# digital
## English
### Etymology

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

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈdɪd͡ʒɪtl̩/
* Audio (US):(file)

### Adjective

digital (not comparable)
* Having to do with digits (fingers or toes); especially, performed with a finger.
    Coordinate terms: dactylo-, fingerlike, toelike
    digital palpation
    digital examination
* Property of representing values as discrete, often binary, numbers rather than a continuous spectrum.
    digital computer
    digital clock
** 2013 July-August, Catherine Clabby, “Focus on Everything”, in American Scientist:Not long ago, it was difficult to produce photographs of tiny creatures with every part in focus. […] A photo processing technique called focus stacking has changed that. Developed as a tool to electronically combine the sharpest bits of multiple digital images, focus stacking is a boon to biologists seeking full focus on a micron scale.
* Of or relating to computers or the Information Age.
    Coordinate term: online
    Near-synonyms: computerized, electronic, digitized, virtual
    Digital payment systems are replacing cash transactions.

#### Antonyms

* nondigital
* undigital
* (antonym(s) of “representing discrete values”): analog, analogue, continuous

#### Derived terms

* interdigitally

#### Derived terms

* analog-to-digital converter
* asymmetric digital subscriber line
* bidigital
* biodigital
* born digital
* digerati
* digilante
* digipeater
* digiscope
* digital addiction
* digital age
* digital amnesia
* digital audio
* digital audio workstation
* digital autism
* digital backlot
* digital blackface
* digital brownshirt
* digital camera
* digital cash
* digital certificate
* digital clock
* digital commons
* digital computer
* digital converter box
* digital courage
* digital currency
* digital dark age
* digital detox
* digital direct marketing
* digital distribution
* digital divide
* digital electronics
* digital exhaust
* digital footprint
* digital forensics
* digital gap
* digital gold
* digital good
* digital graffiti
* digital handcuffs
* digital hardcore
* digital health
* digital hoarding
* digital humanities
* digitalia
* digital image
* digital immigrant
* digital ink
* digitalise
* digitalism
* digital library
* digitally
* digital media
* digital medicine
* digital meter
* digital mind
* digital native
* digitalness
* digital nomad
* digital nomadism
* digital overhead
* digital pad
* digital paper
* digital pet
* digital piano
* digital poverty
* digital PR
* digital pre-distortion
* digital press
* digital remastering
* digital restrictions management
* digital rights management
* digital root
* digital rupee
* digital scarcity
* digital service provider
* digital shadow
* digital sharecropping
* digital signal
* digital signature
* digital slow motion
* digital still camera
* digital stimulation
* digital storage
* digital subscriber line
* digital target
* digital television
* digital thermometer
* digital-to-analog converter
* digital transformation
* digital twin
* digital versatile disc
* digital video
* digital video recorder
* digital wallet
* digital watch
* digital watermark
* digital weapon
* digiterati
* digitextuality
* digitize, digitalize, digitalization
* digitron
* digizine
* extradigital
* globital
* homodigital
* infradigital
* integrated services digital network
* interdigital
* lacrimoauriculodentodigital
* monodigital
* non-digital
* oculodentodigital
* oculodigital
* orofaciodigital
* pandigital
* peridigital
* personal digital assistant
* phygital
* polydigital
* post-digital
* postdigital
* predigital
* sexdigital
* subdigital
* time stretch analog-to-digital converter
* time-to-digital converter
* tradigital
* tridigital

#### Related terms

* digitalis
* digitality
* digitate
* digitigrade

#### Descendants

* → Thai: ดิจิทัล (dí-jì-tâl)
* → Persian: دیجیتال (dijitâl)

#### Translations

    The translations below need to be checked and inserted above into the appropriate translation tables. See instructions at Wiktionary:Entry layout § Translations.

### Noun

digital (countable and uncountable, plural digitals)
* (finance) A digital option.
* (uncountable) Digital equipment or technology.
    He moved to digital for the first time, using a Sony camera.
* Short for digital watch.
** 2000, Amy Glasmeier, Manufacturing Time, page 209:Initially, traditional watchmakers could not see much future in digitals.
* (informal, uncountable) Short for digital art.
    Coordinate term: traditional
* (music) Any of the keys of a piano or similar instrument.
** c.1920?, Annie Jessy Gregg Curwen, The Teacher's Guide to Mrs. Curwen's Pianoforte Method (The Child Pianist)
    Beginning with the keyboard, direct attention to the grouping of the black digitals, and show that though at the outer edge of the keyboard the white digitals look as if they were all equally close neighbours, yet, […]
* (colloquial, humorous) A finger.
** 1853, Yankee Notions, volume 2, page 137:[…] turning round as he reached the door, he placed his digitals in close proximity to his proboscis, saying—“I guess there an't anything green about this child!' and left the Professor in utter astonishment […]
** 1855, North Carolina University Magazine, volume 3, page 23:[…] with grave complacency wiggles his digitals, and turns away with a scornful smile playing upon his countenance.

## Catalan
### Etymology

Borrowed from Latin digitālis. Doublet of didal, which was inherited.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: (Central, Balearic) [di.ʒiˈtal]
* IPA: (Valencia) [di.d͡ʒiˈtal]

### Adjective

digital m or f (masculine and feminine plural digitals)
* digital

#### Derived terms

* digitalitzar
* digitalització
* digitalment

### Further reading

* “digital” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
* “digital”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2025
* “digital” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
* “digital” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

## Danish
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /diɡiˈtæˀl/

### Adjective

digital (neuter digitalt, plural and definite singular attributive digitale)
* digital (representing discrete values)
* digital (of or relating to computers or the Information Age)

#### Inflection

$^1$ When an adjective is applied predicatively to something definite, the corresponding "indefinite" form is used. $^2$ The "indefinite" superlatives may not be used attributively.

### References

* “digital” in Den Danske Ordbog

## French
### Etymology

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

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /di.ʒi.tal/
* Audio:(file)
* Homophones: digitale, digitales

### Adjective

digital (feminine digitale, masculine plural digitaux, feminine plural digitales)
* (relational) fingers, toes; digital
* (Anglicism, proscribed) digital (not analog)

#### Usage notes

* digital is occasionally used in French to describe display devices such as TV screens. Its use for other purposes is often criticised, because this use derives from English, and because digital more commonly has the first meaning above. See also numérique.

#### Derived terms

* empreinte digitale

### Further reading

* “digital”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

## German
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /diɡiˈtaːl/
* Rhymes: -aːl
* Audio (Austria):(file)
* Audio:(file)

### Adjective

digital (strong nominative masculine singular digitaler, not comparable)
* (computing) digital
* (medicine) digital

#### Declension
### Further reading

* “digital” in Duden online
* “digital” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache

## Indonesian
### Etymology

From Dutch digitaal, from Latin digitālis or Middle French digital, itself from Latin.

### Pronunciation

* (standard) IPA: [diˈɡital]
* (nonstandard) IPA: [diˈd͡ʒital]
* Hyphenation: di‧gi‧tal

### Adjective

digital
* digital
    Antonym: analog
** (surveying) property of representing values as discrete, often binary, numbers rather than a continuous spectrum
** (computing) of or relating to computers or the Information Age

#### Derived terms

* mendigitalkan

#### Related terms

* digitalisasi

### Further reading

* “digital” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016.

## Norman
### Etymology

Borrowed from Latin digitālis, from digitus (“finger, toe”) + -ālis (“-al”).

### Adjective

digital m
* (Jersey) digital

## Norwegian Bokmål
### Etymology

From Latin digitalis, via English digital.

### Adjective

digital (neuter singular digitalt, definite singular and plural digitale)
* digital

#### Derived terms

* digitalisere
* digitalkamera

### References

* “digital” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

## Norwegian Nynorsk
### Etymology

From Latin digitalis, via English digital.

### Adjective

digital (neuter singular digitalt, definite singular and plural digitale)
* digital

#### Derived terms

* digitalisere
* digitalkamera

### References

* “digital” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

## Portuguese
### Etymology

Borrowed from Latin digitālis. Doublet of dedal, which was inherited.

### Pronunciation

* (Brazil) IPA: /d͡ʒi.ʒiˈtaw/ [d͡ʒi.ʒiˈtaʊ̯]
* (Portugal) IPA: /di.ʒiˈtal/ [di.ʒiˈtaɫ]
* (Portugal) IPA: /di.ʒiˈtal/ [di.ʒiˈtaɫ]
** (Southern Portugal) IPA: /di.ʒiˈta.li/
* Rhymes: (Portugal) -al, (Brazil) -aw
* Hyphenation: di‧gi‧tal

### Adjective

digital m or f (plural digitais)
* digital; having to do with the fingers or toes
* dealing with discrete values rather than a continuous spectrum of values
* dealing with the display of numerical values

#### Derived terms

* digitalizar
* digitalização

### Noun

digital f (plural digitais)
* (Brazil) Ellipsis of impressão digital.

## Romanian
### Alternative forms

* диӂитал (digital) — post-1930s Cyrillic spelling

### Etymology

Borrowed from French digital. By surface analysis, digit +‎ -al.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /di.d͡ʒiˈtal/
* Rhymes: -al
* Hyphenation: di‧gi‧tal

### Adjective

digital m or n (feminine singular digitală, masculine plural digitali, feminine and neuter plural digitale)
* digital (having to do with fingers or toes)
* digital (dealing with discrete values rather than a continuous spectrum of values)

#### Related terms

* digitaliza

## Spanish
### Etymology

Borrowed from Latin digitālis. Doublet of dedal, which was inherited.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /dixiˈtal/ [d̪i.xiˈt̪al]
* Rhymes: -al
* Syllabification: di‧gi‧tal

### Adjective

digital m or f (masculine and feminine plural digitales)
* digital; having to do with the fingers or toes
* digital; dealing with discrete values rather than a continuous spectrum of values
* digital; dealing with the display of numerical values

#### Derived terms

* biblioteca digital
* cámara digital
* digitalización
* digitalizar
* digitalmente
* firma digital
* guerra digital
* huella digital
* prensa digital
* rastro digital
* reloj digital
* televisión digital

### Noun

digital f (plural digitales)
* foxglove (plant, flower)

### Further reading

* “digital”, 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

## Swedish
### Etymology

From Latin digitālis, via English digital.

### Adjective

digital (not comparable)
* digital; in (or using) digital (and electronic) form

#### Usage notes

* Circa 2010, the word took on a wider definition, meaning electronic, modern, or binary (having only two values); digitalisering (“digitization”) started to being used not only of signals, information and documents (e.g. digitizing books or patient's journals), but also about enterprises, as a synonym to automation, computerization (e.g. digitizing libraries and hospitals).

#### Declension

$^1$ The indefinite superlative forms are only used in the predicative. $^2$ Dated or archaic. $^3$ Only used, optionally, to refer to things whose natural gender is masculine.

#### Derived terms

* analog-digitalomvandlare
* digital-analogomvandlare
* digital-tv
* digitalbox
* digitalformat
* digitalfoto
* digitalisera
* digitalisering
* digitalkamera
* digitalklocka
* digitalradio

#### Related terms

* digitalisera
* digitalisering (“digitalization”)

### References

* digital in Svensk ordbok (SO)
* digital in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)