Where does “Dateiformat” come from?
Dateiformat (German) comes from German Datei, from German Daten, from English date, from Middle English date, from Old French date, from Latin data, from Latin datum, from Latin datus — to give.
Dateiformat (German): file format
Definitions
- file format
Ancestry of “Dateiformat”, step by step
Dateiformat traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via German Datei
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | German | Datei | file |
| 2 | German | Daten | data, plural of Datum |
| 3 | English | date | The fruit of the date palm, "Phoenix... |
| 4 | Middle English | date | — |
| 5 | Old French | date | date point in time |
| 6 | Latin | data | nominative feminine singular of datus; nominative... |
| 7 | Latin | datum | gift, present; accusative supine of dō;... |
| 8 | Latin | datus | given; offered; yielded |
| 9 | Latin | dāre | — |
| 10 | Proto-Italic | didō | give |
| 11 | Proto-Indo-European | dédeh₃ti | to be giving |
| 12 | Proto-Indo-European | deh₃- | to give |