locate

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin locātus, past participle of loco (“to place”), from locus (“place”).

Pronunciation

(Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ləʊˈkeɪt/, /ləˈkeɪt/
(General American) IPA^(key): /ˈloʊkeɪt/, /loʊˈkeɪt/
Audio (US): (file)
Rhymes: -eɪt
Hyphenation: lo‧cate

Verb

locate (third-person singular simple present locates, present participle locating, simple past and past participle located)

(transitive) To place; to set in a particular spot or position.
- 1881, Brooke Foss Westcott, The New Testament in the Original Greek:
  The captives and emigrants whom he brought with him were located in the trans-Tiberine quarter.
- 2013 June 22, “T time”, in The Economist, volume 407, number 8841, page 68:
  The ability to shift profits to low-tax countries by locating intellectual property in them, which is then licensed to related businesses in high-tax countries, is often assumed to be the preserve of high-tech companies.
(transitive) To find out where something is located.
- 2013 May-June, Kevin Heng, “Why Does Nature Form Exoplanets Easily?”, in American Scientist, volume 101, number 3, page 184:
  In the past two years, NASA’s Kepler Space Telescope has located nearly 3,000 exoplanet candidates ranging from sub-Earth-sized minions to gas giants that dwarf our own Jupiter. Their densities range from that of styrofoam to iron.
- 1920, Mary Roberts Rinehart, Avery Hopwood, chapter I, in The Bat: A Novel from the Play (Dell Book; 241), New York, N.Y.: Dell Publishing Company, →OCLC, page 01:
  The Bat—they called him the Bat. […]. He […] played a lone hand, […]. Most lone wolves had a moll at any rate—women were their ruin—but if the Bat had a moll, not even the grapevine telegraph could locate her.
(transitive) To designate the site or place of; to define the limits of (Note: the designation may be purely descriptive: it need not be prescriptive.)
The council must locate the new hospital

to locate a mining claim

to locate (the land granted by) a land warrant
- 1862-1892, Herbert Spencer, System of Synthetic Philosophy
  That part of the body in which the sense of touch is located.
(intransitive, colloquial) To place oneself; to take up one's residence; to settle.
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Derived terms

co-locate

Related terms

Translations

to place; to set in a particular spot or position

Azerbaijani: yerləşdirmək (az)
Finnish: sijoittaa (fi)
German: orten (de)
Greek: εντοπίζω (el) (entopízo)
Hungarian: helyez (hu), elhelyez (hu)
Malayalam: സ്ഥാപിക്കുക (ml) (sthāpikkuka)
Portuguese: localizar (pt)
Romanian: poziționa (ro)
Russian: помести́ть (ru) (pomestítʹ)
Serbo-Croatian: smestiti (sh), smjestiti (sh)
Spanish: ubicar (es)
Swedish: placera (sv)
Ukrainian: розташо́вувати (roztašóvuvaty)

to learn where something is located

Danish: lokalisere
Egyptian:

(gmj)
Hungarian: talál (hu), megtalál (hu), lel (hu), fellel (hu), felderít (hu), előkerít (hu)
Malayalam: സ്ഥാപിക്കുക (ml) (sthāpikkuka)
Russian: обнаружить (ru) (obnaružitʹ)
Tocharian B: kälp-

designate the site or place of

Danish: lokalisere
Finnish: sijoittaa (fi)
French: localiser (fr)
Hungarian: helyét/helyzetét/hollétét megállapítja/meghatározza
Italian: localizzare (it)
Maori: tautohu pūwāhi
Polish: namierzać impf, lokalizować impf
Portuguese: localizar (pt)
Spanish: ubicar (es), localizar (es)

(intransitive) to place oneself; to take up one's residence; to settle

French: se poser (fr)
Ido: lok-izar
Spanish: asentar (es) (pronominal)

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Translations to be checked

French: ^{(please verify)} situer (fr), ^{(please verify)} placer (fr)
Swedish: ^{(please verify)} placera (sv) (1)

Anagrams

Alecto, acetol, coleta

Italian

Etymology 1

Verb

locate

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

Etymology 2

Participle

locate f pl

feminine plural of locato

Anagrams

celato, colate, cotale

Latin

Participle

locāte

vocative masculine singular of locātus