Old-fashioned or out of current style; showing signs of age or belonging to a past era. Can also mean marked with a date or having gone on romantic dates.
From Latin 'datum' meaning 'given', through Old French 'date'. The temporal meaning developed because dates mark when something was 'given' or recorded. The 'old-fashioned' sense emerged in the 20th century.
The word 'date' for romantic encounters comes from American slang of the 1890s, originally meaning any social appointment. The fruit called a date gets its name from Greek 'daktylos' (finger) because of its shape, showing how the same English word can have completely unrelated etymologies.
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