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date
English
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /de?t/
- Rhymes: -e?t
Etymology 1
From Middle English date, from Old French date, datil, datille, from Latin dactylus, from Ancient Greek ???????? (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 ?????? (daqal, “variety of date palm”) or Hebrew ??????? (deqel, “date palm”).
Noun
date (plural dates)
- 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.
- The date palm.
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 *deh?- (“to give”). Doublet of data.
Noun
date (plural dates)
- 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.
- 1681, John Dryden, The Spanish Friar
- And bonds without a date, they say, are void.
- 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.
- 1844, Mark Akenside, The Pleasures of the Imagination, Book II
- He at once, Down the long series of eventful time, So fix'd the dates of being, so disposed To every living soul of every kind The field of motion, and the hour of rest.
- A point in time.
- (rare) Assigned end; conclusion.
- (obsolete) 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.
- 1611-15, George Chapman (translator), Homer (author), The Odysseys of Homer, Volume 1, Book IV,[1] lines 282–5,
- A pre-arranged meeting.
- 1903, Guy Wetmore Carryl, The Lieutenant-Governor, Houghton, Mifflin and Company, page 121:
- "Why, Mr. Nisbet! I thought you were in New York."
- "I had a telegram this morning, calling the date off,"
- 1903, Guy Wetmore Carryl, The Lieutenant-Governor, Houghton, Mifflin and Company, page 121:
- One's companion for social activities or occasions.
- A romantic meeting or outing with a lover or potential lover, or the person so met.
Derived terms
Descendants
- ? German: Date
Translations
Verb
date (third-person singular simple present dates, present participle dating, simple past and past participle dated)
- (transitive) To note the time or place of writing or executing; to express in an instrument the time of its execution.
- (transitive) To note or fix the time of (an event); to give the date of.
- (transitive) To determine the age of something.
- (transitive) To take (someone) on a date, or a series of dates.
- (transitive, by extension) To have a steady relationship with; to be romantically involved with.
- Synonyms: go out, see; see also Thesaurus:date
- (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
- (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
- (intransitive, with from) To have beginning; to begin; to be dated or reckoned.
- 1826, Edward Everett, The Claims of Citizens of the United States of America on the Governments of Naples, Holland, and France
- The Batavian republic dates from the successes of the French arms.
- 1826, Edward Everett, The Claims of Citizens of the United States of America on the Governments of Naples, Holland, and France
Usage notes
- To note the time of writing one may say dated at or from a place.
Translations
See also
- Sabbath
- calendar
Anagrams
- AEDT, Daet, EDTA, TAED, tead
Aromanian
Numeral
date
- Alternative form of dzatse
Danish
Etymology
From English date.
Noun
date c (singular definite daten, plural indefinite dates)
- a date (meeting with a lover or potential lover)
- Synonyms: rendezvous, stævnemøde
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /de?t/
- Rhymes: -e?t
Verb
date (imperative date, infinitive at date, present tense dater, past tense datede, perfect tense har datet)
- to date (someone)
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /de?te/
- Rhymes: -e?te
References
- “date” in Den Danske Ordbog
- “date,2” in Den Danske Ordbog
Dutch
Etymology
Borrowed from English date.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /de?t/
- Hyphenation: date
- Rhymes: -e?t
Noun
date m (plural dates)
- A date (romantic outing).
Derived terms
- blind date
Related terms
- daten
French
Etymology 1
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)
- date (point in time)
Derived terms
Further reading
- “date” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
Etymology 2
Borrowed from English date.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /d?.it/
Noun
date m or f (plural dates)
- (slang, anglicism) date (romantic meeting)
- (slang, anglicism, masculine) 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
- past participle of dar
Italian
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?da.te/
Noun
date f
- plural of data
Verb
date
- second-person plural present of dare
- second-person plural imperative of dare
Participle
date
- feminine plural past participle of dare
Latin
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /?da.te/, [?d?ät??]
- (Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /?da.te/, [?d???t??]
Verb
date
- second-person plural present active imperative of d?
Participle
date
- vocative masculine singular of datus
Old French
Etymology
Borrowed from Late Latin data, from the feminine of Latin data.
Noun
date f (oblique plural dates, nominative singular date, nominative plural dates)
- date (point in time)
- date (fruit)
Descendants
- ? English: date
- French: date
Portuguese
Verb
date
- first-person singular (eu) present subjunctive of datar
- third-person singular (ele and ela, also used with você and others) present subjunctive of datar
- third-person singular (você) affirmative imperative of datar
- third-person singular (você) negative imperative of datar
Spanish
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?date/, [?d?a.t?e]
Verb
date
- Compound of the informal second-person singular (tú) affirmative imperative form of dar, da and the pronoun te.
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commitment
English
Etymology
commit +? -ment
Pronunciation
- Hyphenation: com?mit?ment
Noun
commitment (countable and uncountable, plural commitments)
- The act or an instance of committing, putting in charge, keeping, or trust, especially:
- The act of sending a legislative bill to committee for review.
- Official consignment sending a person to prison or a mental health institution.
- Promise or agreement to do something in the future, especially:
- Act of assuming a financial obligation at a future date.
- Being bound emotionally or intellectually to a course of action or to another person or persons.
- The trait of sincerity and focused purpose.
- Perpetration as in a crime or mistake.
- State of being pledged or engaged.
- The act of being locked away, such as in an institution for the mentally ill or in jail.
Synonyms
Related terms
- commit
- committal
- noncommittal
Translations
Further reading
- commitment in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
- commitment in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
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