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I found the following in the etymology section for "date" in the Oxford English Dictionary.
[a. F. date, OF. also datte (13th c. in Littré) = Pr., Sp., It. data fem.:—L. data fem. sing. (or neuter) of datus given. In ancient L., the date of a letter was expressed thus ‘Dabam Romæ prid. Kal. Apr.’, i.e. ‘I gave or delivered (this) at Rome on the 31st March’, for which the later formula was ‘Data Romæ, given at Rome’, etc. Hence data the first word of the formula...
neuter of datus
I found the following in the etymology section for "date" in the Oxford English Dictionary.
[a. F. date, OF. also datte (13th c. in Littré) = Pr., Sp., It. data fem.:—L. data fem. sing. (or neuter) of datus given. In ancient L., the date of a letter was expressed thus ‘Dabam Romæ prid. Kal. Apr.’, i.e. ‘I gave or delivered (this) at Rome on the 31st March’, for which the later formula was ‘Data Romæ, given at Rome’, etc. Hence data the first word of the formula...
neuter of datus