Coordinated

How to spell coordinated

11 letters · 5 syllables

How to pronounce coordinated

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What does coordinated mean?

1. verbOrganised several people, tasks, or parts so that they worked together smoothly.
2. adjectiveWorking well together, or matching neatly as a deliberate set.

Coordinated in a sentence

• verb

  The team leader coordinated the rescue effort across three departments.

• adjective

  The dancers gave a remarkably coordinated performance.

• verb

  She coordinated the catering, the venue, and the guest list for the conference.

• adjective

  She wore a coordinated outfit in shades of grey and blue.

Where does coordinated come from?

Language of origin: Latin

This word traces back to the Latin noun ordo (genitive ordinis), which meant 'order', 'rank', or 'a row of threads in a loom', and which gave rise to the verb ordinare, 'to arrange or set in order'. Scholars in the 1600s built a new Latin-style compound by adding the prefix co-, meaning 'together', producing the idea of arranging several things together into one orderly whole. English took up the verb 'coordinate' in the seventeenth century, originally in the rather technical sense of placing things in the same rank or class, and only later in the everyday sense of making separate parts work smoothly together. The form 'coordinated' is simply the past tense and past participle, with the regular -ed ending. The same ordo root sits inside familiar relatives such as 'order', 'ordain', and 'subordinate', and the doubled o that opens the word (the prefix co- meeting the o of ordin-) is exactly the spot writers tend to fumble.

How the word is built

• co- (together)
• ordin- (from Latin ordo, ordinis: order, rank)
• -ate (verb-forming)
• -ed (past tense/participle)