The word data comes from the Latin word dare, “to give.” In later Latin, the word data came to be used alone to stand for the date, and it came into English as date.

Is it a hangout or a date?

If youre with a group of other people for the entire time, such as the other persons friend group, youre likely just hanging out. If you met via online dating through a dating app or an online dating website and this person asked you out after flirting for a couple of weeks, again, its likely a date.