Other forms: accommodated, accommodating, accommodates
To accommodate is to make room for somebody, or to bend to their needs. Accommodate four hundred guests, accommodate the change, happy to accommodate.
Of a building it means to have room for: the hall accommodates about four hundred. Of a person it means adapting to what they need, which is where reasonable adjustments and accessibility come in. Note accommodation, which in British English means somewhere to live and in American means the adjustment made; and that accommodate is one of the most misspelled words in English — two c's and two m's.
1verbroomTo have room for somebody or something.
“The hotel can accommodate up to two hundred guests.”
2verbaccommodateTo bend to somebody's needs.
“The school tries to accommodate pupils with special dietary needs.”
accommodate is a fitting in.
Latin accommodare is ad- plus commodus, fitting or convenient — from com plus modus, a measure. Accommodating somebody is fitting them to the measure, and commodity comes from the same convenience.
Latin
accommodātus
English, today
accommodate
Built from
Borrowed from Latin accommodātus. First use appears c. the 1530s, Latin accommodātus, perfect passive participle of accommodō (see -ate and -ate), from ad- (“to, towards, at”) + commodō (“to provide, lend; to make fit, accommodate”), from con- + modus (“measure, proportion, limit”) + -ō (see English mode).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA