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English
Alternative forms
- D (electronics)
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin data, nominative plural of datum (“that is given”), neuter past participle of dō (“to give”). Doublet of date.
Pronunciation
- adaptation of original Latin pronunciation
- most commonly in Australia, New Zealand and South Africa; formal UK pronunciation
- Homophone: darter (non-rhotic)
- IPA(key): /ˈdɑːtə/ (Received Pronunciation)
- IPA(key): /ɖɑʈɑ/ (South Asia)
- IPA(key): [ˈdäːɾə] (General Australian, New Zealand)
- most commonly in the UK, US and Ireland
- less commonly in Australia, New Zealand and South Africa
- Homophone: dater (non-rhotic)
- IPA(key): /ˈdeɪtə/ (Received Pronunciation, General American)
- IPA(key): /ˈdɛjtə/ (Standard Southern British)
- IPA(key): /ɖeʈɑ/ (South Asia)
- IPA(key): [ˈdeɪɾə] (US, flapping)
- spelling pronunciation
Noun
data

- plural of datum
- Synonym: data points
- Holonym: data set
- These data show that the new policy is not working as intended.
- 1692, William Molyneux, Edmund Halley, Dioptrica nova[4], London: Benj. Tooke, page 100:
- First from these Data, let us obtain the Breadth of the Glass e z
- 2009, J. David Cummins, Olivier Mahul, “CAT Bonds and Other Risk-Linked Securities: State of the Market and Recent Developments”, in Catastrophe Risk Financing in Developing Countries: Principles for Public Intervention (World Bank e-Library)[5], World Bank Publications, →ISBN, page 226:
- In the past, the CAT bond market has been criticized for lack of investor interest. However, that assessment is now outdated—recent data suggest broad market interest in CAT bonds among institutional investors. Figure A9.8 shows the percentage of new issue volume by investor type in 1999 and 2007. In 1999, insurers and reinsurers were very prominent on both the supply and demand sides of the market and were among the leading investors in the bonds, accounting for 55 percent of the market. If insurers and reinsurers are on both sides of the market, the market cannot be said to have attracted very much new capital into the financing of catastrophic risk. However, by 2007, insurers and reinsurers accounted for only 7 percent of demand, suggesting that substantial external capital has been attracted to the market. Dedicated CAT funds accounted for 55 percent of the market in 2007, and money managers and hedge funds accounted for 36 percent. The declining spreads and increasingly broad market interest in the bonds suggest that the bonds are attractive to investors and are playing an increasingly important role relative to conventional reinsurance.
Noun
data (uncountable)
- (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.
- (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 usually structured (such as statistics).
- Near-synonyms: dataset, data set, data points
- This data shows that X is correlated with Y.
- 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.
- 2022 July 20, Nikhil Sonnad, Quartz[6]:
- When Hill wrote his history of “dude,” understanding such trends in slang was close to impossible. There simply weren’t enough data. Not so today. To uncover the hidden shape of vocative use, linguists can draw on one of the best datasets the English language has ever had: Twitter.
- (mobile telephony) Ellipsis of mobile data (“digital information transmitted using the cellular telephone network rather than Wi-Fi”).
- run out of data
Usage notes
- The word data was traditionally seen as plural of datum, but in recent usage, it has been shifting to being a mass noun.[1][2] Some style guides still prescribe the count sense, with certain exceptions given (e.g., big 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.[3]
Hyponyms
Derived terms
- abstract data type
- air data
- algebraic data type
- anecdata
- application protocol data unit
- automatic data processing machine
- biodata
- bulk data
- champion data
- dark data
- data access object
- data acquisition
- data analysis
- databack
- databank
- data bank
- data base
- data-base
- database
- databend
- data binding
- data binning
- data blocker
- databook
- data-bound
- databox
- data breach
- data broker
- data bus
- data cable
- Data Carrier Equipment
- datacast
- data center
- data centre
- datacentric
- Data Circuit-Terminating Equipment
- data collection
- data collection tree
- data communications
- Data Communications Equipment
- data compression
- data controller
- data coupling
- data cube
- data custody
- data dictionary
- data division
- data domain
- data dredging
- data-driven
- data element
- data engineer
- data entry
- data exhaust
- data farming
- data feed
- datafication
- data file
- datafile
- data flow
- data flow diagram
- dataframe
- data fusion
- datafy
- data gathering
- data glove
- data governance
- datagram
- data hiding
- datahub
- data integration
- data integrity
- dataism
- dataist
- data journalism
- data journalist
- data lake
- data lakehouse
- data leak
- dataless
- datalike
- datalink
- datalog
- data logger
- datalogger
- datalogy
- data maintenance
- data management
- data manager
- data mart
- data matrix
- data member
- data mine
- data miner
- data mining
- data-mining
- data model
- data modeling
- datamosh
- data munging
- data-oriented
- datapad
- data path
- datapath
- data path, datapath
- data-phobe
- data-phobic
- data phobic
- dataphone
- data plane
- data-point
- data point
- data poisoning
- data privacy
- data processing
- data-processing
- data processing machine
- data protection
- data quality
- data race
- data rate
- datarati
- data record
- data recorder
- data recovery
- data room
- data rot
- datascape
- data science
- data scientist
- data scraping
- data scrubbing
- data set
- dataset
- datasheet
- datasheet, data sheet
- data sink
- data slam
- data smoothing
- data snooping
- datasonde
- data source
- data sovereignty
- dataspace
- dataspeak
- datasphere
- data stick
- data store
- data stream
- data structure
- data-structured coupling
- data swamp
- data synchronization
- data table
- data terminal equipment
- datathon
- data trail
- data transfer object
- data transfer rate
- data type
- dataveillance
- dataverse
- data visualisation
- data visualization
- data warehouse
- data warehousing
- data wipe
- data wrangling
- eigendata
- electronic data interchange
- empirical data
- event data recorder
- flight data recorder
- floating car data
- floating cellular data
- fundamental data
- geodata
- hyperdata
- master data
- master data management
- mega-data
- megadata
- meta data
- metadata
- microdata
- multidata
- nuclear data
- octal data rate
- orthodata
- paleodata
- paradata
- personal data
- plain old data
- pseudodata
- Pure Data
- raw data
- reference data
- session data
- single data rate
- statistical data binning
- streaming data
- the plural of anecdote is not data
- tramp data
- transaction data
- USB data blocker
- viewdata
- virtual data room
- voyage data recorder
Descendants
Translations
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References
- ^ “Is `data' singular or plural?”, in AskOxford.com[1], Oxford University Press, archived from the original on 1 November 2001:
- ^ “data”, in The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th edition, Boston, Mass.: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2016, →ISBN.
- ^
- “data, n.”, in OED Online
, Oxford: Oxford University Press, launched 2000. - “data”, in Merriam-Webster.com Online Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 1996–present.
Further reading
Anagrams
Afar
Etymology
Pronunciation
Verb
datá
Conjugation
| 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
- qadó (“be white”)
References
- 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 (August 2013), “Gender, Number and Agreement in Afar (Cushitic language)”, in 43rd Colloquium on African Languages and Linguistics[7], Leiden: Leiden University, page 2
- Mohamed Hassan Kamil (2015), L’afar: description grammaticale d’une langue couchitique (Djibouti, Erythrée et Ethiopie)[8], Paris: Université Sorbonne Paris Cité (doctoral thesis), page 307
Asturian
Etymology
Learned borrowing from Old Leonese data.
Pronunciation
Noun
data f (plural dates)
Further reading
- Xosé Lluis García Arias (2002–2004), “data”, in Diccionario general de la lengua asturiana [General Dictionary of the Asturian Language] (in Spanish), Editorial Prensa Asturiana, →ISBN
- “data”, in Diccionariu de la llingua asturiana [Dictionary of the Asturian Language] (in Asturian), 1st edition, Academy of the Asturian Language [Asturian: Academia de la Llingua Asturiana], 2000, →ISBN
Balinese
Etymology
Inherited from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *dataʀ. Doublet of rata.
Pronunciation
Adjective
data (Balinese script ᬤᬢ)
Further reading
- “data”, in Balinese–Indonesian Dictionary [Kamus Bahasa Bali–Indonesia] (in Balinese), Denpasar, Indonesia: The Linguistic Center of Bali Province [Balai Bahasa Provinsi Bali].
Catalan
Etymology 1
Borrowed from Late Latin data < Latin datus.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): (Northern, Balearic, Central) [ˈda.tə]
- IPA(key): (Valencia, Northwestern) [ˈda.ta]
Audio: (file)
Noun
data f (plural dates)
- date (specific moment in time)
Further reading
- Alcover, Antoni Maria; Moll, Francesc de Borja (1963), “data”, in Diccionari català-valencià-balear (in Catalan)
- “data” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
- “data”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2026
- “data”, in Diccionari de la llengua catalana [Dictionary of the Catalan Language] (in Catalan), second edition, Institute of Catalan Studies [Catalan: Institut d'Estudis Catalans], April 2007
Etymology 2
Verb
data
- inflection of datar:
Cebuano
Pronunciation
- Hyphenation: da‧ta
Noun
data
Chinese
Etymology
Pronunciation
- Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
- Jyutping: dei1 taa4
- Yale: dēi tàh
- Cantonese Pinyin: dei1 taa4
- Guangdong Romanization: déi1 ta4
- Sinological IPA (key): /tei̯⁵⁵ tʰaː²¹/
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
Noun
data (Hong Kong Cantonese)
- data (information)
- data; mobile data
- Internet connection using mobile data, i.e. not using Wi-Fi
- quota or limit of mobile data usage
Cornish
Etymology
Borrowed from English data, from Latin data, plural of datum.
Noun
data (collective)
Mutation
| radical | soft | aspirate | hard | mixed |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| data | dhata | unchanged | tata | tata |
Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Cornish.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.
References
- “data” in Cornish Dictionary / Gerlyver Kernewek, Akademi Kernewek.
Czech
Pronunciation
Noun
data n pl (relational adjective datový)
Declension
Related terms
- databáze f
Further reading
- “data”, in Kartotéka Novočeského lexikálního archivu (in Czech)
- “data”, in Internetová jazyková příručka (in Czech), 2008–2026
Danish
Noun
data n (singular definite dataet, plural indefinite data)
Inflection
| neuter gender |
singular | plural | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| indefinite | definite | indefinite | definite | |
| nominative | data | dataet | data | dataene |
| genitive | datas | dataets | datas | dataenes |
Dutch
Pronunciation
Audio: (file)
Noun
data
- plural of datum
- Synonym: datums
- (uncountable) data, information
- Synonym: gegevens
Usage notes
- Though many speakers use data "information" as a new singular rather than as the plural of datum (“data point”), this is generally prescribed against.[9][10][11] This is analogous to media in Dutch, which some speakers treat as a new singular rather than as a plural of medium.
Derived terms
Finnish
Etymology
Pronunciation
Noun
data
Declension
| 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. | ||
Synonyms
- anne (“datum”) (rare)
Derived terms
- data-analyysi
- data-analyytikko
- data-arkisto
- data-arkkitehti
- datainsinööri
- datajournalismi
- datakeskus
- dataliikenne
- datameklari
- datanlouhinta
- datansiirto
- datansiirtoverkko
- datapainotteinen
- dataprojektori
- datasiirto
- datasiirtolaite
- datasiirtoverkko
- datasähkö
- datatalous
- datatekniikka
- datatiede
- datatiedosto
- datatieteilijä
- dataverkko
- dataväylä
- massadata
- metadata
- mobiilidata
- pakettidata
- raakadata
Further reading
- “data”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish][12] (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 2 July 2023
French
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /da.ta/
Audio (France (Brétigny-sur-Orge)): (file)
Verb
data
Ilocano
Etymology 1
Pronunciation
Adjective
dáta
Derived terms
Etymology 2
From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *da and Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *-ta, an enclitic form of Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *(i-)kita (“we (inclusive), we (dual)”), from 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”), Central Bikol kita (“we (inclusive)”), Cebuano kita (“we (inclusive)”), and Maranao sekta (“we (inclusive)”).
Pronunciation
Pronoun
datá
- 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.
Derived terms
See also
| 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 | ||
| 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 |
Indonesian
Etymology
From Dutch data, from Latin data.
Pronunciation
- (Standard Indonesian) IPA(key): /ˈdata/ [ˈda.t̪a]
- Rhymes: -ata
- Syllabification: da‧ta
Noun
data
- datum,
- a fact known from direct observation
- a premise from which conclusions are drawn
- data,
- information, especially in a scientific or computational context, or with the implication that it is organized
- recorded observations that are usually presented in a structured format
- (computing) a representation of facts or ideas in a formalized manner capable of being communicated or manipulated by some process
Derived terms
Related terms
Further reading
- “data”, in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia [Great Dictionary of the Indonesian Language] (in Indonesian), Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016
Italian
Pronunciation
Etymology 1
From Late Latin data, from Latin datus.
Noun
data f (plural date)
- date (“calendar date”)
- la data di oggi ― today's date
Derived terms
Related terms
Etymology 2
See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
Verb
data
- inflection of datare:
Etymology 3
See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
Participle
data
References
- ^ data in Luciano Canepari, Dizionario di Pronuncia Italiana (DiPI)
Ladin
Noun
data f (plural dates)
- date (day number of the month)
Latin
Pronunciation
- data:
- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [ˈda.ta]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [ˈdaː.ta]
- datā:
- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [ˈda.taː]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [ˈdaː.ta]
Participle
data
- inflection of datus:
Participle
datā
Noun
data
References
- "data", in Charles du Fresne du Cange, Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
Maltese
Etymology
Borrowed from Italian data. Expansion from date to data perhaps from English.
Pronunciation
Noun
data f (plural dati)
Related terms
Middle Irish
Noun
data m
Inflection
This noun needs an inflection-table template.
Minangkabau
Etymology
From Proto-Malayic *datar, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *dataʀ, from Proto-Austronesian *dataʀ.
Adjective
data
Norwegian Bokmål
Etymology
From Latin data, plural of datum (“gift, present”), neuter past participle of dō (“to give, offer”), from Proto-Italic *didō (“give”), from Proto-Indo-European *dédeh₃ti (“to be giving”), from *deh₃- (“give”).
Noun
data m or n (definite singular dataen or dataet, indefinite plural data, definite plural dataene)
Derived terms
References
- “data” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
Norwegian Nynorsk
Etymology 1
From Latin data, plural of datum.
Pronunciation
Noun
data m or n
data m (definite singular dataen, indefinite plural data or dataar or dataer, definite plural dataane or dataene)
- (plural: data, in the plural or collective and uncountable) data; information, especially in a computational context
- (plural: dataar or dataer, countable) ellipsis of datamaskin (“computer”)
- (collective, uncountable) ellipsis of datateknologi (“computer technology”)
- (collective, uncountable, mobile telephony) ellipsis of mobildata (“mobile data”)
Derived terms
Etymology 2
Pronunciation
Verb
data (present tense datar, past tense data, past participle data, imperative date)
- a-infinitive form of date
References
- “data” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
Anagrams
Polish
Etymology
Learned borrowing from Medieval Latin data.
Pronunciation
Noun
data f
- date (point of time at which event takes place; a specific day)
Declension
Further reading
- “data”, in Wielki słownik języka polskiego[13] (in Polish), Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
- “data”, in Polish dictionaries at PWN[14] (in Polish)
Portuguese
Pronunciation
- (Northeast Brazil) IPA(key): /ˈda.ta/
Audio (Portugal (Porto)): (file) - Rhymes: -atɐ
- Hyphenation: da‧ta
Etymology 1
Borrowed from Late Latin data, from Latin datus (“given”). Doublet of dada.
Noun
data f (plural datas)
- date (point of time at which a transaction or event takes place)
- Qual é sua data de nascimento? ― What is your date of birth?
- (informal) a large quantity
- Uma data de coisas. ― Lots of things.
- (informal) a lot, a plot of land
- Quero comprar esta data. ― I want to buy this plot of land
Etymology 2
See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
Verb
data
- inflection of datar:
Further reading
- “data”, in Dicionário Aulete Digital (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2026
- “data”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2026
Romanian
Etymology 1
Verb
a data (third-person singular present datează, past participle datat) 1st conjugation
- to date
Conjugation
| 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 | — | |
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| negative | nu data | nu datați | |||||
Etymology 2
Noun
data f
Rwanda-Rundi
Etymology
From Proto-Bantu *tààtá.
Noun
dātá class 1a (plural bādâtá class 2a)
See also
Spanish
Pronunciation
Etymology 1
Borrowed from Late Latin data, from Latin datus.
Noun
data f (plural datas)
Derived terms
Related terms
Etymology 2
See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
Verb
data
- inflection of datar:
Further reading
- “data”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8.1, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 15 December 2025
Swahili
Pronunciation
Etymology 1
Unadapted borrowing from English data.[1]
Noun
data class IX (plural data class X)
- data (information, especially in a scientific or computational context)
Etymology 2
(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)
Verb
-data (infinitive kudata)
Conjugation
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References
- ^ Petzell, Malin (2005), “Expanding the Swahili vocabulary”, in Africa & Asia[3], volume 5, →ISSN, archived from the original on 29 November 2009, 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
Etymology
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.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /²dɑːta/
- (Central Sweden) IPA(key): [ˈd̪ɑ̹ː˧˩ˌt̪a˥˩], [ˈd͇ɑ̹ː˧˩ˌt̪a˥˩]
- Hyphenation: da‧ta
Noun
data c
- (uncountable) information, especially encoded information that can be processed by computers
- (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
- 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
| nominative | genitive | ||
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| singular | indefinite | data | datas |
| definite | datan | datans | |
| plural | indefinite | dator | dators |
| definite | datorna | datornas |
Derived terms
References
- “data”, in Svensk ordbok [Dictionary of Swedish] (in Swedish)
- “Hur kan man använda data och datan? [How are data and datan used?]”, in Frågelådan, Swedish Language Council, 28 December 2019 (last accessed)
Vestinian
Etymology
See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
Participle
data (perfect passive participle)
Usage notes
- 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
- 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[15] (overall work in English), Cambridge University Press, page 605
Welsh
Etymology
Pronunciation
Noun
data m or m pl (singular datwm)
- data
- Synonyms: gwybodaeth, manylion
Mutation
| radical | soft | nasal | aspirate |
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| data | ddata | nata | unchanged |
Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Welsh.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.
Further reading
- Griffiths, Bruce; Glyn Jones, Dafydd (1995), “data”, in Geiriadur yr Academi: The Welsh Academy English–Welsh Dictionary[16], Cardiff: University of Wales Press, →ISBN
- Griffiths, Bruce; Glyn Jones, Dafydd (1995), “datum”, in Geiriadur yr Academi: The Welsh Academy English–Welsh Dictionary[17], Cardiff: University of Wales Press, →ISBN
- D. G. Lewis, N. Lewis, editors (2005–present), “data”, in Gweiadur: the Welsh–English Dictionary, Gwerin
- R. J. Thomas, G. A. Bevan, P. J. Donovan, A. Hawke, et al., editors (1950–present), “data”, in Geiriadur Prifysgol Cymru Online (in Welsh), University of Wales Centre for Advanced Welsh & Celtic Studies

