What is the root and the root meaning of digest?

Answer 1

To distribute or arrange methodically; to work over and classify; to reduce to portions for ready use or application; as, to digest the laws, etc., To separate (the food) in its passage through the alimentary canal into the nutritive and nonnutritive elements; to prepare, by the action of the digestive juices, for conversion into blood; to convert into chyme., To think over and arrange methodically in the mind; to reduce to a plan or method; to receive in the mind and consider carefully; to get an understanding of; to comprehend., To appropriate for strengthening and comfort., Hence: To bear comfortably or patiently; to be reconciled to; to brook., To soften by heat and moisture; to expose to a gentle heat in a boiler or matrass, as a preparation for chemical operations., To dispose to suppurate, or generate healthy pus, as an ulcer or wound., To ripen; to mature., To quiet or abate, as anger or grief., To undergo digestion; as, food digests well or ill., To suppurate; to generate pus, as an ulcer., That which is digested; especially, that which is worked over, classified, and arranged under proper heads or titles, A compilation of statutes or decisions analytically arranged. The term is applied in a general sense to the Pandects of Justinian (see Pandect), but is also specially given by authors to compilations of laws on particular topics; a summary of laws; as, Comyn's Digest; the United States Digest.

Answer 2

The root of "digest" comes from the Latin word "digestus," which means "to separate, dissolve or arrange." It refers to the process of breaking down food in the body for absorption and assimilation of nutrients.