different between date vs computus

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)

1. 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.

2. 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)

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.

   • 1681, John Dryden, The Spanish Friar

     And bonds without a date, they say, are void.

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.

   • 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.

3. A point in time.

4. (rare) Assigned end; conclusion.
5. (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.

6. 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,"

7. One's companion for social activities or occasions.

9. 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)

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.
   • 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.

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

1. Alternative form of dzatse

Danish

Etymology

From English date.

Noun

date c (singular definite daten, plural indefinite dates)

1. 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)

1. 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)

1. 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)

1. 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)

1. (slang, anglicism) date (romantic meeting)
2. (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

1. past participle of dar

Italian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?da.te/

Noun

date f

1. plural of data

Verb

date

1. second-person plural present of dare
2. second-person plural imperative of dare

Participle

date

1. feminine plural past participle of dare

Latin

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /?da.te/, [?d?ät??]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /?da.te/, [?d???t??]

Verb

date

1. second-person plural present active imperative of d?

Participle

date

1. 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)

1. date (point in time)
2. date (fruit)

Descendants

• ? English: date
• French: date

Portuguese

Verb

date

1. first-person singular (eu) present subjunctive of datar
2. third-person singular (ele and ela, also used with você and others) present subjunctive of datar
3. third-person singular (você) affirmative imperative of datar
4. third-person singular (você) negative imperative of datar

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?date/, [?d?a.t?e]

Verb

date

1. Compound of the informal second-person singular (tú) affirmative imperative form of dar, da and the pronoun te.

English

Alternative forms

• compotus
• conpotus

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin computus. Doublet of conto.

Noun

computus (countable and uncountable, plural computi)

1. The calculation of the date of Easter in the Christian calendar.
   • 2008, Ian F. McNeely, Lisa Wolverton, Reinventing Knowledge: From Alexandria to the Internet, page 68,

     An elaborate bundle of techniques called computus therefore developed around Easter calculations. Computus formed the centerpiece of “scientific” education in the monasteries.

   • 2011, Elisheva Carlbach, Palaces of Time, page 11,

     Bede's work, which remained in active use for half a millennium, stood at the very center of the university curriculum, because the mastery of computus included many different essential subjects such as astronomy, mathematics, geography, theology, and law; its applications, too, included medicine and agriculture.

   • 2011, C. Philipp E. Nothaft, Dating the Passion: The Life of Jesus and the Emergence of Scientific Chronology (200-1600), page 103,

     The technical problems faced by Western computists when it came to dating the day of Christ's Passion and the year of the world's creation were so persistent and perplexing that only a radical solution could restore the lost coherence of computus and chronography.

2. (historical) A book of tables for calculating dates of astronomical events and moveable feasts.
   • 1987, Bruce Eastwood, 5: Plinian astronomical diagrams in the early Middle Ages, Edward Grant, John Emery Murdoch, Mathematics and Its Applications to Science and Natural Philosophy in the Middle Ages, page 149,

     This computus also contains only one completed Plinian diagram, that for the planetary harmonic intervals.

   • 2007, László Sándor Chardonnens, Anglo-Saxon Prognostics, 900-1100: Study and Texts, page 25,

     Prognostics have thus been discovered in computi, in volumes on science or medicine, and in miscellanies which present a host of different text genres.

Related terms

• compute
• computist

See also

• almanac

Latin

Alternative forms

• compotus
• conpotus

Etymology

From comput?.

Noun

computus m (genitive comput?); second declension

1. (Late Latin) computation, calculation
2. (Late Latin) bank account

Declension

Second-declension noun.

Descendants

References

• computus in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• computus in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• computus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette