Digitales

Digitales is the plural form of digital in Spanish and, in Portuguese, serves similarly to describe things related to digital technology, data, or signals. The term derives from Latin digitus, through digital, and in technology it is used to distinguish information or systems that encode and process data in discrete units, typically bits, from analog ones that operate on continuous signals.

In Spanish, digitales modifies plural nouns and appears in phrases such as tecnologías digitales, dispositivos digitales, imágenes digitales, and contenidos digitales. The form also appears in headlines and industry contexts to group digital products and services as a category alongside non-digital alternatives. More common everyday usage tends to pair digital with the noun, as in tecnología digital or capacidades digitales, with the plural form digitales aligning to the noun.

In Portuguese, the direct equivalent plural is digitais rather than digitales, used in phrases like tecnologias digitais, dispositivos digitais, conteúdos digitais. The concept remains the same—digital refers to information processed or transmitted in discrete units and to devices or media that rely on digital encoding.

Across languages, digitales is tied to the broader distinction between digital and analog technologies, and to broader themes such as digital literacy, the digital economy, and digital transformation. In information science, digital denotes data represented in discrete values (bits), enabling computation, storage, and communication.

Cognates exist in other Romance languages with varying forms: Italian digitale, French numérique, and English digital. The term functions within a global discourse on technology and data, even as local languages adapt the vocabulary to their own grammar and usage.