Etymology

Borrowed from LatinCategory:English terms borrowed from Latin#COLLOCATECategory:English terms derived from Latin#COLLOCATE collocatum, supine of collocō. Doublet of couchCategory:English doublets#COLLOCATE.

Pronunciation

• (verb)
  • (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈkɒləkeɪt/Category:English 3-syllable words#COLLOCATECategory:English terms with IPA pronunciation#COLLOCATE

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  • (US) IPA^(key): /ˈkɑləkeɪt/Category:English 3-syllable words#COLLOCATECategory:English terms with IPA pronunciation#COLLOCATE
• (noun)
  • (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈkɒləkət/Category:English 3-syllable words#COLLOCATECategory:English terms with IPA pronunciation#COLLOCATE

  • Audio (Southern England):

    (file)

    Category:English terms with audio pronunciation#COLLOCATE
  • (US) IPA^(key): /ˈkɑləkət/Category:English 3-syllable words#COLLOCATECategory:English terms with IPA pronunciation#COLLOCATE

Verb

collocate (third-person singular simple present collocates, present participle collocating, simple past and past participle collocated)Category:English lemmas#COLLOCATECategory:English verbs#COLLOCATECategory:English entries with incorrect language header#COLLOCATECategory:Pages with entries#COLLOCATECategory:Pages with 3 entries#COLLOCATE

1. (linguisticsCategory:en:Linguistics#COLLOCATE, translation studiesCategory:en:Translation studies#COLLOCATE) (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?)Category:Requests for example sentences in English#COLLOCATE

   Synonym: co-locate

3. (obsoleteCategory:English terms with obsolete senses#COLLOCATE, transitiveCategory:English transitive verbs#COLLOCATE) To set or place or station in the same place as something else.

   Synonym: co-locate

   • 1548, Edward Hall, The Union of the Two Noble and Illustre Families of Lancastre and Yorke:

     to marſhall and collocate in order his battayles

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   • 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

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Noun

collocate (plural collocates)Category:English lemmas#COLLOCATECategory:English nouns#COLLOCATECategory:English countable nouns#COLLOCATECategory:English entries with incorrect language header#COLLOCATECategory:Pages with entries#COLLOCATECategory:Pages with 3 entries#COLLOCATE

1. (linguisticsCategory:en:Linguistics#COLLOCATE) 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.

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Adjective

collocate (not comparable)Category:English lemmas#COLLOCATECategory:English adjectives#COLLOCATECategory:English uncomparable adjectives#COLLOCATECategory:English entries with incorrect language header#COLLOCATECategory:Pages with entries#COLLOCATECategory:Pages with 3 entries#COLLOCATE

1. (obsoleteCategory:English terms with obsolete senses#COLLOCATE) 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

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Etymology 1

Etymology 2

Verb

collocāteCategory:Latin non-lemma forms#COLLOCATECategory:Latin verb forms#COLLOCATECategory:Latin entries with incorrect language header#COLLOCATECategory:Pages with entries#COLLOCATECategory:Pages with 3 entries#COLLOCATE

1. second-person plural present active imperative of collocō