ordinaire
English edit
Etymology edit
Noun edit
ordinaire (countable and uncountable, plural ordinaires)
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French edit
Etymology edit
Inherited from Old French ordinaire, borrowed from Latin ōrdinārius, from Latin ōrdō (whence French ordre) + -ārius (whence -aire).
Pronunciation edit
Adjective edit
ordinaire (plural ordinaires)
Noun edit
ordinaire m (plural ordinaires)
Derived terms edit
Further reading edit
- “ordinaire”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Old French edit
Alternative forms edit
Etymology edit
First known attestation in 1260 as ordenaire,[1] borrowed from Latin ōrdinārius.
Noun edit
ordinaire oblique singular, m (oblique plural ordinaires, nominative singular ordinaires, nominative plural ordinaire) (chiefly Anglo-Norman)
- a diocesan church official
- (law) judge ordinary
- (Antiquity) ordinarius, a Roman soldier
- ordainer; one who may confer a title
- (Christianity) ordinary (book, manual)
Adjective edit
ordinaire m (oblique and nominative feminine singular ordinaire)
Descendants edit
References edit
- ^ Etymology and history of “ordinaire”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
- Godefroy, Frédéric, Dictionnaire de l’ancienne langue française et de tous ses dialectes du IXe au XVe siècle (1881) (ordinaire, supplement)
- ordenaire on the Anglo-Norman On-Line Hub