digitare

digitare [CL digitatus = having toes] , a to finger, handle. b to ‘finger’, point a finger at. c (?) to reckon, count (on fingers). a consilium tractare cave, nummos digitare,/ dum resides cenans D. Bec. 1410; Ib. 1038 (v. addigitare); sic honor ex onere non est; nam fulget honore / †corpore [? l. corpus], set corpus non digitabit onus Gower VC III 1004.  b conjunctis digitis genibus digitos reprimendo / non sedeas fatue, ne pro fatuo digiteris D. Bec. 1216; to finger, ~are CathA.  c sed Pharios digitare dies didicere, putantes / pravum temporibus omen inesse bonis Garl. Tri. Eccl. 88 (cf. (v. dies 6d)).