Digital

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late 15th century: from Latin digitalis, from digitus ‘finger, toe’.

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Borrowed from Latin digitālis, from digitus(“finger, toe”) + -alis(“-al”). Doublet of digitalis.

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digital (adj.)

mid-15c., "pertaining to numbers below ten;" 1650s, "pertaining to fingers," from Latin digitalis, from digitus "finger or toe" (see digit). The numerical sense is because numerals under 10 were counted on fingers. Meaning "using numerical digits" is from 1938, especially of computers which run on data in the form of digits (opposed to analogue) after c. 1945. In reference to recording or broadcasting, from 1960.