Other forms: coordinates, coordinated, coordinating
A coordinate is a number that fixes a position on a grid. Map coordinates, the x coordinate, give me the coordinates.
Two of them fix a point on a plane and three fix one in space, and the order is a convention you must know — latitude before longitude, but x before y. As a verb, to coordinate is to make separate efforts work together. The Latin means to arrange together.
1nouncoordinateA number that fixes a position on a grid.
“Enter the coordinates into the map, and it will show you the exact spot.”
2verbseparateTo make separate efforts work together.
“Her job is to coordinate the work of the builders, plumbers and electricians.”
coordinate is a number, or an organising.
The Latin is to arrange together, from the same order you already have. To coordinate is to put everyone in one order, working off one plan.
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Medieval Latin coordinare means to arrange together, from co- plus ordinare, to order, from ordo, order.
Medieval Latin
coōrdinātus
English, today
coordinate
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From Medieval Latin coōrdinātus, perfect passive participle of coōrdinō (“arrange together”), from co- + ōrdinō, equivalent to co + ordinate. See -ate for more. See also ordain and ordinate.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA