I received an e-mail at work where someone said something along the lines of:
“…the report was not configurated.”
Since I’ve never really heard of the word they used, wouldn’t it be more proper to say configured?
Is one preferred over the other in this scenario?
Answer
They each have their own uses, although some would argue configure can be used in place of configurate in most scenarios.
According to MWD and Dictionary.com,
Configurate
- to give or assign a form to
- to give a configuration, form, or design to
Configure
- to set up for operation especially in a particular way.
- to design or adapt to form a specific configuration or for some specific purpose
Configure should be used to describe the formation of a configuration.
Configurate can be used to describe the assignment of a configuration.
It should be noted that configurate is a back-formation of configure.
Given the little context you’ve given us, it appears the email did incorrectly use configurate. If you’d include the entire text with the question we would know for sure but it does appear they did mean configured, instead.
Attribution
Source : Link , Question Author : Boris Jakovljevic , Answer Author : Hank
