Meanings
present singular third person concatenates · participle present concatenating · participle past concatenated · past concatenated
- To join or link together, as though in a chain.
Locke, by contrast, contended that [madness] was essentially a question of intellectual delusion, the capture of the mind by false ideas concatenated into a logical system of unreality.
2003, Roy Porter, Flesh in the Age of Reason, Penguin, published 2004, page 182 - transitivecomputingTo join (text strings) together.
Concatenating "shoe" with "string" yields "shoestring".
- not comparablebiologyJoined together as if in a chain.
The Nostocoid type consists of small rounded blue-green cells not over 5p. in diameter and arranged in chains which are often much broken up in the cephalodium, so that the concatenate arrangement is hardly apparent.
1947, Ivan Mackenzie Lamb, A monograph of the lichen genus Placopsis Nyl, page 166
Origin
- Proto-Indo-European*ḱe?
- Proto-Indo-European*ḱóm
- Proto-Italic*kom
- Proto-Italic*kom-
- Latincon-
- Proto-Italic*katesnā
- Latincatēna
- Latincatēnō
- Latinconcatēnō
- Latinconcatēnātus
- Englishconcatenate
From the perfect passive participle stem of Latin concatēnāre (“to link or chain together”), from con- (“with”) + catēnō (“chain, bind”), from catēna (“a chain”).
More words from Latin
Full word history & related roots →Translations
Basque kateatu
- kateatulink together
Bulgarian зацепвам, свързвам с верига
- зацепвам (zacepvam)link together
- свързвам с верига (svărzvam s veriga)link together
- навързвам (navărzvam)link together
- навържа (navărža)link together
Catalan concatenar
- concatenarlink together
Chinese Mandarin 串接, 連接 /连接
- 串接 (chuànjiē)link together
- 連接 /连接 (liánjiē)link together
- 串接 (chuànjiē)computing: to join two strings together
Czech zřetězit
- zřetězitlink together
Dutch aaneenschakelen, aaneenrijgen
- aaneenschakelenlink together
- aaneenrijgenlink together
- aaneenschakelencomputing: to join two strings together
Finnish ketjuttaa, ketjuttaa
- ketjuttaalink together
- ketjuttaacomputing: to join two strings together
- katenoidacomputing: to join two strings together
French enchaîner, concaténer
- enchaînerlink together
- concaténerlink together
- concaténercomputing: to join two strings together
German verknüpfen, konkatenieren
- verknüpfenlink together
- konkatenierenlink together
- verbindenlink together
- zusammenknüpfenlink together
- verkettenlink together
- verkettencomputing: to join two strings together
Greek συνενώνω
- συνενώνω (synenóno)computing: to join two strings together
Hungarian összekapcsol, összeköt
- összekapcsollink together
- összekötlink together
Icelandic skeyta saman
- skeyta samancomputing: to join two strings together
Latin concatenare
- concatenarelink together
Norwegian konkatenere
- konkatenerecomputing: to join two strings together
Polish łączyć w łańcuch, połączyć w łańcuch
- łączyć w łańcuchlink together
- połączyć w łańcuchlink together
- łączyć tekstowy typ danychcomputing: to join two strings together
- połączyć tekstowy typ danychcomputing: to join two strings together
Portuguese concatenar
- concatenarlink together
Russian соединя́ть, свя́зывать
- соединя́ть (sojedinjátʹ)link together
- свя́зывать (svjázyvatʹ)link together
- смыка́ть (smykátʹ)link together
- сцепля́ть (scepljátʹ)link together
- конкатени́ровать (konkatenírovatʹ)computing: to join two strings together
Spanish concatenar, concadenar
- concatenarlink together
- concadenarlink together
Turkish zincirleme bağlamak
- zincirleme bağlamaklink together
Cite this entry
concatenate. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/concatenate
“concatenate.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/concatenate. Accessed November 3, 2026.
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “concatenate,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/concatenate.
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