Relocate comes from re- ('again') + locate, from Latin locatus, past participle of locare ('to place'), from locus ('place'). The historical chain includes Latin re-, Latin locare, and Latin locus. The quoted older senses, "again", "to place", and "place", supply the semantic anchors for relocate. The formation is best read as compound, participial, and borrowed: the word relocate carries its older form-history into a compact English lexical shape. In present English it is used as a verb, "to move to a new place". English derivatives include relocation, relocatable, and relocator; related English forms include locate, location, and local. The result is a verb whose etymology preserves both the older form and the later English specialization.