Collocated

Part of speech: verb

Definitions

1. To be situated alongside other elements in a manner that implies a relationship or partnership
2. To be organized in a manner that highlights their connection or relevance to one another
3. Set side by side in a way that indicates a connection between parts

Etymology: "Collocated" is the past tense and past participle of "collocate", a verb borrowed from Latin "collocatum", the supine form of "collocare", meaning "to place together" or "to arrange". The Latin verb was built from "com-", "together", and "locare", "to place", the same root that gave English "locate" and "location". That shared stem explains the core idea: to collocate things is to set them in a common place or arrangement. Oddly, "collocate" is a doublet of "couch", which came into English from Old French "coucher" and meant originally to lay something down or put it in place. The two words took different routes from the same Latin source, one through French and one directly from Latin, so they now look and sound unrelated. "Couch" kept the sense of lying down, while "collocate" kept the older sense of placing things side by side, which is why it fits arrangements of related items.

Synonyms: positioned, situated, located, arranged, placed

Antonyms: displaced, scattered, dislocated, disarranged, separated