## Etymology
A 20th-century coinage from digit ('numeral, finger') plus the suffix -ize; digit is from Latin digitus ('finger, toe'), the numeral sense arising from counting on the fingers.

## AI Etymology
Digitize is a 20th-century coinage from digit ('numeral, finger') plus the suffix -ize; digit is from Latin digitus ('finger, toe'), the numeral sense arising from counting on the fingers. The immediate etymological form is Latin digitus. The suffix -ize forms a verb meaning to make, render, or treat in the manner of the base, so the English form is shaped by recognizable word formation as well as by its inherited or borrowed base. In present use as a verb, it means "to convert information into digital form", keeping the historical formation close to the word's ordinary semantic work. Related words include digital, digit, and digitally; derived forms include digitizer, digitized, and digitization.

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