Etymology Borrowed from Latin collocatum, supine of collocō. Doublet of couch.
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Human sciences, Linguistics, Sciences, Translation studies (said of certain words) To be often used together, form a collocation; for example strong collocates with tea.
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To arrange or occur side by side.
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Obsolete To set or place or station in the same place as something else.
to marſhall and collocate in order his battayles1548, Edward Hall, The Union of the Two Noble and Illustre Families of Lancastre and Yorke:
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 collocated1600s, Cornelius a Lapide, Commentaries in Sacred Scripture,Tomus IX, p.35:
Etymology Borrowed from Latin collocatum, supine of collocō. Doublet of couch.
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Human sciences, Linguistics, Sciences A component word of a collocation; a word that collocates with another.
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.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:
collocate
adj
Etymology Borrowed from Latin collocatum, supine of collocō. Doublet of couch.
of that creature you must take the parts wherein that virtue chiefly is collocate1627 (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: