digitigrade

English

Etymology

From French digitigrade, from Latin digitus (“finger, toe, digit”) + gradus (“step; pace”); compare New Latin digitigradus.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) enPR: dĭʹjĭtĭgrād', IPA^(key): /ˈdɪdʒɪtɪˌɡɹeɪd/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈdɪd͡ʒətəɡɹeɪd/, /-ɾə/
• Hyphenation: di‧gi‧ti‧grade

Adjective

digitigrade (not comparable)

1. (zoology) Of an animal: walking on the toes, putting the weight of the body mainly on the ball of the foot, with the back of the foot, or heel, raised.
2. (zoology) Of feet or a manner of walking: of, resembling, or pertaining to that of a digitigrade animal.
3. (zoology, specifically) Belonging to the Digitigrada of the taxonomic order Carnivora.

Derived terms

• digitigradism

Translations

walking on the toes

• Bulgarian: който ходи на пръстите си (kojto hodi na prǎstite si)
• French: digitigrade (fr)
• Hungarian: ujjonjáró (hu)
• Ido: digitigrada (io)
• Japanese: 趾行の (しこうの, shikō no)
• Romanian: digitigrad (ro)
• Swedish: digitigrad, tågående
• Welsh: bysgerddol

Noun

digitigrade (plural digitigrades)

1. (zoology, chiefly in the plural) A digitigrade animal; an animal that walks on its toes, such as a cat or a dog.

Translations

animal that walks on its toes

• Dutch: teenganger m
• Finnish: varvasastuja (fi)
• French: digitigrade (fr) m
• German: Zehengänger m
• Hungarian: ujjonjáró (hu)
• Ido: digitigrado (io)
• Japanese: 趾行動物 (しこうどうぶつ, shikō dōbutsu)
• Malay: pejalan jari, digitigrad
• Romanian: digitigrad (ro) n
• Swedish: tågångare c
• Welsh: bysgerddwr m

Coordinate terms

• plantigrade
• unguligrade

References

• “digitigrade, a. and n.”, in OED Online ⁠, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, 1989.

Further reading

• digitigrade on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

French

Pronunciation

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Adjective

digitigrade (plural digitigrades)

1. digitigrade

Noun

digitigrade m (plural digitigrades)

1. digitigrade

Further reading

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

Italian

Adjective

digitigrade

1. feminine plural of digitigrado

Latin

Adjective

digitigrade

1. vocative masculine singular of digitigradus