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"data (an item of)" in seven languages

Meaningdata (an item of)

Spanish

dato

/ˈdato/

masc.learned

Usually plural: los datos.

French

donnée

/dɔne/

fem.other source · French donnée, participle of donner 'to give' (Latin DŌNĀRE)

Usually plural: les données.

Italian

dato

/ˈdato/

masc.learned

Usually plural: i dati.

Portuguese

dado

/ˈdadu/

masc.inherited

Simply the participle of dar 'to give', with the voiced -d- the learned Spanish dato lacks.

Romanian

dată

/ˈdatə/

fem.learned

plural: date

For data Romanian uses the plural, date; the singular dată is usually 'date' or 'time'.

Catalan

dada

/ˈdadə/

fem.learned

Feminine, from the Latin plural DATA.

English

data

/ˈdeɪtə/

from Latin/French · Latin data, plural of datum 'thing given'

English → Italiandata (an item of)datoCognateSame source — inherited, learned or borrowed. You can recognize it.What English and Italian share

The Latin ancestor

DATUM‘a thing given (from DARE 'to give')’

All six sisters descend from it, unless marked otherwise below.

The story

Data are literally 'givens'. Spanish and Italian took the Latin word; French translated the idea with its own verb, donner, so données means exactly the same thing.

English relatives: date (a given day), datum

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In a sentence

  • esNecesitamos más datos.
  • frIl nous faut plus de données.
  • itCi servono più dati.
  • ptPrecisamos de mais dados.
  • roAvem nevoie de mai multe date.
  • caNecessitem més dades.
  • enWe need more data.

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