English
accommodate
Accommodate comes from Latin accommodātus ‘fit, suitable, appropriate’.
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEaccommodātus‘fit, suitable, appropriate’
- Englishearliest quotation a. 1671accommodate
attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed
Lineage
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEaccommodātus‘fit, suitable, appropriate’
- Englishearliest quotation a. 1671accommodate
Earliest quotation: a. 1671, John Tillotson, Sermons Preach’d Upon Several Occaſions: “God did not primarily intend to appoint this way…”
A compound of com- + commodus ‘comfortable, commodious, suitable, useful,…’ + commodum + commodō ‘to lend or hire’ + accommodō
Proto-Indo-European *ḱe ‘Deictic particle, here’
Proto-Indo-European *ḱóm ‘beside, near, by, with’
Proto-Italic *kom ‘with, along, at’
Proto-Italic *kom- ‘together’
Proto-Italic *medos ‘measure’
Latin modus ‘measure’
Latin commodus ‘comfortable, commodious, suitable, useful, convenient, becoming’
Proto-Indo-European *ḱe ‘Deictic particle, here’
Proto-Indo-European *ḱóm ‘beside, near, by, with’
Proto-Italic *kom ‘with, along, at’
Proto-Italic *kom- ‘together’
Proto-Italic *medos ‘measure’
Latin modus ‘measure’
Latin commodus ‘comfortable, commodious, suitable, useful, convenient, becoming’
Latin commodum
Proto-Indo-European *ḱe ‘Deictic particle, here’
Proto-Indo-European *ḱóm ‘beside, near, by, with’
Proto-Italic *kom ‘with, along, at’
Proto-Italic *kom- ‘together’
Proto-Italic *medos ‘measure’
Latin modus ‘measure’
Latin commodus ‘comfortable, commodious, suitable, useful, convenient, becoming’
Latin commodum
Latin commodō ‘to lend or hire’
Proto-Indo-European *ḱe ‘Deictic particle, here’
Proto-Indo-European *ḱóm ‘beside, near, by, with’
Proto-Italic *kom ‘with, along, at’
Proto-Italic *kom- ‘together’
Proto-Italic *medos ‘measure’
Latin modus ‘measure’
Latin commodus ‘comfortable, commodious, suitable, useful, convenient, becoming’
Latin commodum
Latin commodō ‘to lend or hire’
Latin accommodō
The story
First use appears c. the 1530s, borrowed from Latin accommodātus, perfect passive participle of accommodō (see -ate (verb-forming suffix) and -ate (adjective-forming suffix)), from ad- (‘to, towards, at’) + commodō (‘to provide, lend; to make fit, accommodate’), from con- + modus (‘measure, proportion, limit’) + -ō (verb-forming suffix) (see English mode).
Every English word from Latin accommodātus
Today it means
verb To render fit, suitable, or correspondent; to adapt.
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / Latin accommodātus / accommodate