ordre

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English

Noun

ordre (countable and uncountable, plural ordres)

  1. Obsolete form of order.

Verb

ordre (third-person singular simple present ordres, present participle ordring, simple past and past participle ordred)

  1. Obsolete form of order.

Anagrams

Catalan

Alternative forms

Etymology

Inherited from Old Catalan ordre~orde~orden, from Latin ōrdinem. The plural form órdens, with conservation of the Latin /n/, is still used in Valencia and Ibiza. Compare Occitan ordre, French ordre.

Pronunciation

Noun

ordre m (plural ordres)

  1. order, organization, discipline
    Antonym: desordre
  2. order (arrangement in a series, e.g. alphabetically)
  3. order (social category)
  4. (biology, architecture, mathematics) order
  5. (military) order, formation (e.g. of battle)

Derived terms

Noun

ordre f (plural ordres)

  1. order, command
  2. (computing) command

Derived terms

References

Danish

Etymology

From French ordre, from Latin ōrdō (order). Doublet of orden.

Pronunciation

Noun

ordre c (singular definite ordren, plural indefinite ordrer)

  1. order (command,)
  2. order (request for some product or service)

Declension

Derived terms

Further reading

French

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Etymology

Inherited from Old French ordre, ordene, borrowed from Latin ōrdinem (accusative of ōrdo). Doublet of the inherited orne, now a regional term with a specialized agricultural sense.

Pronunciation

Noun

ordre m (plural ordres)

  1. order (way in which things are arranged)
    ordre alphabétiquealphabetical order
    ordre des motsword order
  2. order (group)
    les ordres militairesmilitary orders
  3. (law) order (calm)
  4. region (used in estimations)
    un chiffre de l’ordre de 2 millionsa number in the region of 2 million/a number around 2 million/2 million or so
  5. kind, sort
  6. order (tidiness)
  7. order (instruction)
    Il m’a donné l’ordre de tirerhe gave me the order to shoot
    sur ordre du gouvernementunder the government's orders
  8. (finance) order
  9. (taxonomy) order
    c’est de l’ordre des siréniensfrom the order of sirenians
  10. (architecture) classical order

Descendants

  • Danish: ordre
  • Norwegian Bokmål: ordre
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: ordre

Further reading

Anagrams

German

Verb

ordre

  1. inflection of ordern:
    1. first-person singular present
    2. first/third-person singular subjunctive I
    3. singular imperative

Middle English

Noun

ordre

  1. (rare) Alternative form of ordure

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From Latin ordo, via French ordre.

Pronunciation

Noun

ordre m (definite singular ordren, indefinite plural ordrer, definite plural ordrene)

  1. an order (command, instruction)
  2. an order (for goods)

References

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From French ordre.

Pronunciation

Noun

ordre m (definite singular ordren, indefinite plural ordrar, definite plural ordrane)

  1. order, command
  2. order (request for some product or service)

References

Occitan

Etymology

From Old Occitan , from Latin ordo, ordinem.

Noun

ordre m (plural ordres)

  1. order (command; instruction)