different between digitgrade vs digitigrade

English

Adjective

digitgrade

1. Misspelling of digitigrade.

Noun

digitgrade

1. Misspelling of digitigrade.

English

Etymology

From French digitigrade, from Latin digitus (“finger, toe, digit”) + gradus (“step; pace”); compare New Latin digitigradus.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) enPR: d??j?t?gr?d', IPA^(key): /?d?d??t????e?d/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /?d?d??t???e?d/, /-??/
• Hyphenation: di?gi?ti?grade

Adjective

digitigrade (not comparable)

1. (zoology) Of an animal: walking on the toes, putting the weight of the body mainly on the ball of the foot, with the back of the foot, or heel, raised.
2. (zoology) Of feet or a manner of walking: of, resembling, or pertaining to that of a digitigrade animal.
3. (zoology, specifically) Belonging to the Digitigrada of the taxonomic order Carnivora.

Derived terms

• digitigradism

Translations

Noun

digitigrade (plural digitigrades)

1. (zoology, chiefly in the plural) A digitigrade animal; an animal that walks on its toes, such as a cat or a dog.

Translations

Coordinate terms

• plantigrade
• unguligrade

References

• “digitigrade, a. and n.”, in OED Online ?, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, 1989

Further reading

• digitigrade on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

French

Pronunciation

Adjective

digitigrade (plural digitigrades)

1. digitigrade

Noun

digitigrade m (plural digitigrades)

1. digitigrade

Further reading

• “digitigrade” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Italian

Adjective

digitigrade

1. feminine plural of digitigrado

Latin

Adjective

digitigrade

1. vocative masculine singular of digitigradus