collocate

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

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

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

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  • (US) IPA^(key): /ˈkɑləkət/

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; 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

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.

collocate (not comparable)

1. (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

collocate

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

collocate f pl

1. feminine plural of collocato

collocāte

1. second-person plural present active imperative of collocō