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Origin and history of accommodate

accommodate(v.)

1530s, "fit one thing to another," from Latin accomodatus "suitable, fit, appropriate to," past participle of accomodare "make fit, make fit for, adapt, fit one thing to another," from ad "to" (see ad-) + commodare "make fit," from commodus ""proper, fit, appropriate, convenient, satisfactory," from com-, here as an intensive prefix (see com-), + modus "measure, manner" (from PIE root *med- "take appropriate measures").

From late 16c. as "make suitable," also "furnish (someone) with what is wanted," especially "furnish with suitable room and comfort" (1712). Related: Accommodated; accommodating.

also from 1530s

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accommodating(adj.)

"obliging, disposed to yield to the desires of others," 1771, present-participle adjective from accommodate. Related: Accomodatingly. Accomodable is from c. 1600 as "suitable."

accommodation(n.)

c. 1600, "that which supplies a want or need," from French accommodation, from Latin accommodationem (nominative accommodatio) "an adjustment," noun of action from past-participle stem of accommodare "make fit; make fit for" (see accommodate).

The meaning "appliance, anything which affords aid" is from 1610s; that of "act of accommodating" is from 1640s. The meaning "arrangement of a dispute" is from 1640s. An accommodation train (1838) was one making all stops (as opposed to an express); it was used earlier of stages (1811).

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