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“date” in Latin
diēsA solar or sidereal day of about 24 hours, especially (historical) Roman dates reckoned from one midnight to the next.; palmuladiminutive of palma; the palm of the hand; the fruit of the palm tree; datepalmapalm of the hand, hand; blade of an oar; palm tree; date treedatōto give frequently, hand over oftenobsolēscōto wear out; to fall into disuse; to grow oldobsolētusold, worn out, thrown off; obsolete, out-of-date; common, ordinary, mean, lowscrībōto writeincipiōto begin, to commencecoepīto have begun or started; to begin
The English word date itself goes back to Latin dō, through data.
Riddle & Arnold A Copious and Critical English–Latin Lexicon, 1864
date
dies. Without data, sine die et consule (after Roman custom); *sine die. His third letter bears data the 12th of November, tertia est epistola prid. Id. Novemb. data (Cic.). Your letters were of an earlier data than Caes.’s, antiquior dies in tuis ascripta litteris, quam in Caesaris.
End; Vid:
Duration; Vid:
To grow out of date, obsolescere: out of data, obsoletus; desuetus.
The fruit of the palm-tree, palmula; palmae pomum.
The tree itself, palma (*phoenix dactylifera, Linn.): a data grove, palmetum. Data wine, vinum palmeum :”Date,” as adjective palmeus.
date v.
To date a letter, diem in epistola ascribere: to neglect to date it, diem in epistola non ascribere: the third letter is dated November 12, tertia est epistola prid. Id. Novemb. data (Cic., Att., 3, 23, 1, 5): not dated, sine die et consule (since the ancients reckoned by consuls; Ulp., Dig., 2, 13, 1, § 1). OBS. In a wider sense, “to date” may be translated by dare, scribere. His letter was dated the first of January, epistola Calendis Januariis data or scripta est (after Cic.).
To refer the beginning or origin of anything to anything or anybody, repetere initia alicujus rei ex aliqua, re (Cic., Fam., 6, 16). To date anything too far back, aliquid longius repetere: further back than is necessary, aliquid longius repetere, quam res postulat.
date
INTR., initium capere: incipere: coepisse: anything will date from to-day, hodiernus dies initium alicujus rei erit (Tac., Agric., 30): anything dates from such a time or event, duco initia alicujus rei ex aliqua re: fables do not date from aesop, fabulas originem non ab aesopo accipiunt (Quint.).
Quick answer
- What is the Latin word for date?
- The usual Latin words for “date” are diēs, palmula, palma; also datō, obsolēscō, obsolētus. The right choice depends on the sense; see the distinctions below.
Entry from J. E. Riddle & T. K. Arnold, A Copious and Critical English–Latin Lexicon (rev. C. Anthon, New York: Harper, 1864), digitised by Fergus J. P. Walsh, CC BY-SA 4.0; Latin markup adapted by latindictionary.co.