My thoughts exactly: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Concatenation https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Concatenation Concatenate is the more popular form over cate

My thoughts exactly: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Concatenation https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Concatenation Concatenate is the more popular form over catenate, though it's interesting to see that it only started to leap ahead in the 60s and 70s: https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=Catenate%2C+concatenate&case_insensitive=on&year_start=1800&year_end=2000&corpus=15&smoothing=3&share=&direct_url=t4%3B%2CCatenate%3B%2Cc0%3B%2Cs0%3B%3Bcatenate%3B%2Cc0%3B%3BCatenate%3B%2Cc0%3B%3BCATENATE%3B%2Cc0%3B.t4%3B%2Cconcatenate%3B%2Cc0%3B%2Cs0%3B%3Bconcatenate%3B%2Cc0%3B%3BConcatenate%3B%2Cc0%3B%3BCONCATENATE%3B%2Cc0 https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=Catenate%2C+co...