location English · revision 2789

+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=borrowing|attested=1592|origins=la locus}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * IPA: UK /ləʊˈkeɪ.ʃən/, US /loʊˈkeɪ.ʃən/^(Roach et al. 2011)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[bor|la|locātiō|t=a placing; a letting for hire]] (accusative locātiōnem),^(Etymonline)^(MWU 2024)^(SOED 2002) a noun of action from [[m|la|locāre|t=to place, put; to lease]],^(Etymonline)^(MWU 2024) from [[m|la|locus|t=a place]],^(Etymonline) the source of [[locus]] and [[locate]].^(Etymonline)^(MWU 2024)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ In civil and Scots law, the letting of something for hire: 1592.^(OED 1989) The position of something, the fact of being in a particular place, is from 1597^(OED 1989)^(MWU 2024) (the 1590s in Etymonline).^(Etymonline)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ The act of placing or settling is from the 1620s.^(Etymonline)^(OED 1989) Of land, the marking out of a tract by survey is from 1718, hence a tract of land marked out (1792), in the US especially a mining claim.^(Etymonline)^(OED 1989) In Australia a location was a farm or station (1828).^(OED 1989) In South Africa the word was used of the land granted to British settlers in 1820,^(DSAE) and of the quarters or areas set apart for Black South Africans.^(OED 1989) The film sense, a place away from the studio where scenes are shot, as in ''on location'', is from 1914.^(Etymonline)^(OED 1989)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * 1592 – letting for hire (law).^(OED 1989)

+ * 1597 – a position, place.^(OED 1989)^(MWU 2024)

+ * 1620s – the act of placing.^(Etymonline)

+ * 1718 – the surveying of land.^(Etymonline)^(OED 1989)

+ * 1792 – a tract of land marked out.^(Etymonline)^(OED 1989)

+ * 1914 – a film location.^(Etymonline)^(OED 1989)

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+ ==Modern meaning==

+ ===Noun===

+ # A place where something is or could be; a [[site]] or position.^(AHD)^(MW Collegiate)

+ # The act of finding or placing something.^(AHD)^(OED 1989)

+ # A place away from a [[studio]] where a film is shot: ''on location''.^(AHD)^(Etymonline)

+ # A tract of land surveyed and marked off.^(AHD)^(Etymonline)

+ # ''(South Africa, historical)'' An area set apart for Black South Africans.^(OED 1989)

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+ ==Word family==

+ * [[locational]]

+ * [[locationally]]

+ * [[bilocation]]

+ * [[echolocation]]

+ * [[interlocation]]

+ * [[multilocation]]

+ * [[radiolocation]]

+ * [[translocation]]

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[local]]

+ * [[locale]]

+ * [[localize]]

+ * [[locate]]

+ * [[locative]]

+ * [[locator]]

+ * [[locus]]

+ * [[locomotive]]

+ * [[allocate]]

+ * [[dislocate]]

+ * [[lieu]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}