Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

concatenate

/kənˈkæ.tə.neɪt/

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.69 in modern English

Syllables: con-cate-nate
IPA: /kənˈkæ.tə.neɪt/

15

Scrabble Score

11

Letters

4

Syllables

6

Unique Chars

Meaning

verb

To join or link together, as though in a chain.

verb

To join (text strings) together.

Transitive verb

adj

Joined together as if in a chain.

Example Sentences

"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."
"Concatenating "shoe" with "string" yields "shoestring"."
"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."

Etymology

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *ḱe? Proto-Indo-European *ḱóm Proto-Italic *kom Proto-Italic *kom- Latin con- Proto-Italic *katesnā Latin catēna Proto-Indo-European *-h₂ Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂ Proto-Indo-European *-yéti Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂yéti Proto-Indo-European *-h₂tiinflu. Proto-Italic *-ājō Proto-Italic *-āō Latin -ō Latin catēnō Latin concatēnō Latin concatēnātus English concatenate From the perfect passive participle stem of Latin concatēnāre (“to link or chain together”), from con- (“with”) + catēnō (“chain, bind”), from catēna (“a chain”).

Regional Pronunciation

American English: /kənˈkæ.tə.neɪt/

Usage

Transitive verb

Inflected Forms

concatenates (present, singular) concatenating (participle, present) concatenated (participle, past) concatenated (past)

Derived Forms

concatemer concatenation concatenative deconcatenate nonconcatenated reconcatenate unconcatenate unconcatenated

Frequently Paired Words

catenate

Rhymes With

latinate

Questions

How do you pronounce concatenate?: The recorded pronunciation is /kənˈkæ.tə.neɪt/.
What does concatenate mean?: To join or link together, as though in a chain.
Where does concatenate come from?: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *ḱe? Proto-Indo-European *ḱóm Proto-Italic *kom Proto-Italic *kom- Latin con- Proto-Italic *katesnā Latin catēna Proto-Indo-European *-h₂ Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂ Proto-Indo-European *-yéti Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂yéti Proto-Indo-European *-h₂tiinflu. Proto-Italic *-ājō Proto-Italic *-āō Latin -ō Latin catēnō Latin concatēnō Latin concatēnātus English concatenate From the perfect passive participle stem of Latin concatēnāre (“to link or chain together”), from con- (“with”) + catēnō (“chain, bind”), from catēna (“a chain”).

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