data

• D (electronics)

Borrowed from Latin data, nominative plural of datum (“that is given”), neuter past participle of dō (“to give”). Doublet of date.

enPR: dät'ə, Rhymes: -ɑːtə

adaptation of original Latin pronunciation

most commonly in Australia, New Zealand and South Africa; formal UK pronunciation

• Homophone: darter (non-rhotic)
• IPA^(key): /ˈdɑːtə/ (Received Pronunciation)
• IPA^(key): /ɖɑʈɑ/ (Indic)
• IPA^(key): [ˈdäːɾə] (General Australian, New Zealand)

  • Audio (Australia):

    (file)

enPR: dā'tə, Rhymes: -eɪtə

most commonly in the UK, US and Ireland

less commonly in Australia, New Zealand and South Africa

• Homophone: dater (non-rhotic)
• IPA^(key): /ˈdeɪtə/ (Received Pronunciation, General American)
• IPA^(key): /ˈdɛjtə/ (Standard Southern British)
• IPA^(key): /ɖeʈɑ/ (Indic)
• IPA^(key): [ˈdeɪɾə] (US, flapping)

  • Audio (US):

    (file)

enPR: dăt'ə, Rhymes: -ætə

spelling pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈdætə/ (US, Canada, Ireland)

  • Audio (US, flapping); [ˈdæɾə]:

    (file)

• IPA^(key): /ɖaʈɑ/ (Indic)

data

2. plural of datum

   Synonym: data points

   Holonym: data set

   These data show that the new policy is not working as intended.

   • 1692, William Molyneux, Edmund Halley, Dioptrica nova‎^[4], London: Benj. Tooke, page 100:

     First from these Data, let us obtain the Breadth of the Glass e z

   • 2009, J. David Cummins, Olivier Mahul, “CAT Bonds and Other Risk-Linked Securities: State of the Market and Recent Developments”, in Catastrophe Risk Financing in Developing Countries: Principles for Public Intervention (World Bank e-Library)‎^[5], World Bank Publications, →ISBN, page 226:

     In the past, the CAT bond market has been criticized for lack of investor interest. However, that assessment is now outdated—recent data suggest broad market interest in CAT bonds among institutional investors. Figure A9.8 shows the percentage of new issue volume by investor type in 1999 and 2007. In 1999, insurers and reinsurers were very prominent on both the supply and demand sides of the market and were among the leading investors in the bonds, accounting for 55 percent of the market. If insurers and reinsurers are on both sides of the market, the market cannot be said to have attracted very much new capital into the financing of catastrophic risk. However, by 2007, insurers and reinsurers accounted for only 7 percent of demand, suggesting that substantial external capital has been attracted to the market. Dedicated CAT funds accounted for 55 percent of the market in 2007, and money managers and hedge funds accounted for 36 percent. The declining spreads and increasingly broad market interest in the bonds suggest that the bonds are attractive to investors and are playing an increasingly important role relative to conventional reinsurance.

data (uncountable)

2. (collective, computing) A representation of information in a computer (as symbols, quantities, sound, images or videos) which is stored, processed or transmitted in the form of electrical signals, records on magnetic tape or punched cards, etc.

   Data can be sent through email.

3. (collective) Material recorded and known or assumed as facts and used as a basis for reasoning, discussion, or calculation, represented especially in the form of numbers, and is usually structured (such as statistics).

   Near-synonyms: dataset, data set, data points

   This data shows that X is correlated with Y.

   • 1992, Rudolf M[athias] Schuster, The Hepaticae and Anthocerotae of North America: East of the Hundredth Meridian, volume V, Chicago, Ill.: Field Museum of Natural History, →ISBN, page vii:

     With fresh material, taxonomic conclusions are leavened by recognition that the material examined reflects the site it occupied; a herbarium packet gives one only a small fraction of the data desirable for sound conclusions. Herbarium material does not, indeed, allow one to extrapolate safely: what you see is what you get […]

   • 2013 June 22, “Snakes and ladders”, in The Economist, volume 407, number 8841, page 76:

     Risk is everywhere. […] For each one there is a frighteningly precise measurement of just how likely it is to jump from the shadows and get you. “The Norm Chronicles” […] aims to help data-phobes find their way through this blizzard of risks.

   • 2022 July 20, Nikhil Sonnad, Quartz‎^[6]:

     When Hill wrote his history of “dude,” understanding such trends in slang was close to impossible. There simply weren’t enough data. Not so today. To uncover the hidden shape of vocative use, linguists can draw on one of the best datasets the English language has ever had: Twitter.

     countable plural

5. (mobile telephony) Ellipsis of mobile data (“digital information transmitted using the cellular telephone network rather than Wi-Fi”).

   run out of data

• The word data was traditionally seen as plural of datum, but in recent usage, it has been shifting to being a mass noun.^[1][2] Some style guides still prescribe the count sense, with certain exceptions given (e.g., big data).
• The definition of data in the computing context is from an international standard vocabulary and is meant to distinguish data from information. However, this distinction is often ignored by the computing profession.^[3]

• big data
• metadata
• primary data
• raw data

• → Bengali: ডাটা (ḍaṭa), ডেটা (ḍeṭa)
• → Turkish: data

• “data, n.”, in OED Online ⁠, Oxford: Oxford University Press, launched 2000.
• “data”, in Merriam-Webster.com Online Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 1996–present.

• data on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

• ADAT, TADA, a tad, adat, ta-da, tada

Cognate with Saho data.

• IPA^(key): /daˈta/ [dʌˈtʌ]
• Hyphenation: da‧ta

datá

1. (stative) be black

Conjugation of data (type III verb)
		1st singular	2nd singular	3rd singular		1st plural	2nd plural	3rd plural
				m	f
present indicative I	V-affirmative	datiyóh	datitóh	datáh	datáh	datinóh	datitoonúh	datoonúh
	N-affirmative	datiyó	datitó	datá	datá	datinó	datitón	datón
	negative	mádatiyo	mádatito	mádata	mádata	mádatino	mádatiton	mádaton
present indicative II		affirmative present indicative I + imperfective of én
past indicative I		dátuk + perfective of én
past indicative II		dátuk + perfective of sugé
present potential	affirmative	datiyóm takkéh	datitóm takkéh	datám takkéh	datám takkéh	datinóm takkéh	datitoonúm takkéh	datoonúm takkéh
past conditional	affirmative	dátuk + past conditional of sugé
		-h converb	-k converb	-in(n)uh converb	infinitive
		dátih	dátuk	datínnuh	datíyya

• qadó (“be white”)

• E. M. Parker; R. J. Hayward (1985), “data”, in An Afar-English-French dictionary (with Grammatical Notes in English), University of London, →ISBN
• Marie-Claude Simeone-Senelle; Mohamed Hassan Kamil (August 2013), “Gender, Number and Agreement in Afar (Cushitic language)”, in 43rd Colloquium on African Languages and Linguistics‎^[7], Leiden: Leiden University, page 2
• Mohamed Hassan Kamil (2015), L’afar: description grammaticale d’une langue couchitique (Djibouti, Erythrée et Ethiopie)‎^[8], Paris: Université Sorbonne Paris Cité (doctoral thesis), page 307

Inherited from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *dataʀ. Doublet of rata.

• IPA^(key): /datə/
• Hyphenation: da‧ta

data (Balinese script ᬤᬢ)

1. flat

   Synonym: rata

• “data”, in Balinese–Indonesian Dictionary [Kamus Bahasa Bali–Indonesia] (in Balinese), Denpasar, Indonesia: The Linguistic Center of Bali Province [Balai Bahasa Provinsi Bali].

Borrowed from Late Latin data < Latin datus.

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic) [ˈda.tə]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [ˈda.ta]

• Audio:

  (file)

data f (plural dates)

1. date (specific moment in time)

• Alcover, Antoni Maria; Moll, Francesc de Borja (1963), “data”, in Diccionari català-valencià-balear (in Catalan)
• “data” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “data”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2026
• “data”, in Diccionari de la llengua catalana [Dictionary of the Catalan Language] (in Catalan), second edition, Institute of Catalan Studies [Catalan: Institut d'Estudis Catalans], April 2007

data

1. inflection of datar:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative

• Hyphenation: da‧ta

data

1. installment, partial payment

From English data.

data (Hong Kong Cantonese)

1. data (information)
2. data; mobile data
   1. Internet connection using mobile data, i.e. not using Wi-Fi

      呢個位收data好慢。 [Cantonese, trad.]
      呢个位收data好慢。 [Cantonese, simp.]

      ni¹ go³ wai^6-2 sau¹ dei¹ taa⁴ hou² maan⁶. [Jyutping]

      Receiving mobile data connection is very slow at this spot.

   2. quota or limit of mobile data usage

      爆data [Cantonese]  ―  baau³ dei¹ taa⁴ [Jyutping]  ―  to exceed the mobile data usage limit

      我今個月仲有好多data淨。 [Cantonese, trad.]
      我今个月仲有好多data净。 [Cantonese, simp.]

      ngo⁵ gam¹ go³ jyut⁶ zung⁶ jau⁵ hou² do¹ dei¹ taa⁴ zing⁶. [Jyutping]

      I still have a lot of [my] quota for mobile data usage left for this month.

Borrowed from English data, from Latin data, plural of datum.

data (collective)

1. data

• “data” in Cornish Dictionary / Gerlyver Kernewek, Akademi Kernewek.

• IPA^(key): [ˈdata]

• Audio:

  (file)

data n pl (relational adjective datový)

1. data

   Synonym: údaje

• “data”, in Kartotéka Novočeského lexikálního archivu (in Czech)
• “data”, in Internetová jazyková příručka (in Czech), 2008–2026

data n (singular definite dataet, plural indefinite data)

1. datum, data
2. curriculum vitae, résumé

• Audio:

  (file)

data

1. plural of datum

   Synonym: datums

2. (uncountable) data, information

   Synonym: gegevens

• Though many speakers use data "information" as a new singular rather than as the plural of datum (“data point”), this is generally prescribed against.[9][10][11] This is analogous to media in Dutch, which some speakers treat as a new singular rather than as a plural of medium.

From Latin data.

• IPA^(key): /ˈdɑtɑ/, [ˈdɑ̝t̪ɑ̝]
• Rhymes: -ɑtɑ
• Syllabification^(key): da‧ta
• Hyphenation^(key): da‧ta

data

1. data

• anne (“datum”) (rare)

• “data”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish]‎^[12] (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 2 July 2023

• IPA^(key): /da.ta/

• Audio (France (Brétigny-sur-Orge)):

  (file)

data

1. third-person singular past historic of dater

Cognate with Tagalog hilata.

• IPA^(key): /ˈdata/, [ˈdaː.ta]
• Hyphenation: da‧ta

dáta

1. facing upwards; on one's back

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *da and Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *-ta, an enclitic form of Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *(i-)kita (“we (inclusive), we (dual)”), whence Proto-Austronesian *(i-)kita (“we (inclusive)”). Compare Kankanaey daita (“we (two), you and I”), Pangasinan sikata (“we (two), you and I”), Kapampangan ikata (“we (two), you and I”), Tagalog kata (“we (two), you and I”), Central Bikol kita (“we (inclusive)”), Cebuano kita (“we (inclusive)”), and Maranao sekta (“we (inclusive)”).

• IPA^(key): /daˈta/, [dɐˈta]
• Hyphenation: da‧ta

datá

1. First-person dual absolutive independent pronoun; we (two); us (two); you and I; you and me

   Synonym: sita

   Data laeng ti adda ti kasar ita nga aldaw. ― It is only us two who have a wedding today.

• datdata

From Dutch data, from Latin data.

• (Standard Indonesian) IPA^(key): /ˈdata/ [ˈda.t̪a]
• Rhymes: -ata
• Syllabification: da‧ta

data

1. datum,
   1. a fact known from direct observation
   2. a premise from which conclusions are drawn
2. data,
   1. information, especially in a scientific or computational context, or with the implication that it is organized
   2. recorded observations that are usually presented in a structured format
   3. (computing) a representation of facts or ideas in a formalized manner capable of being communicated or manipulated by some process

• “data”, in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia [Great Dictionary of the Indonesian Language] (in Indonesian), Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016

• IPA^(key): /ˈda.ta/^[1]
• Rhymes: -ata
• Hyphenation: dà‧ta

From Late Latin data, from Latin datus.

data f (plural date)

1. date (“calendar date”)

   la data di oggi ― today's date

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

data

1. inflection of datare:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

data

1. feminine singular of dato

data f (plural dates)

1. date (day number of the month)

• data:
  • (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈda.ta]
  • (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈdaː.ta]
• datā:
  • (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈda.taː]
  • (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈdaː.ta]

data

1. inflection of datus:
   1. nominative/vocative feminine singular
   2. nominative/accusative/vocative neuter plural

datā

1. ablative feminine singular of datus

data

1. nominative/vocative/accusative plural of datum

• "data", in Charles du Fresne du Cange, Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)

Borrowed from Italian data. Expansion from date to data perhaps from English.

• IPA^(key): /ˈdaː.ta/
• Rhymes: -aːta

data f (plural dati)

1. date
2. data

data m

1. sire, father
2. foster father, godfather, guardian

   Synonym: aite

3. sir

This noun needs an inflection-table template.

From Proto-Malayic *datar, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *dataʀ, from Proto-Austronesian *dataʀ.

data

1. flat

From Latin data, plural of datum (“gift, present”), neuter past participle of dō (“to give, offer”), from Proto-Italic *didō (“give”), from Proto-Indo-European *dédeh₃ti (“to be giving”), from *deh₃- (“give”).

data m or n (definite singular dataen or dataet, indefinite plural data, definite plural dataene)

1. data
2. ellipsis of datateknologi

• “data” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

From Latin data, plural of datum.

• IPA^(key): /ˈdɑː.tɑ/

data m or n

1. plural of datum

data m (definite singular dataen, indefinite plural data or dataar or dataer, definite plural dataane or dataene)

1. (plural: data, in the plural or collective and uncountable) data; information, especially in a computational context
2. (plural: dataar or dataer, countable) ellipsis of datamaskin (“computer”)
3. (collective, uncountable) ellipsis of datateknologi (“computer technology”)
5. (collective, uncountable, mobile telephony) ellipsis of mobildata (“mobile data”)

From English date.

• IPA^(key): /²dɛɪ̯.tɑ/

data (present tense datar, past tense data, past participle data, imperative date)

1. a-infinitive form of date

• “data” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

• tada

Learned borrowing from Medieval Latin data.

• IPA^(key): /ˈda.ta/

• Audio:

  (file)

• Rhymes: -ata
• Syllabification: da‧ta

data f

1. date (point of time at which event takes place; a specific day)

• “data”, in Wielki słownik języka polskiego‎^[13] (in Polish), Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• “data”, in Polish dictionaries at PWN‎^[14] (in Polish)

• (Northeast Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈda.ta/

• Audio (Portugal (Porto)):

  (file)

• Rhymes: -atɐ
• Hyphenation: da‧ta

Borrowed from Late Latin data, from Latin datus (“given”). Doublet of dada.

data f (plural datas)

1. date (point of time at which a transaction or event takes place)

   Qual é sua data de nascimento? ― What is your date of birth?

2. (informal) a large quantity

   Uma data de coisas. ― Lots of things.

3. (informal) a lot, a plot of land

   Quero comprar esta data. ― I want to buy this plot of land

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

data

1. inflection of datar:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative

• “data”, in Dicionário Aulete Digital (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2026
• “data”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2026

Borrowed from French dater.

a data (third-person singular present datează, past participle datat) 1st conjugation

1. to date

data f

1. nominative/accusative definite singular of dată

From Proto-Bantu *tààtá.

dātá class 1a (plural bādâtá class 2a)

1. my father
2. my paternal uncle

• so (“your father”)
• se (“his/her father”)
• mama (“my mother”)

• IPA^(key): /ˈdata/ [ˈd̪a.t̪a]
• Rhymes: -ata
• Syllabification: da‧ta

Borrowed from Late Latin data, from Latin datus.

data f (plural datas)

1. date (point of time at which a transaction or event takes place)

   Synonym: (more common) fecha

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

data

1. inflection of datar:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative

• “data”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8.1, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 15 December 2025

• Audio (Kenya):

  (file)

Unadapted borrowing from English data.^[1]

data class IX (plural data class X)

1. data (information, especially in a scientific or computational context)

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

-data (infinitive kudata)

1. to crackle
2. to miss a desired outcome
3. to adhere to something

Conjugation of -data
Positive present -nadata Subjunctive -date Negative -dati Imperative singular data
Infinitives
Positive kudata Negative kutodata
Imperatives
Singular data Plural dateni
Tensed forms
Habitual hudata Positive past positive subject concord + -lidata Negative past negative subject concord + -kudata
Positive present (positive subject concord + -nadata) Singular Plural 1st person ninadata/nadata tunadata 2nd person unadata mnadata 3rd person m-wa(I/II) anadata wanadata other classes positive subject concord + -nadata
Negative present (negative subject concord + -dati) Singular Plural 1st person sidati hatudati 2nd person hudati hamdati 3rd person m-wa(I/II) hadati hawadati other classes negative subject concord + -dati
Positive future positive subject concord + -tadata Negative future negative subject concord + -tadata
Positive subjunctive (positive subject concord + -date) Singular Plural 1st person nidate tudate 2nd person udate mdate 3rd person m-wa(I/II) adate wadate other classes positive subject concord + -date
Negative subjunctive positive subject concord + -sidate Positive present conditional positive subject concord + -ngedata Negative present conditional positive subject concord + -singedata Positive past conditional positive subject concord + -ngalidata Negative past conditional positive subject concord + -singalidata
Gnomic (positive subject concord + -adata) Singular Plural 1st person nadata twadata 2nd person wadata mwadata 3rd person m-wa(I/II) adata wadata m-mi(III/IV) wadata yadata ji-ma(V/VI) ladata yadata ki-vi(VII/VIII) chadata vyadata n(IX/X) yadata zadata u(XI) wadata see n(X) or ma(VI) class ku(XV/XVII) kwadata pa(XVI) padata mu(XVIII) mwadata
Perfect positive subject concord + -medata "Already" positive subject concord + -meshadata "Not yet" negative subject concord + -jadata "If/When" positive subject concord + -kidata "If not" positive subject concord + -sipodata Consecutive kadata / positive subject concord + -kadata Consecutive subjunctive positive subject concord + -kadate
Object concord (indicative positive) Singular Plural 1st person -nidata -tudata 2nd person -kudata -wadata/-kudateni/-wadateni 3rd person m-wa(I/II) -mdata -wadata m-mi(III/IV) -udata -idata ji-ma(V/VI) -lidata -yadata ki-vi(VII/VIII) -kidata -vidata n(IX/X) -idata -zidata u(XI) -udata see n(X) or ma(VI) class ku(XV/XVII) -kudata pa(XVI) -padata mu(XVIII) -mudata Reflexive -jidata
Relative forms General positive (positive subject concord + (object concord) + -data- + relative marker) Singular Plural m-wa(I/II) -dataye -datao m-mi(III/IV) -datao -datayo ji-ma(V/VI) -datalo -datayo ki-vi(VII/VIII) -datacho -datavyo n(IX/X) -datayo -datazo u(XI) -datao see n(X) or ma(VI) class ku(XV/XVII) -datako pa(XVI) -datapo mu(XVIII) -datamo Other forms (subject concord + tense marker + relative marker + (object concord) + -data) Singular Plural m-wa(I/II) -yedata -odata m-mi(III/IV) -odata -yodata ji-ma(V/VI) -lodata -yodata ki-vi(VII/VIII) -chodata -vyodata n(IX/X) -yodata -zodata u(XI) -odata see n(X) or ma(VI) class ku(XV/XVII) -kodata pa(XVI) -podata mu(XVIII) -modata
Some forms not commonly seen in modern Standard Swahili are absent from the table. See Appendix:Swahili verbs for more information.

Borrowed from Latin data, from the plural of datum (“that which is given, information, facts at hand, a date in the calendar”).

The sense ”computer” is a clipping of datamaskin.

• IPA^(key): /²dɑːta/
  • (Central Sweden) IPA^(key): [ˈd̪ɑ̹ː˧˩ˌt̪a˥˩], [ˈd͇ɑ̹ː˧˩ˌt̪a˥˩]
• Hyphenation: da‧ta

data c

1. (uncountable) information, especially encoded information that can be processed by computers
2. (colloquial, proscribed) alternative form of dator (“computer”)

   Det är fel på datan. ― Something's wrong with the computer.

   • 1966, Olof Johannesson (pen name of Hannes Alfvén), Sagan om den stora datamaskinen:

     De första datorna var ju också mycket enkla.

     The first computers were indeed very simple.

• The first definition is rarely inflected, but most often used in its basic form. In the definite form, both neuter (datat) and common gender (datan) forms are used. For the compound indata, Google yields 440,000 hits, but only 2110 for indatan and 1200 for indatat. The Latin singular datum is not used in this sense, because it is already used for ”date (in the calendar)”.
• Swedish lacked a good and short word for computer until dator was proposed in 1967. The colloquial data was used in the 1960s and is still used colloquially today, but is usually proscribed. The form dator is also the plural of data, and the plural definite forms datorerna/datorna are very similar.

• datavirus
• trafikdata

• “data”, in Svensk ordbok [Dictionary of Swedish] (in Swedish)
• “Hur kan man använda data och datan? [How are data and datan used?]”, in Frågelådan, Swedish Language Council, 28 December 2019 (last accessed)

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

data (perfect passive participle)

1. perfect passive participle of didet

• Conway lists this term as an ablative feminine singular form found in an ablative absolute construction
• De Vaan lists this form as a genitive feminine singular

• De Vaan, Michiel (2008), Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN
• Robert Seymour Conway (1897), The Italic Dialects‎^[15] (overall work in English), Cambridge University Press, page 605