Word of the Day: Interdigitate

Tuesday, October 8, 2024

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verb

1. (Of two or more things) Interlock like the fingers of two clasped hands.

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"The contractors you recommended did a great job interdigitating the old hardwood flooring with the new."

"The chair was finely woven with interdigitating lines of colored cane."

"When the safe's lock is engaged, the protective steel bands interdigitate and make it impossible to open."

Latin, mid-19th century

"Interdigitate" is a 19th-century merger of Latin pieces. The prefix "inter-" (meaning "between") joins "digitus" (meaning "finger or toe") to evoke the image of fingers meshed together in sequence. Most people have a personal preference toward how they interdigitate (in the literal sense of interlocking their fingers). ...