj (hu)
Indonesian: jari (id)
Interlingua: digito
Japanese: 指 (ja) (ゆび, yubi)
Khmer: ម្រាម (km) (mriəm)
Korean: 손가락 (ko) (son'garak) (finger), 발가락 (ko) (balgarak) (toe)
Lao: ນີ້ວ (nīu)
Latin: digitus (la) m
Macedonian: прст m (prst)
Malay: jari (ms)
Manchu: ᠰᡳᠮᡥᡠᠨ (simhun), ᡧᡠᠮᡥᡠᠨ (šumhun)
Norwegian: finger (no) (finger), tå (no) (toe)
Old Church Slavonic:
Cyrillic: прьстъ m (prĭstŭ)
Glagolitic: ⱂⱃⱐⱄⱅⱏ m (prĭstŭ)
Old East Slavic: пальць m (palĭcĭ), пьрстъ m (pĭrstŭ)
Persian: انگشت‎ (fa) (angošt)
Polish: palec (pl) m
Portuguese: dígito (pt), dedo (pt)
Romanian: deget (ro) n
Russian: па́лец (ru) m (pálec), перст (ru) m (perst) (dated or poetic)
Sanskrit: अङ्गुली (sa) f (aṅgulī), अङ्गुरि (sa) f (aṅguri)
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: пр̏ст m
Roman: pȑst (sh) m
Slovak: prst (sk) m
Slovene: prst (sl) m
Spanish: dedo (es) m
Swedish: finger (sv) (finger), tå (sv) (toe)
Thai: นิ้ว (th) (níu)
Turkish: parmak (tr)
Ukrainian: па́лець (uk) m (pálecʹ)
Vietnamese: ngón (vi)
Walloon: doet (wa) m (finger), årtea (wa) m (toe), doye f (toe)
Yakut: тарбах (tarbax)
Esperanto: fingro (eo)

numeral

Arabic: رَقْم‎ (ar) m (raqm)
Armenian: թվանշան (hy) (tʿvanšan)
Azerbaijani: rəqəm (az)
Belarusian: цы́фра f (cýfra), лі́чба f (líčba)
Bulgarian: ци́фра (bg) f (cífra)
Burmese: ဂဏန်း (my) (ga.nan:)
Catalan: xifra (ca) f
Chinese:
Mandarin: 數字／数字 (zh) (shùzì)
Czech: číslice (cs) f
Danish: ciffer (da) n
Dutch: cijfer (nl) n
Esperanto: cifero
Finnish: numero (fi)
French: chiffre (fr) m
German: Ziffer (de) f, Stelle (de)
Greek: ψηφίο (el) n (psifío), αριθμός (el) m (arithmós)
Hebrew: סִפְרָה‎ (he) f (sifrá)
Hungarian: számjegy (hu)
Icelandic: tala (is), tölustafur (is)
Ido: cifro (io)
Interlingua: digito, cifra
Irish: figiúr m
Italian: cifra (it)
Japanese: 数字 (ja) (すうじ, sūji)
Khmer: លេខ (km) (leek)
Korean: 숫자(數字) (ko) (sutja)
Kyrgyz: санарип (sanarip)
Lao: ເລກ (lēk)
Macedonian: цифра f (cifra)
Malayalam: അക്കം (ml) (akkaṃ)
Manx: bun-earroo m
Maori: mati
Middle English: digit
Norwegian:
Bokmål: siffer (no) n
Nynorsk: siffer n
Persian: رقم‎ (fa) (raqam)
Polish: cyfra (pl)
Portuguese: dígito (pt) m, algarismo (pt) m
Romanian: cifră (ro) f
Russian: ци́фра (ru) f (cífra)
Scottish Gaelic: figear m
Serbo-Croatian: znamenka (sh)
Cyrillic: цифра f
Latin: cifra (sh) f
Slovak: číslica (sk) f
Slovene: številka f, števka f
Spanish: dígito (es) m, cifra (es) f
Swedish: siffra (sv)
Tagalog: tambilang
Tajik: рақам (tg) (raqam)
Telugu: అంకె (te) (aṅke)
Thai: เลข (th) (lêek)
Turkish: rakam (tr)
Ukrainian: ци́фра (uk) f (cýfra)
Vietnamese: chữ số (vi)

unit of length

Egyptian:

(ḏbꜥ)
French: doigt (fr) m
Hungarian: ujj (hu)
Latin: digitus (la)
Middle English: fynger
Persian: انگشت‎ (fa)
Portuguese: dedo (pt) m
Spanish: dedo (es) m

Verb

digit (third-person singular simple present digits, present participle digiting, simple past and past participle digited)

(transitive) To point at or point out with the finger.

References

"digit, n. and adj.", in the Oxford English Dictionary, Oxford: Oxford University Press.

French

Etymology

From English digit, from digitus.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /di.ʒit/
Audio (file)

Noun

digit m (plural digits)

digit (number from 0-9)

Middle English

Alternative forms

digite, digitus

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin digitus.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ˈdidʒit/, /ˈdidʒitus/

Noun

digit (plural digitys)

digit (Arabic numeral)

Descendants

English: digit

References

“diǧit, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2019-02-21.

Romanian

Etymology

From English digit, from Latin digitus (“a fingerbreadth; a number”). Doublet of deget.

Noun

digit m (plural digiți)

digit

Declension

Declension of digit

	singular		plural
	indefinite articulation	definite articulation	indefinite articulation	definite articulation
nominative/accusative	(un) digit	digitul	(niște) digiți	digiții
genitive/dative	(unui) digit	digitului	(unor) digiți	digiților
vocative	digitule		digiților