data

Data comes from Latin data, the nominative plural of datum, meaning 'that is given' — itself the neuter past participle of dō, 'to give.'

The word entered English as the plural of things given or granted, and only later settled into its modern sense of facts and figures, though the facts here trace only its Latin roots, not that later shift in detail.

Data is a doublet of date, the two words having split off from the same Latin root while taking different paths into English.