donnée

Etymology

Borrowed from French donnée.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈdɒneɪ/

Noun

donnée (plural données)

1. A given; in a literary work, that which is assumed as to characters, situation, etc., as a basis for the plot or story.

   (Can we find and add a quotation of W. E. Henley to this entry?)

   • Saintsbury

     that favourite romance donnée of the heir kept out of his own

   • 1884, Henry James, The Art of Fiction:

     We must grant the artist his subject, his idea, what the French call his donnée; our criticism is applied only to what he makes of it.

   • 1990, Camille Paglia, Sexual Personae:

     The donnée is from Boccaccio's Decameron, where a party of Florentine gentry flee to the countryside to escape the Black Death.

Anagrams

• neoned

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /dɔ.ne/

Verb

donnée

1. feminine singular of the past participle of donner

Noun

donnée f (plural données)

1. (chiefly in the plural) datum, (item of data)

Further reading

• “donnée” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).