Where does “dates” come from?
dates (Portuguese) comes from Portuguese datar, from Portuguese data, from Latin data, from Latin datum, from Latin datus, from Latin dāre, from Proto-Italic didō, from Proto-Indo-European dédeh₃ti — to give.
dates (Portuguese): inflection of datar:
## second-person singular...
Definitions
- inflection of datar:
## second-person singular...
Ancestry of “dates”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
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| 1 | Portuguese | datar | to date |
| 2 | Portuguese | data | date; a large quantity |
| 3 | Latin | data | nominative feminine singular of datus; nominative... |
| 4 | Latin | datum | gift, present; accusative supine of dō;... |
| 5 | Latin | datus | given; offered; yielded |
| 6 | Latin | dāre | — |
| 7 | Proto-Italic | didō | give |
| 8 | Proto-Indo-European | dédeh₃ti | to be giving |
| 9 | Proto-Indo-European | deh₃- | to give |