English word accommodation comes from Latin accommodo, and later Latin accommodatio (Adapting, adaptation. Adjustment, complaisance.)
Dictionary entry | Language | Definition |
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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 [...] |