ubication
nounUK /juːbɪˈkeɪʃn̩/ · US /jubəˈkeɪʃən/
Etymology
Borrowed from New Latin ubicātiō (“location”) (whence Portuguese ubicação and Spanish ubicación; compare the inflected forms ubicātiōnis, ubicātiōnī, etc.) + -ion. Ubicātiō is derived from Latin ubicātus (“located”) + -iō (suffix forming abstract nouns); while ubicātus is a past participial form of ubicō (“to situate”) (found in British works from the 14th century), from ubi (“where”) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *kʷ- (primary interrogative root)) + -ō (suffix forming regular first-conjugation verbs). By surface analysis, ubicate + -ion (ubicate is probably a back-formation from ubication). Later occurrences are influenced by Spanish ubicación, hence their use chiefly in Spanish contexts.
Archaic, In Spanish contexts The condition or fact of being in, or occupying, a certain place or position; whereness, ubiety; also, a location.
- We conceiue these modifications if the thing, like substances; and…we call them by substantiue names, Whitenesse, Action, Vbication, Duration, &c.1644, Digby, Nat. Soule, v., §9., 400
- Relations, Ubications, Duration, the vulgar Philosophy admits into the list of something.1661, Glanvill, Van Dogm., 101
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- They are accustomed to think that Ubication, or the being in a Place, is but an Accident to a Substance.1699, 39 Art., Burnet, xxviii. (1700), 324:
- Arriaga, who wrote in 1639,…suggests that the board affects the upper weight, which it does not touch, by its ubication, or whereness.1837, Whewell, Hist. Induct. Sci., II., vi., ii., § 5., 45
- The terminus ad quem is already existing, and merely receives a new ubication.1866, T.N. Harper, Peace through Truth, Ser. i., 212
- The constant identity of the ubication and direction of the lines [in Mars] proved their connection with the soil.1892 August 5, Standard:
- Derived terms
- ubicate