dígito

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See also: digito, digitó, and digitò

Portuguese

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin digitus. Doublet of dedo, which was inherited.

Pronunciation

(Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈd͡ʒi.ʒi.tu/
- (Southern Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈd͡ʒi.ʒi.to/

(Portugal) IPA^(key): /ˈdi.ʒi.tu/

Hyphenation: dí‧gi‧to

Noun

dígito m (plural dígitos)

digit

Spanish

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin digitus. Doublet of dedo, which was inherited. Cognate with Catalan dit and dígit, Portuguese dedo and dígito, and Galician dedo.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ˈdixito/
Rhymes: -ixito
Syllabification: dí‧gi‧to

Noun

dígito m (plural dígitos)

digit (numeral)

Further reading

“dígito”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10

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