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English

Alternative forms

• D (electronics)

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin data, nominative plural of datum (“that is given”), neuter past participle of d? (“I give”). Doublet of date.

Pronunciation

• (UK, Ireland, US)
  • enPR: d?'t?, IPA^(key): /?de?t?/
  • Homophone: dater (in non-rhotic dialects)
  • Rhymes: -e?t?
• (US, Canada, Ireland)
  • enPR: d?'t?, IPA^(key): /?dæt?/, [?dæ??]
  • Rhymes: -æt?
• (General Australian, General New Zealand, General South African, UK formal)
  • enPR: dä't?, IPA^(key): /?d??t?/
  • Homophone: darter (in non-rhotic dialects)
  • Rhymes: -??t?

Noun 1

data

1. plural of datum

Noun 2

data (uncountable)

1. (collectively) Information, especially in a scientific or computational context, or with the implication that it is organized.

   The raw information was processed and placed into a database so the data could be accessed more quickly.
2. (collectively) Recorded observations that are usually presented in a structured format.
3. (computing) A representation of facts or ideas in a formalized manner capable of being communicated or manipulated by some process.
4. (mobile telephony) Digital information such as images or web pages transmitted using the cellular telephone network rather than wifi.

Usage notes

• This word is more often used as an uncountable noun with a singular verb than as a plural noun with singular datum. The latter is almost entirely restricted to formal contexts.
• In geodetic contexts, the word is used exclusively as an uncountable with the singular datum having the plural datums to replace it.
• The definition of data in the computing context is from an international standard vocabulary and is meant to distinguish data from information. However, this distinction is largely ignored by the computing profession.[1]

Hyponyms

• big data
• metadata
• primary data
• raw data

Derived terms

Related terms

Translations

See also

• anecdote

References

• “data” in Dictionary.com Unabridged, Dictionary.com, LLC, 1995–present. (The American Heritage Dictionary's usage note on 'data')
• John Quiggin: Data is not the plural of datum
• johnaugust.com: ‘Data’ is singular

Anagrams

• ADAT, TADA, a tad, adat, ta-da, tada

Afar

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /d??t?/

Verb

datá

1. (adjective) be black

   Antonym: qadó

References

• Marie-Claude Simeone-Senelle; Mohamed Hassan Kamil (Aug 2013) , “Gender, Number and Agreement in Afar (Cushitic language)”, in 43th Colloquium on African Languages and Linguistics?^[2], Leiden: Leiden University, page 2
• Mohamed Hassan Kamil (2015) L’afar: description grammaticale d’une langue couchitique (Djibouti, Erythrée et Ethiopie)?^[3], Paris: Université Sorbonne Paris Cité (doctoral thesis), page 307

Catalan

Etymology

Borrowed from Late Latin data < Latin datus.

Pronunciation

• (Balearic, Central) IPA^(key): /?da.t?/
• (Valencian) IPA^(key): /?da.ta/

Noun

data f (plural dates)

1. date (specific moment in time)

Further reading

• “data” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.
• “data” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “data” in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana.
• “data” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.

Cebuano

Pronunciation

• Hyphenation: da?ta

Noun

data

1. installment, partial payment

Czech

Pronunciation

Noun

data n pl

1. data

Declension

Related terms

• databáze f
• datový m

Danish

Noun

data n (singular definite dataet, plural indefinite data)

1. datum, data
2. curriculum vitae, résumé

Inflection

Dutch

Pronunciation

Noun

data

1. Plural form of datum

   Synonym: datums

2. (uncountable) data, information

   Synonym: gegevens

Usage notes

Though some speakers use data "information" as a new singular rather than as the plural of datum (“data point”), this is generally prescribed against.[4][5][6] This is analogous to media in Dutch, which some speakers treat as a new singular rather than as a plural of medium.

Finnish

(index d)

Etymology

From Latin data.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?d?t?/, [?d?t??]
• Rhymes: -?t?
• Syllabification: da?ta

Noun

data

1. data

Declension

Synonyms

• anne (“datum”) (rare)

Derived terms

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /da.ta/

Verb

data

1. third-person singular past historic of dater

Indonesian

Etymology

From Dutch data, from Latin data.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?data]
• Hyphenation: da?ta

Noun

data

1. datum,
   1. a fact known from direct observation.
   2. a premise from which conclusions are drawn.
2. data,
   1. information, especially in a scientific or computational context, or with the implication that it is organized.
   2. recorded observations that are usually presented in a structured format.
   3. (computing) a representation of facts or ideas in a formalized manner capable of being communicated or manipulated by some process.

Derived terms

Related terms

Further reading

• “data” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia (KBBI) Daring, Jakarta: Badan Pengembangan dan Pembinaan Bahasa, Kementerian Pendidikan dan Kebudayaan Republik Indonesia, 2016.

Italian

Etymology 1

From Late Latin data, from Latin datus.

Noun

data f (plural date)

1. date

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the main entry.

Verb

data

1. third-person singular present of datare
2. second-person singular imperative of datare

Etymology 3

See the etymology of the main entry.

Verb

data

1. feminine singular past participle of dare

Related terms

See also

• dato / dati

Ladin

Noun

data f (plural dates)

1. date (day number of the month)

Latin

Pronunciation

• data: (Classical) IPA^(key): /?da.ta/, [?d?ät?ä]
• data: (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /?da.ta/, [?d???t??]
• dat?: (Classical) IPA^(key): /?da.ta?/, [?d?ät?ä?]
• dat?: (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /?da.ta/, [?d???t??]

Participle 1

data

1. nominative/vocative feminine singular of datus
2. nominative/accusative/vocative neuter plural of datus

Participle 2

dat?

1. ablative feminine singular of datus

References

• data in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)

Middle Irish

Noun

data m

1. sire, father
2. foster father, godfather, guardian

   Synonym: aite

3. sir

Inflection

This noun needs an inflection-table template.

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From Latin data, plural of datum (“gift, present”), neuter past participle of d? (“I give, offer”), from Proto-Italic *did? (“give”), from Proto-Indo-European *dédeh?ti (“to be giving”), from *deh?- (“give”).

Noun

data m or n (definite singular dataen or dataet, indefinite plural data, definite plural dataene)

1. data
2. short form of datateknologi

Derived terms

References

• “data” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From Latin data, plural of datum.

Noun

data n (definite singular dataet, indefinite plural data, definite plural dataa)

1. data
2. short form of datateknologi

Derived terms

References

• “data” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Polish

Etymology

From Medieval Latin data.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?da.ta/

Noun

data f

1. date (the point of time at which event takes place; a specific day)

Declension

Further reading

• data in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Portuguese

Pronunciation

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /?da.t?/
• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /?da.t?/, [?d?ä.t??]
• Hyphenation: da?ta

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Late Latin data, from Latin datus (“given”). Doublet of dada.

Noun

data f (plural datas)

1. date (point of time at which a transaction or event takes place)

2. (informal) a large quantity

3. (informal) a lot, a plot of land

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the main entry.

Verb

data

1. third-person singular (ele and ela, also used with você and others) present indicative of datar
2. second-person singular (tu, sometimes used with você) affirmative imperative of datar

Romanian

Etymology

From French dater.

Verb

a data (third-person singular present dateaz?, past participle datat) 1st conj.

1. to date

Conjugation

Rwanda-Rundi

Etymology

From Proto-Bantu *tààtá.

Noun

d?tá 1a (plural b?dâtá 2a)

1. my father
2. my paternal uncle

See also

• so (“your father”)
• se (“his/her father”)
• mama (“my mother”)

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?data/, [?d?a.t?a]

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Late Latin data, from Latin datus.

Noun

data f (plural datas)

1. date (point of time at which a transaction or event takes place)

   Synonym: (more common) fecha

Derived terms

Related terms

• dato

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the main entry.

Verb

data

1. Informal second-person singular (tú) affirmative imperative form of datar.
2. Formal second-person singular (usted) present indicative form of datar.
3. Third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted^?) present indicative form of datar.

Further reading

• “data” in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014.

Swahili

Etymology 1

From English data.

Noun

data (n class, plural data)

1. data (information, especially in a scientific or computational context)

Etymology 2

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Verb

-data (infinitive kudata)

1. to crackle
2. to miss a desired outcome
3. to adhere to something

Conjugation

Swedish

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin data, from the plural of datum (“that which is given, information, facts at hand, a date in the calendar”).

The sense ”computer” is a clipping of datamaskin.

Noun

data c

1. (uncountable) information, especially encoded information that can be processed by computers
2. (colloquial, proscribed) Alternative form of dator (“computer”)

Usage notes

• The first definition is rarely inflected, but most often used in its basic form. In the definite form, both neuter (datat) and common gender (datan) forms are used. For the compound indata, Google yields 440,000 hits, but only 2110 for indatan and 1200 for indatat. The Latin singular datum is not used in this sense, because it is already used for ”date (in the calendar)”.
• Swedish lacked a good and short word for computer until dator was proposed in 1967. The colloquial data was used in the 1960s and is still used colloquially today, but is usually proscribed. The form dator is also the plural of data, and the plural definite forms datorerna/datorna are very similar.

Declension

Derived terms

• trafikdata

References

• data in Svensk ordbok (SO)
• “Hur kan man använda data och datan? [How are data and datan used?]”, in Frågelådan?^[7], Swedish Language Council, accessed 28 December 2019

English

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /d?m????æf?ks/

Noun

demographics pl (plural only)

1. The characteristics of human populations for purposes of social studies.

See also

• demography
• demographic
• demographer

Further reading

• demography on Wikipedia.Wikipedia