dater

English

Etymology

Etymology tree

English date

Proto-Indo-European *-yósder.

Proto-Italic *-āsjos

Latin -āriusnom.

Latin -āriusbor.

Proto-Germanic *-ārijaz

Proto-West Germanic *-ārī

Old English -ere

Middle English -ere

English -er

English dater

From date + -er.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈdeɪtə(ɹ)/

• Audio (Southern England):

  (file)

• Homophone: data (one pronunciation)
• Rhymes: -eɪtə(ɹ)

Noun

dater (plural daters)

1. One who dates.
   • 2016, Michelle F. Wright, Identity, Sexuality, and Relationships among Emerging Adults in the Digital Age:

     Strategic presentation is a challenging issue for many online daters, of whom 22% have asked someone else to help them create or review their profile […]

2. A date-stamping device.

Derived terms

• e-dater

Anagrams

• E-tard, adret, derat, drate, rated, tared, trade, tread

Danish

Verb

dater

1. present of date

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /da.te/
• Homophones: datai, daté, datée, datées, datés, datez

• Audio:

  (file)

• Audio (France (Lyon)):

  (file)

• Audio (France (Somain)):

  (file)

Verb

dater

1. to date, to add a date onto something
2. to date (de from)

   Ce fossile date de la fin de la Crétacé. ― This fossil dates from the end of the Cretaceous.

Conjugation

Conjugation of dater (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	dater
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	datant /da.tɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		daté /da.te/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	date /dat/	dates /dat/	date /dat/	datons /da.tɔ̃/	datez /da.te/	datent /dat/
	imperfect	datais /da.tɛ/	datais /da.tɛ/	datait /da.tɛ/	dations /da.tjɔ̃/	datiez /da.tje/	dataient /da.tɛ/
	past historic2	datai /da.te/	datas /da.ta/	data /da.ta/	datâmes /da.tam/	datâtes /da.tat/	datèrent /da.tɛʁ/
	future	daterai /da.tʁe/	dateras /da.tʁa/	datera /da.tʁa/	daterons /da.tʁɔ̃/	daterez /da.tʁe/	dateront /da.tʁɔ̃/
	conditional	daterais /da.tʁɛ/	daterais /da.tʁɛ/	daterait /da.tʁɛ/	daterions /da.tə.ʁjɔ̃/	dateriez /da.tə.ʁje/	dateraient /da.tʁɛ/
(compound tenses)	present perfect	present indicative of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect	imperfect indicative of avoir + past participle
	past anterior2	past historic of avoir + past participle
	future perfect	future of avoir + past participle
	conditional perfect	conditional of avoir + past participle
subjunctive		que je (j’)	que tu	qu’il, qu’elle	que nous	que vous	qu’ils, qu’elles
(simple tenses)	present	date /dat/	dates /dat/	date /dat/	dations /da.tjɔ̃/	datiez /da.tje/	datent /dat/
	imperfect2	datasse /da.tas/	datasses /da.tas/	datât /da.ta/	datassions /da.ta.sjɔ̃/	datassiez /da.ta.sje/	datassent /da.tas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	date /dat/	—	datons /da.tɔ̃/	datez /da.te/	—
compound		—	simple imperative of avoir + past participle	—	simple imperative of avoir + past participle	simple imperative of avoir + past participle	—
1 The French gerund is usable only with the preposition en.
2 In less formal writing or speech, these tenses may be found to have been replaced in the following way: past historic → present perfect past anterior → pluperfect imperfect subjunctive → present subjunctive pluperfect subjunctive → past subjunctive (Christopher Kendris [1995], Master the Basics: French, pp. 77, 78, 79, 81).

Derived terms

• susdaté

Further reading

• “dater”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012

Anagrams

• tarde, tardé, trade, tradé

Norwegian Bokmål

Verb

dater

1. imperative of datere

Swedish

Noun

dater

1. indefinite plural of date

Anagrams

• retad

Walloon

Etymology

From date +‎ -er.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /da.te/

Verb

dater

1. to date, to add a date to something