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coordinate
Coordinate comes from Medieval Latin coōrdinātus, from Latin ōrdinō ‘to arrange, put in order, organize’, and ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *h₂er-.
- Proto-Indo-Europeanc. 4500–2500 BCE*h₂er-‘to fit, to fix, to put together, to slot’reconstructed
- Proto-Italicc. 1500–700 BCE*ordōreconstructed
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEōrdō‘order’
- Latin, derivedc. 75 BCE–200 CEōrdinō‘to arrange, put in order, organize’
- Medieval Latinc. 600–1500coōrdinātus
- Englishearliest quotation 1745coordinate
attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed deepest recorded ancestor
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- Proto-Indo-Europeanc. 4500–2500 BCE*h₂er-‘to fit, to fix, to put together, to slot’reconstructed
- Proto-Italicc. 1500–700 BCE*ordōreconstructed
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEōrdō‘order’
- Latin, derivedc. 75 BCE–200 CEōrdinō‘to arrange, put in order, organize’
- Medieval Latinc. 600–1500coōrdinātus
- Englishearliest quotation 1745coordinate
Earliest quotation: 1745, Edmund Law: “whether there was one Supreme Governor of the world,…”
Proto-Indo-European *ḱóm ‘beside, near, by, with’
Proto-Italic *kom ‘with, along, at’
Proto-Italic *kom- ‘together’
English co-
Proto-Indo-European *h₂er- ‘to fit, to fix, to put together, to slot’
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Latin ōrdō ‘order’
Latin ōrdinō ‘arrange, put in order’
Latin ōrdinātus ‘arranged, ordered, having been put in order,…’
Middle English ordinat(e)
English ordinate
Linked words
through Proto-Indo-European *h₂er- ‘to fit, to fix, to put together, to slot’
reason, art, ready, article, army, artist, rate, arm, alarm, ratio, harmony, armor, arthritis, arithmetic, anarchy, harmonic, articulate, artisan, harmonious, aristocratic, armament, inertia, articulation, inert, harmonize, rta, artifice, armadillo, archon, rime, armature, harmonium, arche, 74 more
through Proto-Italic *ordō
through Latin ōrdō ‘order’
ordinary, ornament, adorn, ornate, ordo, ordain, orn, ordinal, 9 more
through Latin ōrdinō ‘to arrange, put in order, organize’
Another origin of coordinate
- Medieval Latinc. 600–1500coōrdinātus
- Englishtodaycoordinate
Today it means
adj Of the same rank; equal.
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / Proto-Indo-European *h₂er- / coordinate