ort
English edit
Etymology edit
From Middle English orte, from Old English *orǣta (“that which is left after eating”, literally “out-eat”), equivalent to or- + eat. Cognate with Middle Low German orte (“refuse of food”), Middle Dutch ooraete, ooreete, Low German ort (“ort”), Middle High German urez, German Uräß.
Pronunciation edit
- (Received Pronunciation) enPR: ôt, IPA(key): /ɔːt/
- (US) enPR: ôrt, IPA(key): /ɔːɹt/
- Homophones: aught, ought (in non-rhotic accents)
- Rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)t
Noun edit
ort (plural orts)
- (archaic, usually in the plural) A fragment; a scrap of leftover food; any remainder; a piece of refuse.
- 1861, George Eliot, chapter III, in Silas Marner, page 40:
- […] the rich ate and drank freely, […] their feasting caused a multiplication of orts, which were the heirlooms of the poor.
- 1922, James Joyce, Ulysses:
- Come, Kinch, you have eaten all we left. Ay, I will serve you your orts and offals.
- 1997, Thomas Pynchon, Mason & Dixon:
- Peace, Grandam,– reclaim thy Ort. The Learnèd One has yet to sink quite that low.
Synonyms edit
- (fragment): bit, chip; See also Thesaurus:piece
- (leftover food): gubbins, leftover, scrap
- (any remainder): remnant, residue; See also Thesaurus:remainder
- (a piece of refuse): garbage, rubbish; See also Thesaurus:trash
Translations edit
Verb edit
ort (third-person singular simple present orts, present participle orting, simple past and past participle orted)
- (transitive, dialectal) To turn away from with disgust; refuse.
Anagrams edit
Daur edit
Pronunciation edit
Etymology 1 edit
From Proto-Mongolic *urtu, compare Mongolian урт (urt).
Adjective edit
ort
Etymology 2 edit
From Manchu ᠣᡴᡨᠣ (okto, “medicine, drug, poison, gunpowder”) or otherwise from Proto-Tungusic *okta (“medicine”).
Borrowed before Daur rhotacism.
Noun edit
ort
Friulian edit
Etymology edit
Noun edit
ort m (plural orts)
Related terms edit
Irish edit
Etymology edit
Pronunciation edit
Pronoun edit
ort (emphatic ortsa)
- second-person singular of ar: on you sg
Manx edit
Etymology edit
Pronoun edit
ort
Derived terms edit
- orts (emphatic)
Old High German edit
Etymology edit
From Proto-West Germanic *oʀd, from Proto-Germanic *uzdaz. Cognate with Old English ord, Old Norse oddr.
Noun edit
ort m
- sharp point
Descendants edit
Old Norse edit
Participle edit
ort
- inflection of ortr:
Polish edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from German Ort.[1][2]
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
ort m inan
- (historical) ort (type of small silver coin, minted in the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth in the 16th–17th centuries)
Declension edit
References edit
- ^ Stanisław Dubisz, editor (2003), “ort”, in Uniwersalny słownik języka polskiego [Universal dictionary of the Polish language][1] (in Polish), volumes 1-4, Warsaw: Wydawnictwo Naukowe PWN SA, →ISBN
- ^ Mirosław Bańko, Lidia Wiśniakowska (2021) “ort”, in Wielki słownik wyrazów obcych, →ISBN
Further reading edit
Romanian edit
Etymology edit
Noun edit
ort m (plural orți)
- a quarter thaler coin
Declension edit
References edit
Scottish Gaelic edit
Etymology edit
From Old Irish fort. Cognates include Irish ort and Manx ort.
Pronunciation edit
Pronoun edit
ort
- second-person singular of air: on you
Inflection edit
| Personal inflection of air | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Number | Person | Simple | Emphatic | ||||||
| Singular | 1st | orm | ormsa | ||||||
| 2nd | ort | ortsa | |||||||
| 3rd m | air | airsan | |||||||
| 3rd f | oirre | oirrese | |||||||
| Plural | 1st | oirnn | oirnne | ||||||
| 2nd | oirbh | oirbhse | |||||||
| 3rd | orra | orrasan | |||||||
Swedish edit
Etymology 1 edit
From Middle Low German ort, from Old Saxon ord, from Proto-West Germanic *oʀd, from Proto-Germanic *uzdaz (“sharp point, place”).
Cognate with Middle English ord, North Frisian od (“tip, place, beginning”), Dutch oord (“place, region”), German Ort (“location, place, position”), Danish od (“a point”), Swedish udd (“a point, prick”), Icelandic oddur (“tip, point of a weapon, leader”).
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
ort c
- (inhabited) place, location; a group of houses (of any size: hamlet, village, town, city...)
- (mining) adit (horizontal tunnel in a mine)
Declension edit
| Declension of ort | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Singular | Plural | |||
| Indefinite | Definite | Indefinite | Definite | |
| Nominative | ort | orten | orter | orterna |
| Genitive | orts | ortens | orters | orternas |
Derived terms edit
- (place): bostadsort, centralort, födelseort, småort, tätort, på ort och ställe
Etymology 2 edit
Clipping of förort (“suburb”).
Noun edit
ort c
- (colloquial, often definite) Chiefly a suburb; sometimes a neighbourhood or local area.
- 2021 June 10, Haris Agic, “Orten är inget problem. Orten är en lösning!”, in Folkbildningsrådet[2], archived from the original on 20 July 2022:
- Så vad är sanningen om förorten? Sanningen är att orten varken saknar drömmar eller kompetens. Det är allas vårt ansvar att se till att möjliggöra dessa drömmar och frigöra all denna kompetens. Orten är inget problem – orten är en lösning!
- So what is the truth about the suburb? The truth is that the ort lacks neither dreams nor competence. It is the responsibility of all of us to make these dreams possible and release all this competence. The ort is not a problem – the ort is a solution!
- 2022 July 19, Beatrice Emmerik, 0:10 from the start, in Här testar Raho att cykla för första gången [Here, Raho is testing cycling for the first time][3], spoken by Aisha Mohammed, SVT Nyheter:
- Så vi har valt att skapa en cykelkurs för mammor för vi vill hjälpa mammorna i våra orter och vårt samhälle att lära sig cykla.
- So we have chosen to create a cycling course for mothers because we want to help the mothers in our neighbourhoods and our community to learn to ride a bike.
- (by extension) Anything (e.g. fashion, style or language) with sociocultural associations to certain suburbs.
Related terms edit
References edit
- ort in Svensk ordbok (SO)
- ort in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
- ort in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)
Anagrams edit
Tocharian A edit
Noun edit
ort m