Speakur

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digitigrade

/ˈdɪd͡ʒətəɡɹeɪd/

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: 1.30 in modern English

Syllables
di-gi-ti-grade
IPA
/ˈdɪd͡ʒətəɡɹeɪd/
15
Scrabble Score
11
Letters
4
Syllables
7
Unique Chars

Meaning

adj

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.

adj

Of feet or a manner of walking: of, resembling, or pertaining to that of a digitigrade animal.

adj

Belonging to the Digitigrada of the taxonomic order Carnivora.

Obsolete

noun

A digitigrade animal; an animal that walks on its toes, such as a cat or a dog.

Etymology

From French digitigrade, from Latin digitus (“finger, toe, digit”) + -grade (“gait”); compare New Latin digitigradus.

Origin

Word Breakdown

Regional Pronunciation

  • American English: /ˈdɪd͡ʒətəɡɹeɪd/
  • British English: /ˈdɪd͡ʒɪtɪˌɡɹeɪd/

Usage

Inflected Forms

digitigrades (plural)

Derived Forms

digitigradism digitigrady

Frequently Paired Words

plantigrade unguligrade

Synonyms

digitigrade mammal

Questions

How do you pronounce digitigrade?
The recorded pronunciation is /ˈdɪd͡ʒətəɡɹeɪd/.
What does digitigrade mean?
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.
Where does digitigrade come from?
It is traced to French.

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