Other forms: locations
A location is a real place used for filming instead of a set. On location, a filming location, scout locations.
Shooting on location means using a real place rather than building it in a studio, which is cheaper for some things and far dearer for others. A location scout finds them. The general sense is simply a place or position: the location of the office. Note that location, location, location is the estate agent's answer to what determines the value of property.
1nounlocationA real place used for filming instead of a set.
“The crew spent a month filming on location in a small Scottish village.”
2nounpositionA place or position.
“The hotel is in a great location, close to the beach and the shops.”
Too few real examples of this word to estimate which sense is commonest.
location is a place.
Latin locatio comes from locare, to place, from locus, a place. Local, locate and lieu come from the same place.
Proto-Indo-European
*stel-
Latin
locatio — a placing
English, today
location
Built from
Borrowed from Latin locatio (“a placing”), from locare (“to place, put, set, let”), from locus (“a place”). Equivalent to locate + ion.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA