misplace
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misplace
- /mɪsˈpleɪs/
Rhymes with -eɪs
Where it comes from
Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *mey-?
Proto-Indo-European *meyth₂-der.
Proto-Germanic *missaz
Proto-Germanic *missa-
Proto-West Germanic *missa-
Old English mis-
Middle English mys-
English mis-
English place
English misplace
From mis- + place.
verb misplaces · misplacing · misplaced
- To put something somewhere and then forget its location; to mislay. I might have misplaced my umbrella; do you know where it is?
- To apply one's talents inappropriately. Bart Groothuijze, who runs the Castodian foundation promoting safer motorbiking, blames a misplaced sense of freedom and vanity.
- To put something in the wrong location. Every word in English of more than one Syllable has a fixed accent established by the custom of the language, to misplace which is as offensive to the propriety of speech, as to missound the vowel.
Similar: mislay
