accommodate

Meanings

1. 1
   verb

   To have enough space or room for a number of people or things.

   The hall can comfortably accommodate up to five hundred guests.

2. 2
   verb

   To provide somebody with a place to stay or sleep.

   The hotel accommodated the stranded travellers overnight.

3. 3
   verb

   To do what someone wants or needs in order to help them; to oblige.

   The staff did their best to accommodate every special request.

4. 4
   verb

   To change or adjust something so that it fits a new situation.

   We had to accommodate our plans to the sudden change in weather.

Simplified etymology

Accommodate comes from Latin accommodare, “make fitting” or “fit one thing to another,” based on commodus, “fit.” English initially retained this general sense; by the late 16th century, fitting something to a person’s needs had produced the meaning “provide lodgings for.”

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *h₂éd Proto-Italic *ad Proto-Italic *ad- Latin ad- Proto-Indo-European *ḱe Proto-Indo-European *ḱóm Proto-Italic *kom Proto-Italic *kom- Latin com- Proto-Indo-European *med- Proto-Indo-European *-os Proto-Italic *medos Latin modus Latin commodusnom. Latin commodum Proto-Indo-European *-h₂ Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂ Proto-Indo-European *-yéti Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂yéti Proto-Italic *-āō Latin -ō Latin commodō Latin accommodō Latin accommodātusbor. English accommodate 1530s, borrowed from Latin accommodātus, perfect passive participle of accommodō (see -ate (…

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