location

location

See also: Location

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin locatio, locationis (“a placing”), from locare (“to place, put, set, let”), from locus (“a place”). Equivalent to locate +‎ -ion.

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /loʊˈkeɪʃən/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ləʊˈkeɪʃən/

• Audio (US)

  (file)

• Rhymes: -eɪʃən

Noun

location (plural locations)

1. A particular point or place in physical space.
   • 2013 June 22, “T time”, in The Economist, volume 407, number 8841, page 68:

     The ability to shift profits to low-tax countries by locating intellectual property in them […] is often assumed to be the preserve of high-tech companies. […] current tax rules make it easy for all sorts of firms to generate […] “stateless income”: profit subject to tax in a jurisdiction that is neither the location of the factors of production that generate the income nor where the parent firm is domiciled.

2. An act of locating.
   • 1886 November 12, Joseph Church Helm, opinion, Pelican & Dives Min. Co. v. Snodgrass, reprinted in, 1887, Pacific Reporter, volume 12, page 207 :

     The Ontario tunnel was not located in pursuance of the law relating to tunnel-sites. Lewis failed to follow up his discovery of mineral therein with any effort whatever towards completing the statutory location of a mining claim.

3. (South Africa) An apartheid-era urban area populated by non-white people; township.
   • 2011, Dennis Brutus, Bernth Lindfors, The Dennis Brutus Tapes: Essays at Autobiography (page 188)

     It is the sounds of apartheid, of the townships, the locations […]

4. (law) A leasing on rent.
5. (law, Scotland) A contract for the use of a thing, or service of a person, for hire[1].
6. (law, US) The marking out of the boundaries, or identifying the place or site of, a piece of land, according to the description given in an entry, plan, map, etc[2]
7. (Kenya) An administrative region in Kenya, below counties and subcounties, and further divided into sublocations.

Synonyms

• (a place): place

Derived terms

• echolocation
• geolocation
• macrolocation
• microlocation
• photolocation

 

Related terms

• local
• locale
• localize
• locate
• locational
• locative
• locator

 

Descendants

• → German: Location

Translations

place

Arabic: مَوْقِع‎ (ar) m (mawqiʿ), مَكَان‎ (ar) m (makān), مَوْضِع‎ m (mawḍiʿ) Moroccan Arabic: بلاصة‎ (blāṣa) Egyptian Arabic: مكان‎ m (makān) Belarusian: месцазнахо́джанне n (mjescaznaxódžannje), стано́вішча n (stanóvišča), ме́сца (be) n (mjésca) Bengali: জায়গা (bn) (jayôga), স্থান (bn) (sthan) Bulgarian: мя́сто (bg) n (mjásto), местоположе́ние (bg) n (mestopoložénie) Catalan: ubicació (ca) Chinese: Mandarin: 位置 (zh) (wèizhi), 場所／场所 (zh) (chǎngsuǒ), 地點／地点 (zh) (dìdiǎn), 地方 (zh) (dìfang) Czech: poloha (cs) f, umístění (cs), místo (cs) Danish: beliggenhed c, sted (da) n, plads (da) c Dutch: plaats (nl) f, locatie (nl) f Esperanto: situo (eo) Estonian: asukoht, ruum (et) Finnish: paikka (fi), sijainti (fi) French: lieu (fr) m, localisation (fr) f, situation (fr) f, emplacement (fr), position (fr) Georgian: მდებარეობა (mdebareoba), ადგილმდებარეობა (adgilmdebareoba), ადგილი (ka) (adgili), ადგილსამყოფელი (adgilsamq̇opeli) German: Lage (de) f, Ort (de) m, Platz (de) m Gothic: 𐍃𐍄𐌰𐌸𐍃 m (staþs) Greek: τοποθεσία (el) f (topothesía), θέση (el) f (thési) Icelandic: staðsetning f, staður (is) m Italian: posizione (it) f, ubicazione (it) f Japanese: 位置 (ja) (いち, ichi), 場所 (ja) (ばしょ, basho), 地点 (ja) (ちてん, chiten) Khmer: ស្ថាន (km) (sthaan), ថាន (thaan) Korean: 위치(位置) (ko) (wichi), 장소(場所) (ko) (jangso), 지점(地點) (ko) (jijeom) Lao: please add this translation if you can Latin: locus (la) m Macedonian: место n (mesto), местоположба f (mestopoložba), локација f (lokacija) Maori: taiwhanga, wāhi, tauwāhi Norwegian: Bokmål: sted (no) n, beliggenhet m or f Nynorsk: stad m Old Church Slavonic: Cyrillic: мѣсто n (město) Old English: stow f Plautdietsch: Städ f Polish: lokalizacja (pl) f, położenie (pl) n, miejsce (pl) n Portuguese: local (pt) m, localização (pt) f Russian: положе́ние (ru) n (položénije), местоположе́ние (ru) n (mestopoložénije), местонахожде́ние (ru) n (mestonaxoždénije), расположе́ние (ru) n (raspoložénije), пози́ция (ru) f (pozícija), ме́сто (ru) n (mésto) Serbo-Croatian: Cyrillic: ме̏сто n, мје̏сто n, лока́ција f Roman: mȅsto (sh) n, mjȅsto (sh) n, lokácija (sh) f Sinhalese: ස්ථානය (si) (sthānaya) Slovak: poloha f, umiestnenie n, miesto (sk) n Slovene: lokacija f, mesto (sl) n, kraj (sl) m Spanish: ubicación (es) f, lugar (es) m, posición (es) Swedish: läge (sv) n, plats (sv) c Thai: ตำแหน่ง (th) (dtam-nɛ̀ng), สถานที่ (th) (sà-tǎan-tîi), ที่ (th) (tîi) Tocharian B: wṣeñña, īke Turkish: konum (tr), yer (tr), lokasyon (tr) Ugaritic: 𐎎𐎋𐎐𐎚 (mknt) Ukrainian: місцеполо́ження n (miscepolóžennja), поло́ження n (polóžennja), розташува́ння n (roztašuvánnja), мі́сце (uk) n (mísce) Vietnamese: vị trí (vi), địa điểm (vi)

act of locating

Belarusian: размяшчэ́нне n (razmjaščénnje) Bulgarian: разпола́гане (bg) n (razpolágane) Catalan: ubicació (ca) Danish: lokalisering c Finnish: sijoittaminen (fi) German: Ortsbestimmung (de) f, Ortsermittlung f, Ortung (de) f, Lokalisierung f, Lokalisation f Georgian: ლოკაცია (loḳacia) Italian: collocamento (it) m, collocazione (it) f Japanese: 配置 (ja) (はいち, haichi), 設置 (ja) (せっち, setchi) Polish: lokacja f Portuguese: localização (pt) f Russian: размеще́ние (ru) n (razmeščénije) Slovene: lociranje n Spanish: ubicación (es) Swedish: lokalisering (sv)

administrative region in Kenya

Swahili: kata (sw)

References

1. a. 1768, John Erskine of Carnock, An Institute of the Law of Scotland
2. 1839. John Bouvier, Law Dictionary

Further reading

• location in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
• location in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911
• location at OneLook Dictionary Search

Anagrams

• colation, coontail

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French

FWOTD – 20 December 2012

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin locatio(nem), from locatum, from locare (“to rent, hire”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /lɔ.ka.sjɔ̃/

• Audio

  (file)

Noun

location f (plural locations)

1. renting, rental
2. rent
3. rented accommodation
   • 2012, Delphine Batho, Le Monde:

     L'article indique que j'ai « abusé des prix avantageux de la Ville de Paris » en référence au logement intermédiaire dont j'étais locataire. Je tiens à préciser que cette location avait été attribuée dans des conditions normales et régulières en 2001, six ans avant que je sois élue députée.

     The article suggests that I ‘abused favourable prices in the City of Paris’ with regard to the intermediary housing of which I was a tenant. I wish to clarify that this accommodation had been allocated under normal, regular conditions in 2001, six years before I was elected Deputy.

4. hire (of a car etc.)
5. booking, reservation

Usage notes

• A false friend of the English location, whose French equivalents include endroits, lieu, and emplacement.

Related terms

• loyer
• lieu
• louer

See also

• établissement

Further reading

• “location”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.