different between date vs duty

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

Etymology

From Middle English duete, from Middle English dewe) + Middle English -te, (borrowed from Old French -te from Latin -t?tem, accusative masculine singular of -t?s). Akin to due + -ty (Alternative form of -ity).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?dju?ti/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /du?ti/
• Rhymes: -u?ti
• Homophone: doody (for some speakers)

Noun

duty (countable and uncountable, plural duties)

1. That which one is morally or legally obligated to do.
   • 1805, 21 October, Horatio Nelson

     England expects that every man will do his duty.

   • Captain Edward Carlisle […] felt a curious sensation of helplessness seize upon him as he met her steady gaze, […]; he could not tell what this prisoner might do. He cursed the fate which had assigned such a duty, cursed especially that fate which forced a gallant soldier to meet so superb a woman as this under handicap so hard.
2. The state of being at work and responsible for or doing a particular task.

3. A tax placed on imports or exports; a tariff.

   customs duty; excise duty

4. (obsolete) One's due, something one is owed; a debt or fee.
   • 1526, William Tyndale, trans. Bible, Matthew XX:

     Take that which is thy duty, and goo thy waye.

5. (obsolete) Respect; reverence; regard; act of respect; homage.
6. The efficiency of an engine, especially a steam pumping engine, as measured by work done by a certain quantity of fuel; usually, the number of pounds of water lifted one foot by one bushel of coal (94 lbs. old standard), or by 1 cwt. (112 lbs., England, or 100 lbs., United States).

Usage notes

• Adjectives often used with "duty": public, private, moral, legal, social, double, civic, contractual, political, judicial, etc.

Synonyms

• (that which one is obligated to do): obligation

Antonyms

• duty-free (taxes)
• (that which one is obligated to do): right

Derived terms

Related terms

• due

Translations

Further reading

• duty in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• duty in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
• duty at OneLook Dictionary Search

Lower Sorbian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?dut?]

Participle

duty

1. past passive participle of du?

Declension