date
noun
- “she asked how to avoid kissing at the end of a date”
verb
Origin
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".
Phrases
- angel date
- bear date
- best before date
- best-before date
- best-by date
- blackout date
- blind date
- catch a date
- Chinese date
- date back
- date bread
- date fish
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