A compound of data + base
Proto-Indo-European *deh₃- ‘give’
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Proto-Italic *didō ‘to give’
Latin dō ‘to give’
Latin datum ‘that is given’
Latin data
English data
Proto-Indo-European *gʷem- ‘to come’
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Ancient Greek βᾰ́σῐς ‘stepping’
Latin basis ‘a pedestal’
Old French base
Middle English base ‘a foundation or base’
English base
Today it means
noun A collection of (usually) organized information in a regular structure, usually but not necessarily in a machine-readable format accessible by a computer.
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Etymograph / database
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