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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.

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• (UK, Ireland, US, sometimes: General Australian, New Zealand, General South African, Indic)
  • enPR: dā'tə, IPA^(key): /ˈdeɪ.tə/
  • (US) IPA^(key):

    • Audio (US):

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  • (Indic) IPA^(key): /deːta/, (pain–pane merged) /dejtaː/
  • Homophone: dater (non-rhotic, except some South Asian accents)
  • Rhymes: -eɪtə
• (US, Canada, Ireland)
  • enPR: dăt'ə, IPA^(key): /ˈdæt.ə/
    • (US, Canada) IPA^(key):

      • Audio (US):

        (file)

  • Rhymes: -ætə
• (General Australian, New Zealand, General South African, UK formal)
  • enPR: dä'tə, IPA^(key): /ˈdɑː.tə/
  • (General Australian, New Zealand) IPA^(key):

    • Audio (General Australian):

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  • Homophone: darter (non-rhotic)
  • Rhymes: -ɑːtə

English Wikipedia has articles on:

data and data set

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data § Etymology and terminology and data (word)

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data

2. plural of datum

   Synonym: data points

   Holonym: data set

   • 1692, William Molyneux, Edmund Halley, Dioptrica nova‎, London: Benj. Tooke, page 100:

     First from these Data, let us obtain the Breadth of the Glass e z

data (uncountable)

2. (collective, computing) A representation of information in a computer (as symbols, quantities, sound, images or videos) which is stored, processed or transmitted in the form of electrical signals, records on magnetic tape or punched cards, etc.

   Data can be sent through email.

3. (collective) Material recorded and known or assumed as facts and used as a basis for reasoning, discussion, or calculation, represented especially in the form of numbers, and is usually structured (such as statistics).

   Near-synonyms: dataset, data set, data points

   This data shows that X is correlated with Y.

   • 1992, Rudolf M 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.

5. (mobile telephony) Ellipsis of mobile data (“digital information transmitted using the cellular telephone network rather than Wi-Fi”).

   run out of data

• The word data was traditionally seen as plural of datum, but in recent usage, it has been shifting to being a mass noun.
• 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.

• big data
• metadata
• primary data
• raw data

• → Turkish: data

• “data, n.”, in OED Online ⁠, Oxford: Oxford University Press, launched 2000.
• “data”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 1996–present.

• data on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

• ADAT, TADA, a tad, adat, ta-da, tada

Cognate with Saho data.

• IPA^(key): /daˈta/
• Hyphenation: da‧ta

datá

1. (stative) be black

• qadó (“be white”)

• 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, Leiden: Leiden University, page 2
• Mohamed Hassan Kamil (2015) L’afar: description grammaticale d’une langue couchitique (Djibouti, Erythrée et Ethiopie)‎, Paris: Université Sorbonne Paris Cité (doctoral thesis), page 307

Inherited from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *dataʀ. Doublet of rata.

• IPA^(key): /datə/
• Hyphenation: da‧ta

data (Balinese script ᬤᬢ)

1. flat

   Synonym: rata

• “data” in Balinese–Indonesian Dictionary , Denpasar, Indonesia: The Linguistic Center of Bali Province .

Borrowed from Late Latin data < Latin datus.

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic)
• IPA^(key): (Valencia)

• Audio:

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data f (plural dates)

1. date (specific moment in time)

• “data” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.
• “data” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “data”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2025.
• “data”, in Diccionari de la llengua catalana (in Catalan), second edition, Institute of Catalan Studies , 2007 April

data

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

• Hyphenation: da‧ta

data

1. installment, partial payment

From English data.

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。
      呢个位收data好慢。

      ni¹ go³ wai^6-2 sau¹ dei¹ taa⁴ hou² maan⁶.

      Receiving mobile data connection is very slow at this spot.

   2. quota or limit of mobile data usage

      爆data   ―  baau³ dei¹ taa⁴   ―  to exceed the mobile data usage limit

      我今個月仲有好多data淨。
      我今个月仲有好多data净。

      ngo⁵ gam¹ go³ jyut⁶ zung⁶ jau⁵ hou² do¹ dei¹ taa⁴ zing⁶.

      I still have a lot of quota for mobile data usage left for this month.

• IPA^(key):

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data n pl (relational adjective datový)

1. data

   Synonym: údaje

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

Danish Wikipedia has an article on:

data

Wikipedia ^da

data n (singular definite dataet, plural indefinite data)

1. datum, data
2. curriculum vitae, résumé

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data

1. plural of datum

   Synonym: datums

2. (uncountable) data, information

   Synonym: gegevens

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

Finnish Wikipedia has an article on:

data

Wikipedia ^fi

From Latin data.

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

data

1. data

• anne (“datum”) (rare)

• “data”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja ‎ (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 2023-07-02

• IPA^(key): /da.ta/

• Audio:

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data

1. third-person singular past historic of dater

Cognate with Tagalog hilata.

• IPA^(key): /ˈdata/,
• Hyphenation: da‧ta

dáta

1. facing upwards; on one's back

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)”).

• IPA^(key): /daˈta/,
• Hyphenation: da‧ta

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.

• datdata

Indonesian Wikipedia has an article on:

data

Wikipedia ^id

From Dutch data, from Latin data.

• IPA^(key):
• Hyphenation: da‧ta
• Rhymes: -ta, -a

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

• “data” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016.

• IPA^(key): /ˈda.ta/
• Rhymes: -ata
• Hyphenation: dà‧ta

From Late Latin data, from Latin datus.

data f (plural date)

1. date (“calendar date”)

   la data di oggi ― today's date

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

data

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

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

data

1. feminine singular of dato

data f (plural dates)

1. date (day number of the month)

• data: (Classical Latin) IPA^(key):
• data: (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key):
• datā: (Classical Latin) IPA^(key):
• datā: (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key):

data

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

datā

1. ablative feminine singular of datus

data

1. nominative/vocative/accusative plural of datum

• "data", in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)

Borrowed from Italian data.

• IPA^(key): /ˈdaː.ta/

data f (plural dati)

1. date
2. data

data m

1. sire, father
2. foster father, godfather, guardian

   Synonym: aite

3. sir

This noun needs an inflection-table template.

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

data

1. flat

Norwegian Wikipedia has an article on:

data

Wikipedia ^no

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”).

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

1. data
2. ellipsis of datateknologi

• “data” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

From Latin data, plural of datum.

• IPA^(key): /ˈdɑː.tɑ/

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) ellipsis of datamaskin (“computer”)
3. (collective, uncountable) ellipsis of datateknologi (“computer technology”)
5. (collective, uncountable, mobile telephony) ellipsis of mobildata (“mobile data”)

From English date.

• IPA^(key): /²dɛɪ̯.tɑ/

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

1. a-infinitive form of date

• “data” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

• tada

Polish Wikipedia has an article on:

data

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Learned borrowing from Medieval Latin data.

• IPA^(key): /ˈda.ta/

• Audio:

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• Rhymes: -ata
• Syllabification: da‧ta

data f

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

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

Portuguese Wikipedia has an article on:

data

Wikipedia ^pt

• (Northeast Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈda.ta/
• Rhymes: -atɐ
• Hyphenation: da‧ta

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

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

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

data

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

Borrowed from French dater.

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

1. to date

data f

1. nominative/accusative definite singular of dată

From Proto-Bantu *tààtá.

dātá class 1a (plural bādâtá class 2a)

1. my father
2. my paternal uncle

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

• IPA^(key): /ˈdata/
• Rhymes: -ata
• Syllabification: da‧ta

Borrowed from Late Latin data, from Latin datus.

data f (plural datas)

1. date (point of time at which a transaction or event takes place)

   Synonym: (more common) fecha

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

data

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

• “data”, in Diccionario de la lengua española (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy , 2024 December 10

• Audio (Kenya):

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Swahili Wikipedia has an article on:

data

Wikipedia ^sw

Unadapted borrowing from English data.

data class IX (plural data class X)

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

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

-data (infinitive kudata)

1. to crackle
2. to miss a desired outcome
3. to adhere to something

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.

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.

• 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.

• datavirus
• trafikdata

• data in Svensk ordbok (SO)
• “Hur kan man använda data och datan? ”, in Frågelådan, Swedish Language Council, 2019 December 28 (last accessed)

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

data (perfect passive participle)

1. perfect passive participle of didet