different between locus vs locate

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin locus.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?l??k?s/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /?lo?k?s/
• Rhymes: -??k?s

Noun

locus (plural loci)

1. A place or locality, especially a centre of activity or the scene of a crime.

2. (mathematics) The set of all points whose coordinates satisfy a given equation or condition.

3. (genetics) A fixed position on a chromosome that may be occupied by one or more genes.
4. (chiefly in the plural) A passage in writing, especially in a collection of ancient sacred writings arranged according to a theme.

Usage notes

• Sometimes confused with locust.

Derived terms

• homeolocus
• method of loci
• superlocus

Related terms

• local
• locality
• localization
• localize
• locate
• location
• locator

Translations

Anagrams

• ULOCs, clous

Latin

Etymology

From older stlocus, from Proto-Italic *stlokos, from Proto-Indo-European *stel- (“to put, place, locate”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /?lo.kus/, [????k?s?]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /?lo.kus/, [?l??kus]

Noun

locus m (genitive loc?); second declension

1. place, spot (a specific location)
2. a passage of literature
3. in the plural with neuter gender: a region or general geographic area

Declension

Second-declension noun (otherwise or neuter).

The inflection is irregular. For senses one and two, the declension follows the regular masculine pattern. For sense three, the plural forms become neuter in gender and form.

Derived terms

Descendants

References

• locus in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• locus in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• locus in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• locus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
• Carl Meissner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book?^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.

Spanish

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin locus. Doublet of luego.

Noun

locus m (plural loci)

1. (genetics) locus

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin loc?tus, past participle of loco (“to place”), from locus (“place”)

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /l???ke?t/, /l??ke?t/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /?lo?ke?t/, /lo??ke?t/
• Rhymes: -e?t
• Hyphenation: lo?cate

Verb

locate (third-person singular simple present locates, present participle locating, simple past and past participle located)

1. (transitive) To place; to set in a particular spot or position.
   • 1881, Brooke Foss Westcott, The New Testament in the Original Greek

     The captives and emigrants whom he brought with him were located in the trans-Tiberine quarter.
2. (transitive) To find out where something is located.
   • The Bat—they called him the Bat. […]. He […] played a lone hand, […]. Most lone wolves had a moll at any rate—women were their ruin—but if the Bat had a moll, not even the grapevine telegraph could locate her.

3. (transitive) To designate the site or place of; to define the limits of (Note: the designation may be purely descriptive: it need not be prescriptive.)
   • 1862-1892, Herbert Spencer, System of Synthetic Philosophy

     That part of the body in which the sense of touch is located.

4. (intransitive, colloquial) To place oneself; to take up one's residence; to settle.

   (Can we add an example for this sense?)

Derived terms

• co-locate

Related terms

Translations

Anagrams

• Alecto, acetol, coleta

Italian

Verb

locate

1. second-person plural present indicative of locare
2. second-person plural imperative of locare
3. feminine plural of locato

Anagrams

• celato
• colate
• cotale

Latin

Participle

loc?te

1. vocative masculine singular of loc?tus