ubicate

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English

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Etymology

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Compare ubication. Ultimately from ubi (where).

Pronunciation

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Verb

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ubicate (third-person singular simple present ubicates, present participle ubicating, simple past and past participle ubicated)

  1. (intransitive, rare) To take up residence (in a place); to lodge (somewhere).
    • 1934, America, L, page 20/1:
      I am much intrigued as to whether that word Serendipity [] was found in some old dictionary or is a reaction to the Anchoret’s ubicating in a hen house at Auriesville.
  2. (transitive, rare) To locate; to find and specify the location of.
    • 2003, Paul Proulx, “Review of Desano Grammar: Studies in the Languages of Colombia 6”, in International Journal of American Linguistics, LXIX, № 1, pages 100-102:
      [The text] contains a great deal of information in a relatively few pages. The introduction begins by ubicating the Desano people and providing a very brief set of ethnographic comments. They live on the Vaupés river in Colombia []
    • For quotations using this term, see Citations:ubicate.

Italian

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Etymology 1

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Verb

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ubicate

  1. inflection of ubicare:
    1. second-person plural present indicative
    2. second-person plural imperative

Etymology 2

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Participle

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ubicate f pl

  1. feminine plural of ubicato

Spanish

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Verb

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ubicate

  1. second-person singular voseo imperative of ubicar combined with te