digitate

The adjective is first attested in 1661, the verb in 1657; the adjective was borrowed from Latin digitātus (see -ate (adjective-forming suffix)), the verb from digitātus, perfect passive participle of digitō (see -ate (verb-forming suffix)).

• IPA^(key): /ˈdɪdʒɪtət/ (adjective)

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• IPA^(key): /ˈdɪdʒɪteɪt/ (verb)

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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.

• palmate

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

1. (obsolete) To point out as with one's finger, indicate.
   • 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.

digitate

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

digitate f pl

1. feminine plural of digitato

digitāte

1. vocative masculine singular of digitātus

digitāte

1. second-person plural present active imperative of digitō

digitate

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