collocate

See also: colocate

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin collocatum, supine of collocō. Doublet of couch.

Pronunciation

• (verb)
  • (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈkɒləkeɪt/

  • Audio (Southern England):

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  • (US) IPA^(key): /ˈkɑləkeɪt/
• (noun)
  • (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈkɒləkət/

  • Audio (Southern England):

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  • (US) IPA^(key): /ˈkɑləkət/

Verb

collocate (third-person singular simple present collocates, present participle collocating, simple past and past participle collocated)

1. (linguistics, translation studies) (said of certain words) To be often used together, form a collocation; for example strong collocates with tea.
2. To arrange or occur side by side. (Can we add an example for this sense?)
3. (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

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

• collocability
• collocatable
• uncollocated

 

Translations

linguistics: to be often used together

• Finnish: kollokoida
• Georgian: შესიტყვება (šesiṭq̇veba), შეესიტყვება (šeesiṭq̇veba)
• Hindi: सहसंबंध करना (sahsambandh karnā)
• Hungarian: kollokál, (gyakran) együtt fordul elő
• Russian: сочета́ться (ru) impf (sočetátʹsja)
• Spanish: coaparecer, coaparir, coaparatar

arrange side by side

• Bulgarian: нареждам (bg) (nareždam), поставям едно до друго (postavjam edno do drugo)
• Dutch: samenzetten (nl), bijeenzetten
• Finnish: laittaa rinnakkain
• German: zusammentragen (de), unterbringen (de), angliedern (de), zusammenstellen (de), vergesellschaften (de), verbinden (de), kombinieren (de)
• Hindi: (rhetorics) संस्थिति करना (sansthiti karnā) (to juxtapose)
• Welsh: trefnu (cy)

occur side by side

• Bulgarian: намирам се един до друг (namiram se edin do drug)
• Dutch: samenstaan, bijeenstaan
• Finnish: esiintyä rinnakkain

Noun

collocate (plural collocates)

1. (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, →DOI, 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

collocate (not comparable)

1. (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

Etymology 1

Verb

collocate

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

Etymology 2

Participle

collocate f pl

1. feminine plural of collocato

Latin

Verb

collocāte

1. second-person plural present active imperative of collocō