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English
Noun
ordre (countable and uncountable, plural ordres)
- Obsolete form of order.
Verb
ordre (third-person singular simple present ordres, present participle ordring, simple past and past participle ordred)
- Obsolete form of order.
Anagrams
Catalan
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)
- order, organization, discipline
- Antonym: desordre
- order (arrangement in a series, e.g. alphabetically)
- order (social category)
- (biology, architecture, mathematics) order
- (military) order, formation (e.g. of battle)
Derived terms
Noun
ordre f (plural ordres)
- order, command
- (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)
- order (command,)
- order (request for some product or service)
Declension
Derived terms
Further reading
French
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)
- order (way in which things are arranged)
- ordre alphabétique ― alphabetical order
- ordre des mots ― word order
- order (group)
- les ordres militaires ― military orders
- (law) order (calm)
- region (used in estimations)
- un chiffre de l’ordre de 2 millions ― a number in the region of 2 million/a number around 2 million/2 million or so
- kind, sort
- order (tidiness)
- order (instruction)
- Il m’a donné l’ordre de tirer ― he gave me the order to shoot
- sur ordre du gouvernement ― under the government's orders
- (finance) order
- (taxonomy) order
- c’est de l’ordre des siréniens ― from the order of sirenians
- (architecture) classical order
Descendants
Further reading
Anagrams
German
Verb
ordre
- inflection of ordern:
- first-person singular present
- first/third-person singular subjunctive I
- singular imperative
Middle English
Noun
ordre
- (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)
- an order (command, instruction)
- an order (for goods)
References
Norwegian Nynorsk
Etymology
From French ordre.
Pronunciation
Noun
ordre m (definite singular ordren, indefinite plural ordrar, definite plural ordrane)
- order, command
- order (request for some product or service)
References
Occitan
Etymology
From Old Occitan , from Latin ordo, ordinem.
Noun
ordre m (plural ordres)
- order (command; instruction)