accommodate
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *h₂éd
Proto-Italic *ad
Proto-Italic *ad-
Latin ad-
Proto-Indo-European *ḱe?
Proto-Indo-European *ḱóm
Proto-Italic *kom
Proto-Italic *kom-
Latin com-
Proto-Indo-European *med-
Proto-Indo-European *-os
Proto-Italic *medos
Latin modus
Latin commodusnom.
Latin commodum
Proto-Indo-European *-h₂
Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂
Proto-Indo-European *-yéti
Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂yéti
Proto-Italic *-āō
Latin -ō
Latin commodō
Latin accommodō
Latin accommodātusbor.
English accommodate
1530s, borrowed from Latin accommodātus, perfect passive participle of accommodō (see -ate (verb-forming suffix) and -ate (adjective-forming suffix)), from ad- (“to, towards, at”) + commodō (“to provide, lend; to make fit, accommodate”), from con- + modus (“measure, proportion, limit”) + -ō (verb-forming suffix) (see English mode).
Affixes: -ate
Inflected forms:
form: accommodates
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: accommodating
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: accommodated
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: accommodated
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: To render fit, suitable, or correspondent; to adapt.
pos: verb
tags: often
reflexive
transitive
examples: to accommodate ourselves to circumstances
IT is an old Obſervation, which has been made of Politicians who would rather ingratiate themſelves with their Sovereign, than promote his real Service, that they accommodate their Counſels to his Inclinations, and adviſe him to ſuch Actions only as his Heart is naturally ſet upon.
gloss: To cause to come to agreement; to bring about harmony; to reconcile.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: to accommodate differences
gloss: To provide housing for.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: to accommodate an old friend for a week
gloss: To provide sufficient space for.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: My next stop is Oxford, which has also grown with the addition of new platforms to accommodate the Chiltern Railways service to London via Bicester - although, short sightedly, the planned electrification from Paddington was canned.
gloss: To contain comfortably; to have space for.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: This venue accommodates three hundred people.
gloss: To provide with something desired, needed, or convenient.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: to accommodate a friend with a loan
gloss: To do a favor or service for; to oblige.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
gloss: To show the correspondence of; to apply or make suit by analogy; to adapt or fit, as teachings to accidental circumstances, statements to facts, etc.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: to accommodate prophecy to events
gloss: To give consideration to; to allow for.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
gloss: To adapt oneself; to be conformable or adapted; become adjusted.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
rare
gloss: To change focal length in order to focus at a different distance.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
Antonyms: discommodate
Derived words: accommodatable
accommodatedness
accommodately
accommodateness
accommodation
accommodationism
accommodationist
accommodative
accommodator
accommodatory
disaccommodate
overaccommodate
reaccommodate
unaccommodated
underaccommodate
Translations:
lang: Italian
word: sistemare
lang: Māori
word: ō