ubicate

发音

UK /ˈjuːbɪkeɪt/
其它
US /ˈjubəkeɪt/

词形变化

ubicated ubicates 三单 ubicates ubicating ubicating 现在分词 ubicated 过去式 ubicated 过去分词

释义与例句

v.
  1. 1.

    To find and specify the location of (someone or something); to locate.

    正式 罕用 及物
  2. 2.

    To take up residence in a place; to lodge, to occupy.

    正式 不及物 罕用

词源

Probably a back-formation from ubication (“condition or fact of being in, or occupying, a certain place or position”) on the basis of -ate (suffix forming verbs). Ubication is borrowed from New Latin ubicātiō (“location”) (compare the inflected forms ubicātiōnis, ubicātiōnī, etc.), from Latin ubicātus (“located”) + -iō (suffix forming abstract nouns). Ubicātus is a past participial form of ubicō (“to situate”) (found in British works from the 14th century), from ubi (“where”) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *kʷ- (primary interrogative root)) + -ō (suffix forming regular first-conjugation verbs).

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