ubication
/jubəˈkeɪʃən/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
13
Scrabble Score
9
Letters
3
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "We conceiue these modifications if the thing, like substances; and…we call them by substantiue names, Whitenesse, Action, Vbication, Duration, &c."
- "Relations, Ubications, Duration, the vulgar Philosophy admits into the list of something."
- "They are accustomed to think that Ubication, or the being in a Place, is but an Accident to a Substance."
- "Arriaga, who wrote in 1639,…suggests that the board affects the upper weight, which it does not touch, by its ubication, or whereness."
- "The terminus ad quem is already existing, and merely receives a new ubication."
- "The constant identity of the ubication and direction of the lines [in Mars] proved their connection with the soil."
Etymology
Borrowed from New Latin ubicātiō (“location”) (whence Portuguese ubicação and Spanish ubicación; compare the inflected forms ubicātiōnis, ubicātiōnī, etc.) + -ion. Ubicātiō is derived from Latin ubicātus (“located”) + -iō (suffix forming abstract nouns); while ubicātus is a past participial form of ubicō (“to situate”) (found in British works from the 14th century), from ubi (“where”) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *kʷ- (primary interrogative root)) + -ō (suffix forming regular first-conjugation verbs). By surface analysis, ubicate + -ion (ubicate is probably a back-formation from ubication). Later occurrences are influenced by Spanish ubicación, hence their use chiefly in Spanish contexts.
Origin
- Source language: Latin
Word Breakdown
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /jubəˈkeɪʃən/
- British English: /juːbɪˈkeɪʃn̩/