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verb
To find and specify the location of (someone or something); to locate.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: formal, rare, transitive
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verb
To take up residence in a place; to lodge, to occupy.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: formal, intransitive, rare
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History
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).
