English

translocate

Translocate comes from English locate.

attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed

Lineage

Earliest quotation: 2022, Paul Bigland, HS2 is Just ‘Passing Through’: “Unexpectedly, even some of the monoliths are throwing out…”

Proto-Indo-European *terh₂- ‘to cross over, pass through, overcome’

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Proto-Indo-European *tr̥h₂ónts

Proto-Indo-European *tr̥h₂n̥ts

Proto-Italic *trāns ‘across, beyond’

Proto-Italic *trāns-

Old Latin stlocus

Latin locus ‘place, location’

Latin locō ‘to place’

Latin locātus ‘put, placed, having been set’

The verb is derived from trans- (prefix meaning ‘across; to the other side of’) + locate, a back-formation from translocation.

Every English word from English locate

verb To move or transfer (someone or something) from one place to another; to displace, to relocate, to remove.

Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.