“finger” in Latin

digitus (also as measure; e.g., four fingers long, broad, thick, quatuor digitos longus, latus, crassus): pollex (the thumb, also as measure). The fore-finger, digitus apollice proximus (Apul., Met., 1, p. 105, 37); index digitus (Hor., Sat., 2, 8, 26; Plin., 28, 2, 5); digitus salutaris (Suet., Oct., 80): the middle finger, digitus medius (Plin., 11, 43, 99; Quint., 11, 3, 92; Martisalis, 2, 28, 2); digitus famosus or infamis (Schol. Cruq., Hor., Sat., 2, 8, 30; Persius, 2, 33); digitus impudicus (Martisalis, 6, 70): the third finger, digitus medicus or medicinalis (Schol. Cruq., etc.; Macrobius, Sat., 7, 13); digitus minimo proximus (Gell., 10, 10, according to which passage the ring was worn on that finger of the left hand; also Macrobius, p. 260) digitus minimo vicinus (Macrobius): the little finger, digitus minimus (Hor., Sat., 1, 4, 14; Plin., 11, 43, 99; Gell., 10, 10); digitus brevissimus (Macrobius): a finger long, or of the length of a finger, longitudine digitali: a finger in width, digitalis; latitudine digitali or unius digiti: half a finger wide, semidigitalis: a or one finger thick, or of the thickness of a finger, crassitudine digitali: to be of the width of ten fingers, alicujus rei latitudo digitorum decem est: of the thickness of two fingers, crassitudine binum digitorum: to put one’s finger on a verse or a passage when one looks off the book, *versum digito premere: to put one’s finger on one’s lips, digito suadere silentium (i. e., as a sign or signal that silence is required, as Ov., Met., 9, 691): to stretch out the middle finger, digitum medium porrigere (†): to lift one’s finger (in bidding or voting), digitum tollere: to point to anything or anybody with one’s finger, digitum intendere ad aliquid or ad aliquem; digito (not digitis) monstrare aliquid or aliquem; demonstrare aliquid or aliquem; digito demonstrare aliquem conspicuumque facere (in order to direct the eyes of people on anybody, Suet., Oct., 45, extr.); digito monstratur aliquis: to count anything over, or to calculate on one’s fingers, in digitos digerere; digitis, per digitos numerare; digitis computare: to have a thing at one’s fingers’ end, in aliqua re versatum esse; aliquid cognitum habere (to be well versed in it); regnare in aliqua re (to be proficient in anything; Vid: Cic., Or., 27, 128); memoriter pronunciare, enumerare (to know by heart): to have everything, etc., nulla in re rudem esse: to see the finger of God in anything, *divinitus aliquid accidisse putare: I don’t choose to have any finger in it, hanc rem non attingam: in the shape of a finger, in formam digiti redactus (after Col., 12, 15, extr.): a small finger, digitulus (☞ digitus minimus means the little finger of the hand): finger-nail, unguis: the tip of the fingers, digitus extremus: to touch anything with the tip of one’s fingers, digitis extremis attingere: ☞ digiti primores and digitus primus, however, standjor the first joint of the finger. To make a sign to anybody with one’s finger, per digitorum gestum significare aliquid (after Ov., Trist., 5, 10, 36): to speak with one fingers, digitis loqui (ib., 2, 453); in vicem sermonis digitis uti (after Solin., 30, 13): the art of speaking with one’s fingers, digitorum signa, plur., (Quint., 11, 3, 66): digiti nostram voluntatem declarantes: to beat or keep time with one’s fingers, digitis vocem gubernare (after Petronius, 127).

tangere, tentare, both with or without digitis: tactu explorare (both for the sake of investigating): attrectare: contrectare: pertrectare, also with addition of manibus.