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English

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• enPR: d?'j?t, IPA^(key): /?d?d??t/
• Rhymes: -?d??t

Noun

digit (plural digits)

1. (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.

2. (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.

3. (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.

4. (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 (about 1.9 cm).
5. (units of measure, obsolete) Synonym of inch.
6. (anatomy) A narrow extremity of the human hand or foot: a finger, thumb, or toe.
7. (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.

8. (geometry, rare, obsolete) Synonym of degree: ¹?₃₆₀ of a circle.

Synonyms

• (numerical place): place, figure (informal, usually in discussion of money)
• (astronomical unit): finger (obsolete)
• (unit of length): finger, fingerbreadth, fingersbreadth

Hyponyms

• (extremity of the hand or foot): finger, thumb, toe

Related terms

• digits

Derived terms

• digital
• digit counter
• digitize
• digit number (obsolete)
• digit pulse

Translations

Verb

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

1. (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

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Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /di.?it/

Noun

digit m (plural digits)

1. digit (number from 0-9)

Middle English

Alternative forms

• digite, digitus

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin digitus.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?did?it/, /?did?itus/

Noun

digit (plural digitys)

1. digit (Arabic numeral)

Descendants

• English: digit

References

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

English

Etymology

From Middle English dighten, dihten, (also dyten, from whence dite), from Old English dihtan, dihtian (“to set in order; dispose; arrange; appoint; direct; compose”), from Proto-Germanic *diht?n? (“to compose; invent”), of disputed origin. Possibly from a derivative of Proto-Germanic *d?kan? (“to arrange; create; perform”), from Proto-Indo-European *d?ey?-, *d?ey??- (“to knead; shape; mold; build”), influenced by Latin dict?re; or perhaps from Latin dict?re (“to dictate”) itself. See dictate; and also parallel formations in German dichten, Dutch dichten, Swedish dikta.

Pronunciation

• (US, UK) IPA^(key): /da?t/
• (Canada) IPA^(key): [d??t]
• Rhymes: -a?t

Verb

dight (third-person singular simple present dights, present participle dighting, simple past and past participle dight or dighted)

1. (obsolete, transitive) To deal with, handle.
2. (obsolete, transitive) To have sexual intercourse with.
   • 1387-1400, Geoffrey Chaucer, The Manciple's Prologue:

     Ne telleth nevere no man in youre lyf

     How that another man hath dight his wyf;

3. (obsolete, transitive) To dispose, put (in a given state or condition).
4. (obsolete, transitive) To compose, make.
   • 14^thc., Anonymous, The Chester Mystery Plays, Noah's Flood:

     Japhet's Wife: And I will gather chippes here / To make a fyer for you in feare, / And for to dighte your dinnere / Agayne you come in.

5. (archaic, transitive, of facial features) To be formed or composed (of).
   • 1885, Richard F. Burton, The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night:

     […] nor is there found, in sea or on land, a sweeter or pleasanter of gifts than she; for she is prime in comeliness and seemlihead of face and symmetrical shape of perfect grace; her check is ruddy dight, her brow flower white, her teeth gem-bright, her eyes blackest black and whitest white, her hips of heavy weight, her waist slight and her favour exquisite.

6. (archaic, transitive) To furnish, equip.
7. (archaic, transitive) To dress, array; to adorn.
8. (archaic, transitive) To make ready, prepare.

Synonyms

• (to have sexual intercourse): bed, feague, lie with; see also Thesaurus:copulate with
• (to furnish): apparel, fit out, kit out
• (to dress, array, adorn): clothe, don, put on; see also Thesaurus:clothe

Derived terms

• dighter
• adight
• bedight
• benedight
• misdight
• maledight
• overdight

Adjective

dight

1. (obsolete) Disposed; adorned.

Adverb

dight

1. (obsolete) Finely.

   Synonym: dightly

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Etymology

From Middle English dighten, from Old English dihtan, from Proto-Germanic *diht?n?.

Verb

dight

1. adorned, dressed

References

• Jacob Poole (1867) , William Barnes, editor, A glossary, with some pieces of verse, of the old dialect of the English colony in the baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, J. Russell Smith, ?ISBN