accommodation
/əˌkɒməˈdeɪʃən/uh-kah-muh-DAY-shuhn
/əˌkɑməˈdeɪʃən/uh-kah-muh-DAY-shuhn
Meaningthe act of fitting to
Common meaning: a place to stay
- acto, towards
- comwith, together
- moda measure; a way of doingLewis & Short, Latin Dictionary (1879), p. 1156 · scan
- atverb or adjective ending: to make, having
- ionnoun ending: act or result
‘to, towards’ + ‘with, together’ + ‘a measure’ → accommodation
Journey through time
- Latinmodus‘a measure’
- Englishaccommodate‘to provide room for’
- Englishformed in English from accommodateaccommodation‘a place to stay’ · today
Sources & notes
Meaning: “Meaning” is the sense that emerges from the word’s roots; “Common meaning” is today’s everyday sense. Both written by us.
Pronunciation
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- US IPA: CMUdict (BSD-2), converted to IPA by rule. Respelling: generated.
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Origin: Formed in English from accommodate + -ion.
Dictionary: Skeat (1898), ACCOMMODATE, p.6 · scan
Roots
- modus Latin “a measure; a way of doing”
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