Thoughts on the word 'locative'

The word 'locative' is becoming ubiquitous as a way of describing projects and research that look at the role location has on experience and behaviour. But where did the word originate?

As far as I can tell it is taken from the following book ; John Lyons, Semantics (Volume 2), Cambridge University Press.
pp. 690 ' Spatial expressions'
"How do we explain to someone where an object is? And how do we describe the spatial characteristics of particular objects - their extension in space and shape?

Places are not entities though they may be ..treated as entities in particular languages. As places are not entities, so entities are not places; but in so far as they occupy space, entities may serve to identify the spaces they occupy.

But mostly when we refer to place indirectly such as 'John is with Peter' then it refers to the entity it contains, and this is tantamount to treating the entity as a property of place.

For example in relating an entity (X) to a place (Y) in locative prepositions:

X be located at Y
which can be symbolized as
at X,Y
where here X is the locative subject"

......so, it's all in the prepositions