See also: Ort, ORT, ört, and ôrt

EnglishEdit

EtymologyEdit

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.

PronunciationEdit

NounEdit

ort (plural orts)

  1. (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.

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VerbEdit

ort (third-person singular simple present orts, present participle orting, simple past and past participle orted)

  1. (transitive, dialectal) To turn away from with disgust; refuse.

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DaurEdit

PronunciationEdit

Etymology 1Edit

From Proto-Mongolic *urtu, compare Mongolian урт (urt).

AdjectiveEdit

ort

  1. long

Etymology 2Edit

From Manchu ᠣᡴᡨᠣ (okto, medicine, drug, poison, gunpowder) or otherwise from Proto-Tungusic *okta (medicine).

Borrowed before Daur rhotacism.

NounEdit

ort

  1. gunpowder

FriulianEdit

EtymologyEdit

From Latin hortus.

NounEdit

ort m (plural orts)

  1. vegetable garden

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IrishEdit

EtymologyEdit

From Old Irish fort.

PronunciationEdit

PronounEdit

ort (emphatic ortsa)

  1. second-person singular of ar: on you sg

ManxEdit

EtymologyEdit

From Old Irish fort.

PronounEdit

ort

  1. second-person singular informal of er
    on you

Derived termsEdit

Old High GermanEdit

EtymologyEdit

From Proto-West Germanic *oʀd, from Proto-Germanic *uzdaz. Cognate with Old English ord, Old Norse oddr.

NounEdit

ort m

  1. sharp point

DescendantsEdit

  • Middle High German: ort

Old NorseEdit

ParticipleEdit

ort

  1. inflection of ortr:
    1. strong feminine nominative singular
    2. strong neuter nominative/accusative singular/plural

RomanianEdit

EtymologyEdit

Borrowed from German Ort.

NounEdit

ort m (plural orți)

  1. a quarter thaler coin

DeclensionEdit

ReferencesEdit

  • ort in Academia Română, Micul dicționar academic, ediția a II-a, Bucharest: Univers Enciclopedic, 2010. →ISBN

Scottish GaelicEdit

EtymologyEdit

From Old Irish fort. Cognates include Irish ort and Manx ort.

PronunciationEdit

  • IPA(key): /ɔrˠs̪t̪/
  • (Perthshire) IPA(key): /ɔrˠʃtʲ/ (as if spelled oirt)

PronounEdit

ort

  1. second-person singular of air: on you

InflectionEdit

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

SwedishEdit

Etymology 1Edit

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).

PronunciationEdit

  • IPA(key): /ʊʈː/
  • (file)

NounEdit

ort c

  1. (inhabited) place, location; a group of houses (of any size: hamlet, village, town, city...)
  2. (mining) adit (horizontal tunnel in a mine)
DeclensionEdit
Declension of ort 
Singular Plural
Indefinite Definite Indefinite Definite
Nominative ort orten orter orterna
Genitive orts ortens orters orternas
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Etymology 2Edit

Clipping of förort (suburb).

NounEdit

ort c

  1. (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[1]:
      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, Här testar Raho att cykla för första gången [Here, Raho is testing cycling for the first time]‎[2], SVT Nyheter, spoken by Aisha Mohammed, 0:10 from the start:
      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.
  2. (by extension) Anything (e.g. fashion, style or language) with sociocultural associations to certain suburbs.
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Tocharian AEdit

NounEdit

ort m

  1. friend