datum Latin · revision 9798

+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=derivation|attested=Plautus|origins=ine-pro *deh₃-}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * IPA (Classical): [ˈda.tũː]^(Wiktionary)

+ * IPA (Ecclesiastical): [ˈdaː.tum]^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''datum''' ''n'' (genitive datī); second declension^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is the neuter of [[datus]], the participle of [[dō]] “to give”, used as a noun.^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)^(Etymonline) De Vaan traces the root of ⟨dō⟩ to [[ine-pro|*deh₃-|t=to give]], whose root aorist gave Latin ⟨dare⟩.^(de Vaan 2008)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ Its earliest source is Plautus.^(Köbler 2010) Köbler dates Plautus c. 250–184 BC.^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ It meant that which is given, a present, mostly in the plural, as in Propertius and Ovid, and in accounts a debit.^(OLD 2012)^(Gaffiot 2016)

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+ In Ecclesiastical Latin it meant a gift.^(Stelten 1995) Medieval Latin used it for a legacy, an enfeoffment and investiture, and for a charter.^(Niermeyer 1976) This gave German ''Datum'' “date”.^(Köbler 2010) English ''datum'', in the plural ''data'' (1640s, “a fact given or granted”), first meant a fact given as the basis of a mathematical problem.^(Etymonline) It survives in Italian ''dato'' and ''dado'', Spanish ''dato'' and ''dado'' and French ''dé''.^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * c. 250–184 BC – Plautus uses it.^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 43 BC–18 AD – Ovid uses it of gifts.^(Gaffiot 2016)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 1640s – English ''data'' is recorded.^(Etymonline)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Noun===

+ # That which is given, a [[m|en|present]], gift.^(OLD 2012)^(Gaffiot 2016)

+ # ''(accounts)'' A [[m|en|debit]].^(OLD 2012)

+ # ''(Medieval Latin)'' A legacy; an [[m|en|investiture]].^(Niermeyer 1976)

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[dō]]

+ * [[datus]]

+ * [[dōnum]]

+ * [[en|datum]]

+ * [[en|data]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}