kontor

• Kontor

Attested since late 19th century. Learned borrowing from German Kontor and Middle Low German kontôr (“commercial branch; writing room; counting desk/table”), from Middle Dutch contoor, contoir, comptoir, from Middle French contoir, comptoir, from conter, compter (“to count”) + -oir (instrument sufffix). Doublet of cantore, computer, and counter.

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈkɒntɔː/

• Audio (Southern England):

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• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈkɑntɔɹ/
• Homophone: contour (one pronunciation)

kontor (plural kontors or kontore)

1. (historical) One of the four chief trading posts of the Hanseatic League that enjoyed a great degree of legal autonomy; located in Bruges, London, Bergen and Novgorod.

Borrowed from Middle Low German kontōr (“commercial branch; writing room; counting desk”), from Middle Dutch cantoor, cantoor, from Middle French contoir, comptoir, from conter, compter (“to count”) + -oir (instrument suffix), from Latin computāre (“calculate, compute”) and -tōrium.

• IPA^(key): ,

kontor n (singular definite kontoret, plural indefinite kontorer)

1. office

Estonian Wikipedia has an article on:

kontor

Wikipedia ^et

Akin to Danish kontor, German Kontor, Russian контора (kontora). Regardless of the intermediate, ultimately from Middle Low German kontôr, komtôr, komptor (“commercial branch; writing room; counting desk/table”), from Middle Dutch contoor, contoir, comptoir, from Middle French contoir, comptoir, from conter, compter (“to count”) + -oir (instrument sufffix), from Latin computāre and -tōrium.

• IPA^(key): /ˈkontor/

kontor (genitive kontori, partitive kontorit)

1. office

This noun needs an inflection-table template.

• postkontor

• IPA^(key): /konˈtɔr/

kontor

1. future infinitive of kontar

Norwegian Wikipedia has an article on:

kontor

Wikipedia ^no

From Danish kontor, see above.

kontor n (definite singular kontoret, indefinite plural kontor or kontorer, definite plural kontora or kontorene)

1. an office

• “kontor” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Norwegian Nynorsk Wikipedia has an article on:

kontor

Wikipedia ⁿⁿ

Borrowed from Danish kontor either directly or through Norwegian Bokmål kontor, see above.

kontor n (definite singular kontoret, indefinite plural kontor, definite plural kontora)

1. an office

• “kontor” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Since late 16th century, borrowed from Middle Low German kontôr, komtôr, komptor (“commercial branch; writing room; counting desk/table”), from Middle Dutch contoor, contoir, comptoir, from Middle French contoir, comptoir, from conter, compter (“to count”) + -oir (instrument suffix).

• Audio:

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kontor n

1. office; building or room

• → Finnish: konttori

• kontor in Svenska Akademiens ordböcker
• kontor in Elof Hellquist, Svensk etymologisk ordbok (1st ed., 1922)