English
allocate
Allocate comes from Latin allocātus ‘allocated’, from locus ‘place’, and ultimately from Old Latin stlocus.
- Old Latinc. 700–75 BCEstlocus
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CElocus‘place’
- Latin, derivedc. 75 BCE–200 CElocō
- Latin, derivedc. 75 BCE–200 CEallocō‘to allocate’
- Latin, derivedc. 75 BCE–200 CEallocātus‘allocated’perfect passive participle of allocō
- Englishearliest quotation 2011allocate
attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed deepest recorded ancestor
Earlier history uncertain.
Lineage
- Old Latinc. 700–75 BCEstlocus
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CElocus‘place’
- Latin, derivedc. 75 BCE–200 CElocō
- Latin, derivedc. 75 BCE–200 CEallocō‘to allocate’
- Latin, derivedc. 75 BCE–200 CEallocātus‘allocated’perfect passive participle of allocō
- Englishearliest quotation 2011allocate
Earliest quotation: 2011, José M. Garrido, Richard Schlesinger: “The memory manager allocates memory to requesting processes until…”
Old Latin stlocus
Latin locus ‘place, location’
Latin locō ‘to place’
Latin locātus ‘put, placed, having been set’
English locate
Linked words
through Proto-Indo-European *stel- ‘to put, to place’
stole, install, stool, apostle, stall, stalk, stale, epistle, stele, stolid, stela, apostolate, stell, 26 more
through Old Latin stlocus
locality, milieu, locale, 10 more
through Latin locus ‘place’
local, location, lieu, locus, loco, locative, 13 more
through Latin locō
allowance, locator, collocation, 8 more
through Latin allocō ‘to allocate’
Today it means
verb To set aside for a purpose.
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / Old Latin stlocus / allocate