different between concatenate vs thesaurusi

English

Etymology

From the perfect passive participle stem of Latin concat?n?re (“to link or chain together”), from con- (“with”) + cat?n? (“chain, bind”), from cat?na (“a chain”).

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /k?n?kæt.?.ne?t/

Verb

concatenate (third-person singular simple present concatenates, present participle concatenating, simple past and past participle concatenated)

1. To join or link together, as though in a chain.
   • 2003, Roy Porter, Flesh in the Age of Reason, (Penguin 2004), page 182)

     Locke, by contrast, contended that [madness] was essentially a question of intellectual delusion, the capture of the mind by false ideas concatenated into a logical system of unreality.

2. (transitive, computing) To join (text strings) together.

Derived terms

• concatenation
• concatenative
• deconcatenate

Related terms

• catenate

Translations

Adjective

concatenate (not comparable)

1. (biology) Joined together as if in a chain.
   • 1947, Ivan Mackenzie Lamb, A monograph of the lichen genus Placopsis Nyl (page 166)

     The Nostocoid type consists of small rounded blue-green cells not over 5p. in diameter and arranged in chains which are often much broken up in the cephalodium, so that the concatenate arrangement is hardly apparent.

Italian

Verb

concatenate

1. second-person plural present indicative of concatenare
2. second-person plural imperative of concatenare
3. feminine plural of concatenato

Latin

Verb

concat?n?te

1. second-person plural present active imperative of concat?n?

English

Alternative forms

• thesauri
• thesauruses

Noun

thesaurusi

1. (rare, nonstandard) plural of thesaurus

Usage notes

• This word is incorrectly formed. For masculine nouns in the nominative case of Latin’s second declension (of which th?saurus is one), -us and -? are singular and plural endings, respectively; one or the other attaches to the noun’s stem (thesaur-), depending on number: the plural ending does not concatenate as thesaur- + -us + -i = thesaurusi, but rather supplants the singular ending (-us) as thesaur- + -i = thesauri — thus forming the correct Latin nominative plural, which is also valid in English. Alternatively, in English, thesaurus, can be suffixed with the English plural suffix -es, to form another correct plural form of thesaurus, thesauruses. Thesaurusi is a rare error.