词汇 | locate |
词源 | locate. Probably the earliest of all American back formations, the verb to locate derives from the noun location. It is recorded by a traveler in 1652 and counted among its early users Ben Franklin and George Washington, who apparently didn’t care that some considered it a “vulgarism.” |
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