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concatenate
Jul. 28th, 2023 07:43 amconcatenate (kon-KAT-n-ayt) - v., to link together in a series or chain; (computing) to join (text strings) together. adj., linked together, as in a chain.
I first learned the computing sense, and only much later realized it was a specialized metaphoric extension of an existing word. It's been used since the mid-1400s, from the perfect passive participle stem of Latin concatēnāre, to link or chain together, from com-, together + catēnāre, to bind (from catēna, chain, which is also the ancestor of chain via the Anglo-French form chaene).
Next week will be another thematic concatenation, i.e. a theme week.
---L.
I first learned the computing sense, and only much later realized it was a specialized metaphoric extension of an existing word. It's been used since the mid-1400s, from the perfect passive participle stem of Latin concatēnāre, to link or chain together, from com-, together + catēnāre, to bind (from catēna, chain, which is also the ancestor of chain via the Anglo-French form chaene).
Next week will be another thematic concatenation, i.e. a theme week.
---L.
