Third person singular present tense of catenate; to join things together in a chain.
From Latin 'catena' (chain) with the third-person singular present suffix '-s', derived from the verb 'catenate' which emerged in scientific English.
When a programmer writes code that 'catenates' strings, they're literally making a chain of words—it's the same mental image as linking physical chains together!
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