ubicate
English edit
Etymology edit
Compare ubication. Ultimately from ubi (“where”).
Pronunciation edit
- enPR: yo͞oʹ-bĭk-āt, IPA(key): /ˈjuː.bɪk.eɪ̯t/
Audio (Southern England) (file) - Hyphenation: u‧bic‧ate
- Rhymes: -uːbɪkeɪt
Verb edit
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 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.
Italian edit
Etymology 1 edit
Verb edit
ubicate
- inflection of ubicare:
Etymology 2 edit
Participle edit
ubicate f pl
Spanish edit
Verb edit
ubicate
- second-person singular voseo imperative of ubicar combined with te