TRANSLOCATE

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Translocate

verb

Third-person singular simple present: translocates

Indicative past, past participle: translocated

Present participle: translocating

Etymology: it is compounded with the prefix trans- and the verb locate. It is etymologically and semantically identical with Italian traslocare.

Transitive use:

To locate (something or someone) elsewhere than the actual location; to remove from one place to another; to displace, dislocate; to change the position of.

Equivalents: Déplacer, in French; descolocar, in Spanish.

A sofa upholstered in prune plush had been translocated from opposite the door to the ingleside near the compactly furled Union Jack. James Joyce (Ulysses)

John has translocated his domicile, and become musical in his old days. Percy Bysshe Shelley (Edinburgh Literary Journal)

***The most usual direct object is other animal than a human:

Over the last twenty years authorities have increasingly attempted to translocate offending animals as an alternative to shooting them. E. Sunquist – Fiona Sunquist (Wild Cats of the World)

[Rabinowitz] reports that two livestock-killing jaguars translocated to Cockscomb Basin National Park, Belize, soon left the park. David MacDonald – Andrew Loveridge (The Biology and Conservation of Wild Felids)

Between 1988 and 1990, four male and four female Allen Cays iguanas were translocated to Alligator Cay in the Exuma Islands, Bahamas. Allison Alberts (Iguanas: Biology and Conservation)

Intransitive use:

To change location; to locate oneself elsewhere.

Equivalents: se déplacer, in French; descolocarse, in Spanish.

Other English vocables derived from, or compounded with, Latin locus: translocation, translocated, translocatory, translocational, locate, located, locatee, locater, locator, locating, location, locational, locative, locable, local (noun, adj. verb), locale, localism, localist, localistic, locality, localizability, localizable, localization, localize, localizing, localized, localizer, locally, locatable, relocate, relocatable, relocation, collocate, collocated, collocating, collocation, collocational, collocative, collocatory, nonlocal, illocal, illocally, illocality, locomotion, locomotive, locomotively, locomotiveness, locomotivity, locomotor, locomobile, locomobility, locomote, locomotility, interlocal, interlocally, interlocate, interlocation, patrilocal, patrilocality, patrilocally, uxorilocal, uxorilocally, virilocal, virilocally, virilocality, dislocable, dislocability, dislocate, dislocating, dislocated, dislocatedly, dislocatedness, dislocatee, dislocation, dislocationally, dislocative, dislocator, dislocatory.