digitate

English

Etymology

From Latin digitātus for the adjective and digitāre for the verb.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈdɪdʒɪtət/ (adjective)
• IPA^(key): /ˈdɪdʒɪteɪt/ (verb)

Digitate leaf form

Adjective

digitate (not comparable)

1. Having digits, fingers or things shaped like fingers; fingerlike
2. (botany, anatomy) Having parts that spread out from a common point in a finger-like manner.

Derived terms

• subdigitate

Translations

having or resembling fingers or being fingerlike

• Arabic: إِصْبَعِيّ (ʔiṣbaʕiyy)
• Finnish: sormellinen (fi) (having fingers); sormimainen (fingerlike)
• German: fingerförmig

botany: having leaves divided in finger-like parts

• Arabic: إِصْبَعِيّ (ʔiṣbaʕiyy)
• Finnish: sormilehdykkäinen
• German: fingerförmig

See also

• palmate

Verb

digitate (third-person singular simple present digitates, present participle digitating, simple past and past participle digitated)

1. To point out as with the finger.
   • 1658, John Robinson, Eudoxa:

     The supine resting on Water onely by retention of Air […] doth digitate a reason.

2. (botany, anatomy) To spread out from a common point in a finger-like manner.
   • 1857 December 23, John Cleland, “On the Skeleton, Muscles, and Viscera of Malapterurus Beninensis”, in Proceedings of the Royal Physical Society of Edinburgh, volume 1, Edinburgh, published 1858, page 393:

     But what is most worthy of notice is, that the greater number of muscular fibres arising from the coracoid and radio-ulnar bones form a pectoral muscle, superficial to the other fibres of the great lateral, and digitating with them along the side of the fish opposite the extremities of the fifth, sixth, seventh, and eighth ribs.

Derived terms

• bidigitate
• digitately
• digitation
• interdigitate
• multidigitate
• paridigitate
• polydigitate
• quadridigitate
• quinquedigitate
• sexdigitate
• tridigitate
• unidigitate

 

Translations

to point out

• Arabic: صَبَعَ (ṣabaʕa)
• Finnish: osoittaa sormella

to spread in a finger-like manner.

• Arabic: تَصَبَّعَ (taṣabbaʕa)
• German: fingerförmig emporragen

Italian

Etymology 1

Verb

digitate

1. inflection of digitare:
   1. second-person plural present indicative
   2. second-person plural imperative

Etymology 2

Participle

digitate f pl

1. feminine plural of digitato

Latin

Adjective

digitāte

1. vocative masculine singular of digitātus

Verb

digitāte

1. second-person plural present active imperative of digitō

Spanish

Verb

digitate

1. second-person singular voseo imperative of digitar combined with te