Collocate
/ˈkɑːləˌkeɪt/noun
To place or arrange things side by side; in linguistics, to occur together with another word.
Did you know?Collocate comes from Latin roots meaning “with” + “place,” and its older sense was literally about positioning things together before modern linguists used it for words that naturally appear side by side.
Etymological Timeline
Latin
Latin
collocāre
“to place together, arrange, station”
Late Latin
Latin
collocātus
“placed together; arranged”
Old French
Old French
collocacion
“an arrangement or placing together”
15th Century
English
collocate
“to place in a position; arrange”
20th Century
English
collocate
“to habitually occur together, especially of words”