ort

See also: Ort, ORT, ört, and ôrt

English

Etymology

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

• (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

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.

Synonyms

• (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

a scrap of leftover

• Catalan: engruna (ca) f, resta (ca) m
• Finnish: tähde
• Russian: оста́тки (ru) (ostátki), объе́дки (ru) (obʺjédki)
• Spanish: migaja (es) f, resto (es) m

Verb

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.

Anagrams

• OTR, ROT, RTO, TOR, TRO, Tor, rot, tor

Daur

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɔrtʰ/

Etymology 1

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

Adjective

ort

1. long

Etymology 2

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

Borrowed before Daur rhotacism.

Noun

ort

1. gunpowder

Friulian

Etymology

From Latin hortus.

Noun

ort m (plural orts)

1. vegetable garden

Related terms

• ortae

Irish

Etymology

From Old Irish fort.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɔɾˠt̪ˠ/

Pronoun

ort (emphatic ortsa)

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

Manx

Etymology

From Old Irish fort.

Pronoun

ort

1. second-person singular informal of er

   on you

Derived terms

• orts (emphatic)

Old High German

Etymology

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

Noun

ort m

1. sharp point

Descendants

• Middle High German: ort
  • German: Ort
  • Luxembourgish: Uert

Old Norse

Participle

ort

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

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from German Ort.

Noun

ort m (plural orți)

1. a quarter thaler coin

Declension

Declension of ort

	singular		plural
	indefinite articulation	definite articulation	indefinite articulation	definite articulation
nominative/accusative	(un) ort	ortul	(niște) orți	orții
genitive/dative	(unui) ort	ortului	(unor) orți	orților
vocative	ortule		orților

References

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

Scottish Gaelic

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

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

Pronoun

ort

1. second-person singular of air: on you

Inflection

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

Etymology 1

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

• IPA^(key): /ʊʈː/

• Audio

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Noun

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)

Declension

Declension of ort
	Singular		Plural
	Indefinite	Definite	Indefinite	Definite
Nominative	ort	orten	orter	orterna
Genitive	orts	ortens	orters	orternas

Derived terms

• (place): bostadsort, centralort, födelseort, småort, tätort, på ort och ställe

Etymology 2

Clipping of förort (“suburb”).

Noun

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.

Related terms

• orten

References

• ort in Svensk ordbok (SO)
• ort in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
• ort in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)

Anagrams

• Tor, rot, tro

Tocharian A

Noun

ort m

1. friend