Datum

Borrowed from Latin datum.

• IPA^(key): /ˈdaːtʊm/

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• Hyphenation: Da‧tum

Datum n (strong, genitive Datums, plural Daten)

1. date
2. datum, a fact, a piece of information about something

• Datenbank f
• Datenschutz m
• Datenspeicher m
• Eckdaten f
• Messdaten f

• “Datum” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache
• “Datum” in Uni Leipzig: Wortschatz-Lexikon
• “Datum” in Duden online
• Datum on the German Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^de
• “Datum” in Deutsches Wörterbuch von Jacob und Wilhelm Grimm, 16 vols., Leipzig 1854–1961.

Borrowed from Ancient Greek Δάτον (Dáton).

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈda.tũː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈd̪aː.t̪um]

Datum n sg (genitive Datī); second declension

1. A town of Macedonia famous for its goldmines

Second-declension noun (neuter), with locative, singular only.

• “Datum”, in William Smith, editor (1854, 1857), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography, volume 1 & 2, London: Walton and Maberly

From German Datum.

• IPA^(key): [ˈdaːtum]

Datum m (plural Datumer or Datumen or Daten)

1. date (specific day of the calendar)

   Et ass net laang hier, mee de geneeën Datum weess ech net méi.

   It’s not long ago, but I don’t know the exact date anymore.

   Meng nei Auer weist d’Zäit an och den Datum un.

   My new watch displays both the time and date.

• In Luxembourgish, the form Daten is chiefly a plurale tantum meaning “data”, but it also occurs in this sense, albeit it rarely.