Appreciate Italian's figure (5)

I believe the answer is:

digit

'figure' is the definition.
(thesaurus)

'appreciate italian's' is the wordplay.
'appreciate' becomes 'dig' (I've seen this before).
'italian' becomes 'it'.
'dig'+'it'='DIGIT'

(Other definitions for digit that I've seen before include "Finger; numeral" , "one of several at hand" , "one's given?" , "Single number" , "Single numeral" .)

I've seen this clue in The Independent.

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