# locate
## English
### Etymology

Borrowed from Latin locātus, perfect passive participle of locō (“to place”) (see -ate (verb-forming suffix)), from locus (“place”) + -ō (verb-forming suffix). Cognate with French louer; see also local and lieu.

### Pronunciation

* (Received Pronunciation) IPA: /ləʊˈkeɪt/, /ləˈkeɪt/
* (General American) IPA: /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.
    (Can we add an example for this sense?)

#### Derived terms

* co-locate
* delocate
* relocate

#### Related terms

* allocate
* allocation
* collocate
* couch
* delocate
* local
* locality
* localization
* localize
* location
* locator
* locus

#### Translations

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- :
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### Anagrams

* Alecto, acetol, coleta

## Italian
### Etymology 1
#### Verb

locate
* inflection of locare:
** second-person plural present indicative
** 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