accommodate

== English == === Etymology === 1530s, borrowed from Latin accommodātus, perfect passive participle of accommodō (see -ate (verb-forming suffix) and -ate (adjective-forming suffix)), from ad- (“to, towards, at”) + commodō (“to provide, lend; to make fit, accommodate”), from con- + modus (“measure, proportion, limit”) + -ō (verb-forming suffix) (see English mode). === Pronunciation === (Received Pronunciation, Canada, dialects of the US) IPA(key): /əˈkɒməˌdeɪt/, [əˈkʰɒməˌdeɪt] (General American, dialects of Canada) IPA(key): /əˈkɑməˌdeɪt/, [əˈkʰɑməˌdeɪt] (General Australian) IPA(key): /əˈkɔməˌdæɪt/, [əˈkʰɔməˌdæɪt] (New Zealand) IPA(key): /əˈkɒməˌdæɪt/, [əˈkʰɔ̟məˌdæɪt] === Verb === accommodate (third-person singular simple present accommodates, present participle accommodating, simple past and past participle accommodated) (transitive, often reflexive) To render fit, suitable, or correspondent; to adapt. Synonyms: adapt, conform, adjust, arrange, suit (transitive) To cause to come to agreement; to bring about harmony; to reconcile. Synonym: reconcile (transitive) To provide housing for. Synonym: quarter (transitive) To provide sufficient space for. (transitive) To contain comfortably; to have space for. (transitive) To provide with something desired, needed, or convenient. (transitive) To do a favor or service for; to oblige. Synonym: oblige (transitive) To show the correspondence of; to apply or make suit by analogy; to adapt or fit, as teachings to accidental circumstances, statements to facts, etc. (transitive) To give consideration to; to allow for. (intransitive, rare) To adapt oneself; to be conformable or adapted; become adjusted. (intransitive, of an eye) To change focal length in order to focus at a different distance. ==== Antonyms ==== discommodate (obsolete) ==== Derived terms ==== ==== Translations ==== === Adjective === accommodate (comparative more accommodate, superlative most accommodate) (obsolete) Suitable; fit; adapted; as, means accommodate to end. === Further reading === “accommodate”, in OneLook Dictionary Search. “accommodate”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC. == Latin == === Adverb === accommodātē (comparative accommodātius, superlative accommodātissimē) suitably ==== Related terms ==== accommodātiō accommodātus accommodō accommodus === References === “accommodate”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press “accommodate”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers “accommodate”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette. Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894), Latin Phrase-Book‎[1], London: Macmillan and Co. == Scots == === Pronunciation === IPA(key): [əˈkɔmədet] === Verb === accommodate (third-person singular simple present accommodates, present participle accommodatin, simple past accomodatit, past participle accommodat) accommodate === References === Eagle, Andy, de. (2016) The Online Scots Dictionary, Scots Online.