English
datagram
From data + -gram.
A compound of data + -gram
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
Today it means
noun A packet of data passed across a network.
Sources
Sources: Wiktionary, “datagram”. By Wiktionary contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0, via kaikki.org (dump of Oct 3 2026); text adapted and restructured. Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word. License.
Etymograph / datagram