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)
- (noun)
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; to station.
- 1548, Edward Hall, The Union of the Two Noble and Illustre Families of Lancastre and Yorke:
- to marſhall and collocate in order his battayles
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.
- 1631, Francis [Bacon], “X. Century.”, in Sylua Syluarum: Or A Naturall Historie. In Ten Centuries. […], 3rd edition, 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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