ubicate
English
Etymology
Compare ubication. Ultimately from ubi (“where”).
Pronunciation
- enPR: yo͞oʹ-bĭk-āt, IPA(key): /ˈjuː.bɪk.eɪ̯t/
Audio (UK): (file) - Hyphenation: u‧bic‧ate
- Rhymes: -uːbɪkeɪt
Verb
ubicate (third-person singular simple present ubicates, present participle ubicating, simple past and past participle ubicated)
- (intransitive, rare) To take up residence (in a place); to lodge (somewhere).
- (transitive, rare) To locate; to find and specify the location of.
- 2003, Paul Proulx, “Review of Desano Grammar: Studies in the Languages of Colombia 6” in the International Journal of American Linguistics LXIX, № 1, pages 100–102:
- [The text] contains a great deal of information in a relatively few pages. The introduction begins by ubicating the Desano people and providing a very brief set of ethnographic comments. They live on the Vaupés river in Colombia […]
- For quotations using this term, see Citations:ubicate.
- 2003, Paul Proulx, “Review of Desano Grammar: Studies in the Languages of Colombia 6” in the International Journal of American Linguistics LXIX, № 1, pages 100–102:
Italian
Etymology 1
Verb
ubicate
- inflection of ubicare:
Etymology 2
Participle
ubicate f pl