Noun: date
Sample Sentences
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We made a nice cake from dates.
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There were a few dates planted around the house.
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The bullet took the middle finger of his right hand clean off […]. ‘He sure won't be sticking that finger up his date again,’ said Max. [1996, Peter Doyle, Get Rich Quick:]
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Black Superman could kiss his date, the little faggot. [2018, Melissa Lucashenko, Too Much Lip, University of Queensland Press, published 2023, page 88:]
Nouns inflected like date
soldier's woundwort,
Nicosian,
whopper,
greypate,
tactile sign language,
chronotrope,
Rosie Lee,
dissentient,
photoinactivator,
sulphonediimine,
coastal waterfall,
residuary devise,
bituminization,
nitrosonaphthol,
smṛiti,
geosphere,
backscreen,
mensuralist,
flocculate,
flocculant, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
From Middle English date, from Old French date, datil, datille, from Latin dactylus (likely via Old Provençal datil), from Ancient Greek δάκτυλος (dáktulos, “finger”) (from the resemblance of the date to a human finger), probably a folk-etymological alteration of a word from a Semitic source such as Arabic دَقَل (daqal, “variety of date palm”) or Hebrew דֶּקֶל (deqel, “date palm”). Doublet of dactyl and dactylus. Displaced native Old English fingeræppel, literally "finger-apple". See: Middle English Nouns '
date', Latin Nouns '
dactylus', Ancient Greek Nouns '
δάκτυλος'.
Verbs referencing "date"
Dutch Nouns
date, Norwegian Bokmål Nouns
date, Norwegian Nynorsk Nouns
date, Dutch Nouns
datum, Finnish Nouns
deitti, Swedish Nouns
dejt.