Dating
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Middle English: via Old French from medieval Latin data, feminine past participle of dare ‘give’; from the Latin formula used in dating letters, data (epistola) ‘(letter) given or delivered’, to record a particular time or place.
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dating (n.)
"act or practice of having (romantic) dates," by 1939, verbal noun from date (v.2).
