Etymograph

English

coordinate

Coordinate comes from Medieval Latin coōrdinātus, from Latin ōrdinō ‘to arrange, put in order, organize’, and ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *h₂er-.

  1. Proto-Indo-Europeanc. 4500–2500 BCE*h₂er-1‘to fit, to fix, to put together, to slot’reconstructed
  2. Proto-Italicc. 1500–700 BCE*ordō1reconstructed
  3. Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEōrdō1‘order’
  4. Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEōrdinō2‘to arrange, put in order, organize’
  5. Medieval Latinc. 600–1500coōrdinātus2
  6. Englishearliest quotation 1745coordinate2

attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed deepest recorded ancestor

  1. 1 Wiktionary, Latin ordino
  2. 2 Wiktionary, English coordinate
  3. Earliest quotation in Wiktionary’s entry: 1745, Edmund Law: “whether there was one Supreme Governor of the world,…”.

Lineage

  1. Proto-Indo-Europeanc. 4500–2500 BCE*h₂er-Wiktionary, Latin ordino‘to fit, to fix, to put together, to slot’reconstructed
  2. Proto-Italicc. 1500–700 BCE*ordōWiktionary, Latin ordinoreconstructed
  3. Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEōrdōWiktionary, Latin ordino‘order’
  4. Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEōrdinōWiktionary, English coordinate‘to arrange, put in order, organize’
  5. Medieval Latinc. 600–1500coōrdinātusWiktionary, English coordinate
  6. Englishearliest quotation 1745coordinateWiktionary, English coordinate. Earliest quotation in Wiktionary’s entry: 1745, Edmund Law: “whether there was one Supreme Governor of the world,…”

Linked words

through Proto-Indo-European *h₂er- ‘to fit, to fix, to put together, to slot’

reason, art, ready, article, army, artist, rate, arm, alarm, ratio, harmony, armor, arthritis, arithmetic, anarchy, harmonic, articulate, artisan, harmonious, aristocratic, armament, inertia, articulation, inert, harmonize, rta, artifice, armadillo, archon, rime, armature, harmonium, arche, 73 more

through Proto-Italic *ordō

order, 3 more

through Latin ōrdō ‘order’

ordinary, ornament, adorn, ornate, ordo, ordain, orn, ordinal, 9 more

through Latin ōrdinō ‘to arrange, put in order, organize’

ordination, subordinate, ordinator, inordinate, 3 more

Another origin of coordinate

  1. Medieval Latinc. 600–1500coōrdinātus
  2. Englishtodaycoordinate

Today it means

adj Of the same rank; equal.

Sources

Sources: Wiktionary, “coordinate”; the older steps come from the Wiktionary entry for Latin ordino. By Wiktionary contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0, via kaikki.org (dump of Oct 3 2026); text adapted and restructured. Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word. License.

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