Accommodation etymology

English

English word accommodation comes from Latin accommodo, and later Latin accommodatio (Adapting, adaptation. Adjustment, complaisance.)

Etymology of accommodation

Detailed word origin of accommodation

Dictionary entry Language Definition
accommodo Latin (lat) (with reflexive) I support, conform to, comply or side with.. I adjust, adapt or accommodate to; bring someone or something to something, apply.. I fit or adapt something to something else, lay, put or hang on, attach; prepare (for a use), provide.
accommodatio Latin (lat) Adapting, adaptation. Adjustment, complaisance.
accommodation English (en) (countable) The application of a writer's language, on the ground of analogy, to something not originally referred to or intended.. (countable, commerce) A loan of money.. (countable, commerce) An accommodation bill or note.. (countable, geology) The place where sediments can make, or have made, a sedimentation.. (countable, legal) An offer of substitute goods to fulfill a contract, which [...]