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data

See also: Data, data., datá, datã, dată, dàta, dáta, and dātā
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English

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Etymology

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

Pronunciation

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Noun

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data

 
A spreadsheet containing a data table and a graph.
  2. plural of datum
    Synonym: data points
    Holonym: data set
    These data show clearly that X is correlated with Y, although they tell us nothing about causation.
    • 1692, William Molyneux, Edmund Halley, Dioptrica nova‎[3], London: Benj. Tooke, page 100:
      First from these Data, let us obtain the Breadth of the Glass e z

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data (uncountable)

  2. (collectively) Information, especially in a scientific or computational context, or with the implication that it is organized.
    This data shows clearly that X is correlated with Y, although it tells us nothing about causation.
    • 1992, Rudolf M[athias] Schuster, The Hepaticae and Anthocerotae of North America: East of the Hundredth Meridian, volume V, Chicago, Ill.: Field Museum of Natural History, →ISBN, page vii:
      With fresh material, taxonomic conclusions are leavened by recognition that the material examined reflects the site it occupied; a herbarium packet gives one only a small fraction of the data desirable for sound conclusions. Herbarium material does not, indeed, allow one to extrapolate safely: what you see is what you get […]
    • 2013 June 22, “Snakes and ladders”, in The Economist, volume 407, number 8841, page 76:
      Risk is everywhere. […] For each one there is a frighteningly precise measurement of just how likely it is to jump from the shadows and get you. “The Norm Chronicles” […] aims to help data-phobes find their way through this blizzard of risks.
  3. (collectively) Recorded observations that are usually presented in a structured format.
    Near-synonyms: dataset, data set, data points, information
  5. (computing) A representation of facts or ideas in a formalized manner capable of being communicated or manipulated by some process.
    Coordinate term: information
  7. (mobile telephony) Ellipsis of mobile data: digital information transmitted using the cellular telephone network rather than Wi-Fi.
    run out of data

Usage notes

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  • The word data is more often used as an uncountable noun with a singular verb than as a plural noun with singular datum. Usage as a plural noun with a plural verb is more common in certain formal contexts (but not others): it is an unusual exception in computer science and data science but is still often maintained in the medical literature.
  • In geodetic and GD&T contexts, the word data is used exclusively in its uncountable senses, whereas the singular datum (referring to a reference point or surface) has the plural datums, not data.
  • 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 often ignored by the computing profession.[1]

Hyponyms

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Derived terms

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Descendants

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  • → Turkish: data

Translations

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  1. ^ [1]

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Anagrams

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Afar

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Etymology

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Cognate with Saho data.

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /daˈta/ [dʌˈtʌ]
  • Hyphenation: da‧ta

Verb

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datá

  1. (stative) be black

Conjugation

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    Conjugation of data (type III verb)
1st singular 2nd singular 3rd singular 1st plural 2nd plural 3rd plural
m f
present indicative I V-affirmative datiyóh datitóh datáh datáh datinóh datitoonúh datoonúh
N-affirmative datiyó datitó datá datá datinó datitón datón
negative mádatiyo mádatito mádata mádata mádatino mádatiton mádaton
present indicative II affirmative present indicative I + imperfective of én
past indicative I dátuk + perfective of én
past indicative II dátuk + perfective of sugé
present
potential 		affirmative datiyóm takkéh datitóm takkéh datám takkéh datám takkéh datinóm takkéh datitoonúm takkéh datoonúm takkéh
past
conditional 		affirmative dátuk + past conditional of sugé
-h converb -k converb -in(n)uh converb infinitive
dátih dátuk datínnuh datíyya

Antonyms

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References

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  • E. M. Parker, R. J. Hayward (1985) “data”, in An Afar-English-French dictionary (with Grammatical Notes in English), University of London, →ISBN
  • Marie-Claude Simeone-Senelle, Mohamed Hassan Kamil (2013 August) “Gender, Number and Agreement in Afar (Cushitic language)”, in 43th Colloquium on African Languages and Linguistics‎[4], Leiden: Leiden University, page 2
  • Mohamed Hassan Kamil (2015) L’afar: description grammaticale d’une langue couchitique (Djibouti, Erythrée et Ethiopie)‎[5], Paris: Université Sorbonne Paris Cité (doctoral thesis), page 307

Catalan

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Etymology 1

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Borrowed from Late Latin data < Latin datus.

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Noun

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data f (plural dates)

  1. date (specific moment in time)

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Etymology 2

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Verb

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data

  1. inflection of datar:
    1. third-person singular present indicative
    2. second-person singular imperative

Cebuano

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Pronunciation

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  • Hyphenation: da‧ta

Noun

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data

  1. installment, partial payment

Chinese

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Etymology

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From English data.

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data (Hong Kong Cantonese)

  1. data (information)
  2. data; mobile data
    1. Internet connection using mobile data, i.e. not using Wi-Fi
      呢個位收data好慢。 [Cantonese, trad.]
      呢个位收data好慢。 [Cantonese, simp.]
      ni1 go3 wai6-2 sau1 dei1 taa4 hou2 maan6. [Jyutping]
      Receiving mobile data connection is very slow at this spot.
    2. quota or limit of mobile data usage
      爆data [Cantonese]  ―  baau3 dei1 taa4 [Jyutping]  ―  to exceed the mobile data usage limit
      我今個月仲有好多data淨。 [Cantonese, trad.]
      我今个月仲有好多data净。 [Cantonese, simp.]
      ngo5 gam1 go3 jyut6 zung6 jau5 hou2 do1 dei1 taa4 zing6. [Jyutping]
      I still have a lot of [my] quota for mobile data usage left for this month.

Czech

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Pronunciation

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Noun

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data n pl (relational adjective datový)

  1. data
    Synonym: údaje

Declension

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Declension of data (pl-only hard neuter foreign)
plural
nominative data
genitive dat
dative datům
accusative data
vocative data
locative datech
instrumental daty
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Further reading

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  • “data”, in Kartotéka Novočeského lexikálního archivu (in Czech)
  • “data”, in Internetová jazyková příručka (in Czech), 2008–2025

Danish

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Noun

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data n (singular definite dataet, plural indefinite data)

  1. datum, data
  2. curriculum vitae, résumé

Inflection

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Declension of data
neuter
gender 		singular plural
indefinite definite indefinite definite
nominative data dataet data dataene
genitive datas dataets datas dataenes

Dutch

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Noun

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data

  1. plural of datum
    Synonym: datums
  2. (uncountable) data, information
    Synonym: gegevens

Usage notes

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  • Though many speakers use data "information" as a new singular rather than as the plural of datum (“data point”), this is generally prescribed against.[6][7][8] This is analogous to media in Dutch, which some speakers treat as a new singular rather than as a plural of medium.

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Finnish

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Etymology

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From Latin data.

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /ˈdɑtɑ/, [ˈdɑ̝t̪ɑ̝]
  • Rhymes: -ɑtɑ
  • Syllabification(key): da‧ta
  • Hyphenation(key): da‧ta

Noun

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data

  1. data

Declension

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Inflection of data (Kotus type 9/kala, no gradation)
nominative data datat
genitive datan datojen
partitive dataa datoja
illative dataan datoihin
singular plural
nominative data datat
accusative nom. data datat
gen. datan
genitive datan datojen
datain rare
partitive dataa datoja
inessive datassa datoissa
elative datasta datoista
illative dataan datoihin
adessive datalla datoilla
ablative datalta datoilta
allative datalle datoille
essive datana datoina
translative dataksi datoiksi
abessive datatta datoitta
instructive — datoin
comitative See the possessive forms below.
Possessive forms of data (Kotus type 9/kala, no gradation)
first-person singular possessor
singular plural
nominative datani datani
accusative nom. datani datani
gen. datani
genitive datani datojeni
dataini rare
partitive dataani datojani
inessive datassani datoissani
elative datastani datoistani
illative dataani datoihini
adessive datallani datoillani
ablative dataltani datoiltani
allative datalleni datoilleni
essive datanani datoinani
translative datakseni datoikseni
abessive datattani datoittani
instructive — —
comitative — datoineni
second-person singular possessor
singular plural
nominative datasi datasi
accusative nom. datasi datasi
gen. datasi
genitive datasi datojesi
dataisi rare
partitive dataasi datojasi
inessive datassasi datoissasi
elative datastasi datoistasi
illative dataasi datoihisi
adessive datallasi datoillasi
ablative dataltasi datoiltasi
allative datallesi datoillesi
essive datanasi datoinasi
translative dataksesi datoiksesi
abessive datattasi datoittasi
instructive — —
comitative — datoinesi
first-person plural possessor
singular plural
nominative datamme datamme
accusative nom. datamme datamme
gen. datamme
genitive datamme datojemme
dataimme rare
partitive dataamme datojamme
inessive datassamme datoissamme
elative datastamme datoistamme
illative dataamme datoihimme
adessive datallamme datoillamme
ablative dataltamme datoiltamme
allative datallemme datoillemme
essive datanamme datoinamme
translative dataksemme datoiksemme
abessive datattamme datoittamme
instructive — —
comitative — datoinemme
second-person plural possessor
singular plural
nominative datanne datanne
accusative nom. datanne datanne
gen. datanne
genitive datanne datojenne
datainne rare
partitive dataanne datojanne
inessive datassanne datoissanne
elative datastanne datoistanne
illative dataanne datoihinne
adessive datallanne datoillanne
ablative dataltanne datoiltanne
allative datallenne datoillenne
essive datananne datoinanne
translative dataksenne datoiksenne
abessive datattanne datoittanne
instructive — —
comitative — datoinenne
third-person possessor
singular plural
nominative datansa datansa
accusative nom. datansa datansa
gen. datansa
genitive datansa datojensa
datainsa rare
partitive dataansa datojaan
datojansa
inessive datassaan
datassansa 		datoissaan
datoissansa
elative datastaan
datastansa 		datoistaan
datoistansa
illative dataansa datoihinsa
adessive datallaan
datallansa 		datoillaan
datoillansa
ablative dataltaan
dataltansa 		datoiltaan
datoiltansa
allative datalleen
datallensa 		datoilleen
datoillensa
essive datanaan
datanansa 		datoinaan
datoinansa
translative datakseen
dataksensa 		datoikseen
datoiksensa
abessive datattaan
datattansa 		datoittaan
datoittansa
instructive — —
comitative — datoineen
datoinensa

Synonyms

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  • anne (“datum”) (rare)

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French

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Pronunciation

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Verb

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data

  1. third-person singular past historic of dater

Ilocano

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Etymology 1

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Cognate with Tagalog hilata.

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /ˈdata/, [ˈdaː.ta]
  • Hyphenation: da‧ta

Adjective

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dáta

  1. facing upwards; on one's back
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Etymology 2

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From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *da and Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *-ta, an enclitic form of Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *(i-)kita (“we (inclusive), we (dual)”), whence Proto-Austronesian *(i-)kita (“we (inclusive)”). Compare Kankanaey daita (“we (two), you and I”), Pangasinan sikata (“we (two), you and I”), Kapampangan ikata (“we (two), you and I”), Tagalog kata (“we (two), you and I”), Bikol Central kita (“we (inclusive)”), Cebuano kita (“we (inclusive)”), and Maranao sekta (“we (inclusive)”).

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /daˈta/, [dɐˈta]
  • Hyphenation: da‧ta

Pronoun

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datá

  1. First-person dual absolutive independent pronoun; we (two); us (two); you and I; you and me
    Synonym: sita
    Data laeng ti adda ti kasar ita nga aldaw. ― It is only us two who have a wedding today.
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Ilocano personal pronouns
Person Number Absolutive Ergative Oblique Possessive
Disjunctive Enclitic Enclitic3 bági form kukua form
First singular siak -ak -ko, -k kaniak bagik kukuak, kuak
dual data, sita1 -ta kaniata, kadata bagita kukuata
plural inclusive datayo, sitayo1 -tayo, -tay kaniatayo, kadatayo bagitayo kukuatayo
plural exclusive dakami, sikami1 -kami, -kam -mi kaniami, kadakami bagimi kukuami
Second singular sika -ka -mo, -m kaniam, kenka bagim kukuam
plural dakayo, sikayo1 -kayo, -kay -yo kaniayo, kadakayo bagiyo kukuayo
Third singular isu, isuna Ø2 -na kaniana, kenkuana bagina kukuana
plural isuda -da kaniada, kadakuada bagida kukuada
1Regional variants.
2Null morpheme: there is no absolutive enclitic for the third person singular pronoun. The disjunctives isu or isuna may also be used.
3Ergative enclitics are also used as possessive markers.
Fused enclitics
Actor Patient
siak data datayo dakami sika dakayo isu5 isuda
siak bagik4 — — — -ka -kayo -ko, -k -ko ida, -k ida
data — bagita4 — — — — -ta -ta ida
datayo — — bagitayo4 — — — -tayo -tayo ida
dakami — — — bagimi4 -daka -dakayo -mi -mi ida
sika -nak — — -nakami bagim4 — -mo, -m -mo ida, -m ida
dakayo -dak -data — -dakami — bagiyo4 -yo -yo ida
isu -nak -nata -natayo -nakami -naka -nakayo bagina4, -na -na ida
isuda -dak -data -datayo -dakami -daka -dakayo -da bagida4, -da ida
4Reflexive pronouns use the bagí form.
5 isu or isuna may also be added after the enclitics in this column.

Indonesian

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Etymology

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From Dutch data, from Latin data.

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): [ˈdata]
  • Hyphenation: da‧ta
  • Rhymes: -ta, -a

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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

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Further reading

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Italian

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Pronunciation

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Etymology 1

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From Late Latin data, from Latin datus.

Noun

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data f (plural date)

  1. date (“calendar date”)
    la data di oggi ― today's date
Derived terms
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Etymology 2

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See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb

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data

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

Etymology 3

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See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Participle

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data

  1. feminine singular of dato

References

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  1. ^ data in Luciano Canepari, Dizionario di Pronuncia Italiana (DiPI)

Ladin

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Noun

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data f (plural dates)

  1. date (day number of the month)

Latin

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Pronunciation

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Participle

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data

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

Participle

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datā

  1. ablative feminine singular of datus

Noun

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data

  1. nominative/vocative/accusative plural of datum

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Maltese

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Etymology

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Borrowed from Italian data.

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Noun

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data f (plural dati)

  1. date
  2. data
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Middle Irish

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Noun

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data m

  1. sire, father
  2. foster father, godfather, guardian
    Synonym: aite
  3. sir

Inflection

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Minangkabau

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Etymology

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From Proto-Malayic *datar, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *dataʀ, from Proto-Austronesian *dataʀ.

Adjective

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data

  1. flat

Norwegian Bokmål

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Etymology

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From Latin data, plural of datum (“gift, present”), neuter past participle of dō (“I give, offer”), from Proto-Italic *didō (“give”), from Proto-Indo-European *dédeh₃ti (“to be giving”), from *deh₃- (“give”).

Noun

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

  1. data
  2. short form of datateknologi

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Norwegian Nynorsk

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Etymology 1

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From Latin data, plural of datum.

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data m or n

  1. plural of datum

data m (definite singular dataen, indefinite plural data or dataar or dataer, definite plural dataane or dataene)

  1. (plural: data, in the plural or collective and uncountable) data; information, especially in a computational context
  2. (plural: dataar or dataer, countable) short for datamaskin (“computer”)
  3. (collective, uncountable) short for datateknologi (“computer technology”)
  5. (collective, uncountable, mobile telephony) short for mobildata (“mobile data”)
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Etymology 2

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From English date.

Pronunciation

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Verb

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

  1. a-infinitive form of date

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Polish

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Etymology

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Learned borrowing from Medieval Latin data.

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /ˈda.ta/
  • Audio:(file)
  • Rhymes: -ata
  • Syllabification: da‧ta

Noun

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data f

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

Declension

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Declension of data
singular plural
nominative data daty
genitive daty dat
dative dacie datom
accusative datę daty
instrumental datą datami
locative dacie datach
vocative dato daty

Further reading

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  • data in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
  • data in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Portuguese

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Pronunciation

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Etymology 1

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

Noun

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data f (plural datas)

  1. date (point of time at which a transaction or event takes place)
    Qual é sua data de nascimento? ― What is your date of birth?
  2. (informal) a large quantity
    Uma data de coisas. ― Lots of things.
  3. (informal) a lot, a plot of land
    Quero comprar esta data. ― I want to buy this plot of land

Etymology 2

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See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb

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data

  1. inflection of datar:
    1. third-person singular present indicative
    2. second-person singular imperative

Romanian

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Etymology 1

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Borrowed from French dater.

Verb

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a data (third-person singular present datează, past participle datat) 1st conjugation

  1. to date
Conjugation
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    conjugation of data (first conjugation, -ez- infix)
infinitive a data
gerund datând
past participle datat
number singular plural
person 1st person 2nd person 3rd person 1st person 2nd person 3rd person
indicative eu tu el/ea noi voi ei/ele
present datez datezi datează datăm datați datează
imperfect datam datai data datam datați datau
simple perfect datai datași dată datarăm datarăți datară
pluperfect datasem dataseși datase dataserăm dataserăți dataseră
subjunctive eu tu el/ea noi voi ei/ele
present să datez să datezi să dateze să datăm să datați să dateze
imperative — tu — — voi —
affirmative datează datați
negative nu data nu datați

Etymology 2

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Noun

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data f

  1. nominative/accusative definite singular of dată

Rwanda-Rundi

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Etymology

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From Proto-Bantu *tààtá.

Noun

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dātá class 1a (plural bādâtá class 2a)

  1. my father
  2. my paternal uncle

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

Spanish

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Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /ˈdata/ [ˈd̪a.t̪a]
  • Rhymes: -ata
  • Syllabification: da‧ta

Etymology 1

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Borrowed from Late Latin data, from Latin datus.

Noun

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data f (plural datas)

  1. date (point of time at which a transaction or event takes place)
    Synonym: (more common) fecha
Derived terms
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Etymology 2

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See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb

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data

  1. inflection of datar:
    1. third-person singular present indicative
    2. second-person singular imperative

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Swahili

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Pronunciation

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Etymology 1

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Unadapted borrowing from English data.[1]

Noun

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data class IX (plural data class X)

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

Etymology 2

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

Verb

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-data (infinitive kudata)

  1. to crackle
  2. to miss a desired outcome
  3. to adhere to something
Conjugation
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Conjugation of -data
Positive present -nadata
Subjunctive -date
Negative -dati
Imperative singular data
Infinitives
Positive kudata
Negative kutodata
Imperatives
Singular data
Plural dateni
Tensed forms
Habitual hudata
Positive past positive subject concord + -lidata
Negative past negative subject concord + -kudata
Positive present (positive subject concord + -nadata)
Singular Plural
1st person ninadata/nadata tunadata
2nd person unadata mnadata
3rd person m-wa(I/II) anadata wanadata
other classes positive subject concord + -nadata
Negative present (negative subject concord + -dati)
Singular Plural
1st person sidati hatudati
2nd person hudati hamdati
3rd person m-wa(I/II) hadati hawadati
other classes negative subject concord + -dati
Positive future positive subject concord + -tadata
Negative future negative subject concord + -tadata
Positive subjunctive (positive subject concord + -date)
Singular Plural
1st person nidate tudate
2nd person udate mdate
3rd person m-wa(I/II) adate wadate
other classes positive subject concord + -date
Negative subjunctive positive subject concord + -sidate
Positive present conditional positive subject concord + -ngedata
Negative present conditional positive subject concord + -singedata
Positive past conditional positive subject concord + -ngalidata
Negative past conditional positive subject concord + -singalidata
Gnomic (positive subject concord + -adata)
Singular Plural
1st person nadata twadata
2nd person wadata mwadata
3rd person m-wa(I/II) adata wadata
m-mi(III/IV) wadata yadata
ji-ma(V/VI) ladata yadata
ki-vi(VII/VIII) chadata vyadata
n(IX/X) yadata zadata
u(XI) wadata see n(X) or ma(VI) class
ku(XV/XVII) kwadata
pa(XVI) padata
mu(XVIII) mwadata
Perfect positive subject concord + -medata
"Already" positive subject concord + -meshadata
"Not yet" negative subject concord + -jadata
"If/When" positive subject concord + -kidata
"If not" positive subject concord + -sipodata
Consecutive kadata / positive subject concord + -kadata
Consecutive subjunctive positive subject concord + -kadate
Object concord (indicative positive)
Singular Plural
1st person -nidata -tudata
2nd person -kudata -wadata/-kudateni/-wadateni
3rd person m-wa(I/II) -mdata -wadata
m-mi(III/IV) -udata -idata
ji-ma(V/VI) -lidata -yadata
ki-vi(VII/VIII) -kidata -vidata
n(IX/X) -idata -zidata
u(XI) -udata see n(X) or ma(VI) class
ku(XV/XVII) -kudata
pa(XVI) -padata
mu(XVIII) -mudata
Reflexive -jidata
Relative forms
General positive (positive subject concord + (object concord) + -data- + relative marker)
Singular Plural
m-wa(I/II) -dataye -datao
m-mi(III/IV) -datao -datayo
ji-ma(V/VI) -datalo -datayo
ki-vi(VII/VIII) -datacho -datavyo
n(IX/X) -datayo -datazo
u(XI) -datao see n(X) or ma(VI) class
ku(XV/XVII) -datako
pa(XVI) -datapo
mu(XVIII) -datamo
Other forms (subject concord + tense marker + relative marker + (object concord) + -data)
Singular Plural
m-wa(I/II) -yedata -odata
m-mi(III/IV) -odata -yodata
ji-ma(V/VI) -lodata -yodata
ki-vi(VII/VIII) -chodata -vyodata
n(IX/X) -yodata -zodata
u(XI) -odata see n(X) or ma(VI) class
ku(XV/XVII) -kodata
pa(XVI) -podata
mu(XVIII) -modata
Some forms not commonly seen in modern Standard Swahili are absent from the table. See Appendix:Swahili verbs for more information.

References

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  1. ^ Petzell, Malin (2005) “Expanding the Swahili vocabulary”, in Africa & Asia‎[2], volume 5, →ISSN, archived from the original on 2009-11-29, page 88 of 85-107: “There are however fully adopted words like data ‘data’ with no visible degree of phonemic substitution even though the pronunciation has gone through a certain degree of swahilisation.”

Swedish

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Etymology

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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

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data c

  1. (uncountable) information, especially encoded information that can be processed by computers
  2. (colloquial, proscribed) Alternative form of dator (“computer”)
    Det är fel på datan. ― Something's wrong with the computer.
    • 1966, Olof Johannesson (pen name of Hannes Alfvén), Sagan om den stora datamaskinen:
      De första datorna var ju också mycket enkla.
      The first computers were indeed very simple.

Usage notes

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  • 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

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Declension of data
nominative genitive
singular indefinite data datas
definite datan datans
plural indefinite dator dators
definite datorna datornas

Derived terms

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Vestinian

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Etymology

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See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Participle

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data (perfect passive participle)

  1. perfect passive participle of didet

Usage notes

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  • Conway lists this term as an ablative feminine singular form found in an ablative absolute construction
  • De Vaan lists this form as a genitive feminine singular

References

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  • De Vaan, Michiel (2008) Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN
  • Robert Seymour Conway (1897) The Italic Dialects‎[10] (overall work in English), Cambridge University Press, page 605
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