Other forms: communicating, communicated, communicates
To communicate is to share thoughts and information with others. Communicate clearly, communicate the decision, hard to communicate.
The sharing has to arrive: saying something is not communicating it, which is the whole complaint behind failure to communicate. It also means to transmit — a disease communicates itself — and two rooms that communicate have a door between them. Note that the Latin means to make common.
1verbcommunicateTo share thoughts and information with others.
“Since he lost his voice, he's had to communicate by writing notes.”
communicate is a sharing.
Latin communicare comes from communis, common. Community, common and communion come from the same sharing.
Proto-Indo-European
*mey- (change)
English, today
communicate
Built from
commūnicāt- + -ate, from commūnis + -icō. Compare French communiquer and its older (and now obsolete) English cognate from Middle French, communique.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA