collocate
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See also: colocate
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from Latin collocatum, supine of collocō. Doublet of couch.
Pronunciation
[edit]- (verb)
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈkɒləkeɪt/
Audio (Southern England): (file) - (US) IPA(key): /ˈkɑləkeɪt/
- (noun)
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈkɒləkət/
Audio (Southern England): (file) - (US) IPA(key): /ˈkɑləkət/
Verb
[edit]collocate (third-person singular simple present collocates, present participle collocating, simple past and past participle collocated)
- (linguistics, translation studies) (said of certain words) To be often used together, form a collocation; for example strong collocates with tea.
- To arrange or occur side by side. (Can we add an example for this sense?)
- (obsolete, transitive) To set or place or station in the same place as something else
- 1548, Edward Hall, The Union of the Two Noble and Illustre Families of Lancastre and Yorke:
- to marſhall and collocate in order his battayles
- 1600s, Cornelius a Lapide, Commentaries in Sacred Scripture,Tomus IX, p.35:
- that S. Peter will have transferred from his episcopate of Antioch to Rome, and in Rome the Church with the episcopate, the primacy likewise itself, and himself the rock of faith and the Church to have been constituted and collocated
Usage notes
[edit]Do not confuse collocate with collate, even though both words' meanings involve themes of bringing things together (i.e., putting things near each other, and arranging them in an order). (Thus also with collocation and collation.)
Derived terms
[edit]Translations
[edit]linguistics: to be often used together
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arrange side by side
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occur side by side
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Noun
[edit]collocate (plural collocates)
- (linguistics) A component word of a collocation; a word that collocates with another.
- 2018, Clarence Green, James Lambert, “Advancing disciplinary literacy through English for academic purposes: Discipline-specific wordlists, collocations and word families for eight secondary subjects”, in Journal of English for Academic Purposes, volume 35, , page 109:
- A list of collocations to accompany the SVL words providing their important lexico-grammatical associations could therefore be a useful supplementary resource. Thus, we took an extra step not present in previously developed academic wordlists and created lists of each word's discipline-specific collocates.
Adjective
[edit]collocate (not comparable)
- (obsolete) Set; placed.
- 1627 (indicated as 1626), Francis [Bacon], “X. Century.”, in Sylua Syluarum: Or A Naturall Historie. In Ten Centuries. […], London: […] William Rawley […]; [p]rinted by J[ohn] H[aviland] for William Lee […], →OCLC:
- of that creature you must take the parts wherein that virtue chiefly is collocate
Italian
[edit]Etymology 1
[edit]Verb
[edit]collocate
- inflection of collocare:
Etymology 2
[edit]Participle
[edit]collocate f pl
Latin
[edit]Verb
[edit]collocāte
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