date

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English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /deɪt/
• Rhymes: -eɪt

Etymology 1

From Middle English date, from Old French date, datil, datille, from Latin dactylus, from Ancient Greek δάκτυλος (dáktulos, “finger”) (from the resemblance of the date to a human finger), probably a folk-etymological alteration of a word from a Semitic source such as Arabic دَقَل (daqal, “variety of date palm”) or Hebrew דֶּקֶל (deqel, “date palm”).

Noun

date (plural dates)

2. The fruit of the date palm, Phoenix dactylifera, somewhat in the shape of an olive, containing a soft, sweet pulp and enclosing a hard kernel.

4. The date palm.

Hypernyms

• fruit

Derived terms

Translations

Etymology 2

From Middle English date, from Old French date, from Late Latin data, from Latin datus (“given”), past participle of dare (“to give”); from Proto-Indo-European *deh₃- (“to give”). Doublet of data.

Noun

date (plural dates)

1. The addition to a writing, inscription, coin, etc., which specifies the time (especially the day, month, and year) when the writing or inscription was given, executed, or made.

   US date : 05/24/08 = Tuesday, May 24th, 2008. UK date : 24/05/08 = Tuesday 24th May 2008.
2. A specific day in time at which a transaction or event takes place, or is appointed to take place; a given point of time.

   The start date for the festival is September 2.

3. A point in time.

4. (rare) An assigned end; a conclusion.
5. (obsolete) A given or assigned length of life; duration.
   • 1611-15, George Chapman (translator), Homer (author), The Odysseys of Homer, Volume 1, Book IV,^[1] lines 282–5,

     As now Saturnius, through his life's whole date,

     Hath Nestor's bliss raised to as steep a state,

     Both in his age to keep in peace his house,

     And to have children wise and valorous.

6. A pre-arranged meeting.
7. One's companion for social activities or occasions, especially a romantic partner.

9. A romantic meeting or outing with a lover or potential lover, or the person so met.

Hypernyms

• time

Hyponyms

Derived terms

Descendants

• → German: Date
• → Hebrew: דייט (deyt)
• → Hindi: डेट (ḍeṭ)
• → Japanese: デート (dēto)
• → Kashubian: dejta (Canada, United States)
• → Korean: 데이트 (deiteu)

Translations

Verb

date (third-person singular simple present dates, present participle dating, simple past and past participle dated)

1. (transitive) To note the time or place of writing or executing; to express in an instrument the time of its execution.
2. (transitive) To note or fix the time of (an event); to give the date of.
3. (transitive) To determine the age of something.

4. (transitive) To take (someone) on a date, or a series of dates.
5. (transitive, by extension) To have a steady relationship with; to be romantically involved with.

   Synonyms: go out, see; see also Thesaurus:date
6. (reciprocal, by extension) To have a steady relationship with each other; to be romantically involved with each other.

   Synonyms: go out, see; see also Thesaurus:date

7. (transitive, intransitive) To make or become old, especially in such a way as to fall out of fashion, become less appealing or attractive, etc.

   Synonyms: age, elden, obsolesce; see also Thesaurus:to age
8. (intransitive, with from) To have beginning; to begin; to be dated or reckoned.

Usage notes

• To note the time of writing one may say dated at or from a place.

Derived terms

Translations

See also

• Sabbath
• calendar

Anagrams

• Daet, AEDT, TAED, Teda, tea'd, TA'ed, TAed, -ated, ated, tead, EDTA

Aromanian

Numeral

date

1. Alternative form of dzatse

Danish

Etymology

From English date.

Pronunciation 1

• IPA^(key): /deɪt/
• Rhymes: -eɪt

Noun

date c (singular definite daten, plural indefinite dates)

1. a date (meeting with a lover or potential lover)

   Synonyms: rendezvous, stævnemøde

Pronunciation 2

• IPA^(key): /deɪte/
• Rhymes: -eɪte

Verb

date (imperative date, infinitive at date, present tense dater, past tense datede, perfect tense har datet)

1. to date (someone)

References

• “date” in Den Danske Ordbog
• “date,2” in Den Danske Ordbog

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from English date.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /deːt/
• Hyphenation: date
• Rhymes: -eːt

Noun

date m (plural dates)

1. a date (romantic outing)

Derived terms

• blind date

Related terms

• daten

French

Etymology 1

Inherited from Old French date, a borrowing from Late Latin data, from the feminine of Latin datus.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /dat/

Noun

date f (plural dates)

1. date (point in time)

Derived terms

Further reading

• “date”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Etymology 2

Borrowed from English date.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /dɛjt/

Noun

date f (plural dates)

1. (slang, anglicism) date (romantic meeting)

Noun

date m (plural dates)

1. (slang, anglicism) date (person you go on a romantic meeting with)

Further reading

• https://www.btb.termiumplus.gc.ca/tpv2guides/guides/clefsfp/index-fra.html?lang=fra&lettr=indx_catlog_d&page=9iwGrR_cgy6U.html

Interlingua

Participle

date

1. past participle of dar

Italian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈda.te/
• Rhymes: -ate
• Hyphenation: dà‧te

Etymology 1

Noun

date f

1. plural of data

Etymology 2

Verb

date

1. inflection of dare:
   1. second-person plural present indicative
   2. second-person plural imperative

Etymology 3

Participle

date f pl

1. feminine plural of dato

Anagrams

• teda

Latin

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈda.te/, [ˈd̪ät̪ɛ]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈda.te/, [ˈd̪äːt̪e]

Verb

date

1. second-person plural present active imperative of dō

Participle

date

1. vocative masculine singular of datus

Norwegian Bokmål

Alternative forms

• deit (noun)
• deite (verb)

Etymology

Borrowed from English date. Doublet of dato and datum.

Pronunciation

• (noun): IPA^(key): /dæɪ̯t/, /dɛɪ̯t/
• (verb): IPA^(key): /²dæɪ̯.tə/, /²dɛɪ̯.tə/

Noun

date m (definite singular daten, indefinite plural dater, definite plural datene)

1. a (romantic) date (pre-arranged meeting between two people)

   Synonyms: (romantic meeting) stevnemøte, (meeting) møte

2. a person in relation to the other person on a date

Verb

date (present tense dater, past tense data or datet, past participle data or datet, imperative date)

1. (transitive, reciprocal) to date

References

• “date” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
• “date” in Det Norske Akademis ordbok (NAOB).

Norwegian Nynorsk

Alternative forms

• deit (noun)
• data, deita, deite (verb)

Etymology

Borrowed from English date. Doublet of dato and datum.

Pronunciation

• (noun): IPA^(key): /dæɪ̯t/, /dɛɪ̯t/
• (verb): IPA^(key): /²dæɪ̯.tə/, /²dɛɪ̯.tə/

Noun

date m (definite singular daten, indefinite plural datar, definite plural datane)

1. a (romantic) date (pre-arranged meeting between two people)

   Synonyms: (romantic meeting) stemnemøte, (meeting) møte

2. a person in relation to the other person on a date

Verb

date (present tense datar, past tense data, past participle data, imperative date)

1. (transitive, reciprocal) to date

References

• “date” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Old French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈda.tə/

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Late Latin data, from the feminine of Latin datus (“given”).

Noun

date oblique singular, f (oblique plural dates, nominative singular date, nominative plural dates)

1. date (point in time)

Descendants

• → English: date
• French: date

Etymology 2

Borrowed from Old Provençal datil, from Latin dactylus.

Noun

date oblique singular, f (oblique plural dates, nominative singular date, nominative plural dates)

1. date (fruit)

Descendants

• → English: date
• French: datte

Portuguese

Etymology 1

Unadapted borrowing from English date.

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -ejt͡ʃi
• Homophone: deite

Noun

date m (plural dates)

1. (Brazil, informal) date (romantic meeting)

   Synonym: encontro

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -ati
• Hyphenation: da‧te

Verb

date

1. inflection of datar:
   1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
   2. third-person singular imperative

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈdate/ [ˈd̪a.t̪e]
• Rhymes: -ate
• Syllabification: da‧te

Verb

date

1. inflection of dar:
   1. second-person singular imperative combined with te
   2. second-person singular voseo imperative combined with te
2. inflection of datar:
   1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
   2. third-person singular imperative

Swedish

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English date

Noun

date c

1. Alternative form of dejt (“romantic date”)

Declension

References

• date in Svensk ordbok (SO)