digital

  1. (relational) fingers, toes; digital
  2. (Anglicism, proscribed, sometimes) digital (not analog)

Frequency

23k
Pronounced as (IPA)
/di.ʒi.tal/
Etymology

In summary

Borrowed from Latin digitālis. Doublet of dé. Use in electronics is a literal borrowing from English, through a misinterpretation of the English word digit.

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