## Meanings
1. The particular day, month, and year when something happens.
2. A romantic meeting arranged in advance.
3. A person you go on a romantic meeting with.
4. To have a romantic relationship with someone over a period of time.

## Examples
- What is the date of your birthday?
- They went on their first date to the cinema.
- He brought his date to the wedding.
- They have been dating for almost a year.

## Synonyms
- see

## Derived Forms
- airdate
- antedate
- backdate
- birthdate
- carbon-date
- crewdate
- crossdate
- cyberdate
- date-rape
- date-rapist
- date-time
- dateable

## Related Forms
- calendar
- courtship
- sabbath
- woo

## Roots and Affixes
- Root: date
- Root: dactylus
- Root: δάκτυλος
- Root: دَقَل
- Root: דֶּקֶל

## 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.

## AI Etymology
date comes 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. Current senses include The particular day, month, and year when something happens and A romantic meeting arranged in advance. English relatives and later formations include airdate, antedate, backdate, calendar, courtship.

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