Meaning

verb pass from physical life and lose all bodily attributes and functions necessary to sustain life

noun a small cube with 1 to 6 spots on the six faces; used in gambling to generate random numbers

noun a device used for shaping metal

originFrom Middle English dee, from Old French de (Modern French dé), from Latin datum, from datus (“given”), the past participle of dō (“to give”), from Proto-Indo-European *deh₃- (“to lay out, to spread out”). Doublet of datum. Replaced Old English tasul, tesul (“die”), from Latin tessella (“die, cube”).

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