digitus – Latin noun declension

Noun: digitus
Hyphenation:

Gender: Masculine Declension: Second

Nominative

Singular	digitus
Plural	digitī

Genitive

Singular	digitī
Plural	digitōrum; digitum

Dative

Singular	digitō
Plural	digitīs

Accusative

Singular	digitum
Plural	digitōs

Ablative

Singular	digitō
Plural	digitīs

Vocative

Singular	digite
Plural	digitī

Sample Sentences

Nouns inflected like digitus

digitus, agnus, nūmus, tritavus, servulus, abavus, atavus, nummus, proavus, avus,

Etymology

1. Traditionally derived from Proto-Italic *digitos, from Proto-Indo-European *deyǵ- (“to show, point out, pronounce solemnly”), variant of the root *deyḱ- that also gave Latin dīcō (“to say, speak talk”) and English toe; fingers were thus "pointers" or "indicators". De Vaan, however, is skeptical, as no other term exhibits a comparable change from *-ḱ- to a *-ǵ-. The "number" sense comes from the fact that fingers were used for counting up to ten.
2. Indo-European cognates include Sanskrit दिशति (diśáti, “to show, point out”), Ancient Greek δείκνῡμῐ (deíknūmĭ, “to show”), δῐ́κη (dĭ́kē, “manner, custom”), Old English tǣċan (“to show; to point out”, English teach) and tācn (“sign; token”, English token); compare the similar semantic shift in English teacher (“forefinger, index finger”). The relation to Ancient Greek δᾰ́κτῠλος (dắktŭlos, “finger”) is unclear, particularly as the latter term's phonetics suggest a substrate origin. See: English Nouns 'teach', Old English Nouns 'tǣċan', English Nouns 'token', English Nouns 'teacher'.

Verbs referencing "digitus"

English Nouns dedo, Galician Nouns dedo, Old Portuguese Nouns dedo, Portuguese Nouns dedo, Spanish Nouns dedo, English Nouns digitus, Italian Nouns dito, Catalan Nouns dit, English Nouns digitigrade, Norwegian Nynorsk Nouns tå, French Nouns doigt, Romanian Nouns deget, Asturian Nouns deu, Spanish Nouns dígito, Ancient Greek Nouns δάκτυλος, English Nouns dital, English Nouns digit, Middle English Nouns digit, Romanian Nouns digit, Italian Nouns deto.