ort
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
- (Received Pronunciation) enPR: ôt, IPA(key): /ɔːt/
- (US) enPR: ôrt, IPA(key): /ɔːɹt/
- Homophones: aught, ought (in non-rhotic accents)
- Rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)t
NounEdit
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.
SynonymsEdit
- (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
TranslationsEdit
VerbEdit
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.
AnagramsEdit
DaurEdit
PronunciationEdit
Etymology 1Edit
From Proto-Mongolic *urtu, compare Mongolian урт (urt).
AdjectiveEdit
ort
Etymology 2Edit
From Manchu ᠣᡴᡨᠣ (okto, “medicine, drug, poison, gunpowder”) or otherwise from Proto-Tungusic *okta (“medicine”).
Borrowed before Daur rhotacism.
NounEdit
ort
FriulianEdit
EtymologyEdit
NounEdit
ort m (plural orts)
Related termsEdit
IrishEdit
EtymologyEdit
PronunciationEdit
PronounEdit
ort (emphatic ortsa)
- second-person singular of ar: on you sg
ManxEdit
EtymologyEdit
PronounEdit
ort
Derived termsEdit
- orts (emphatic)
Old High GermanEdit
EtymologyEdit
From Proto-West Germanic *oʀd, from Proto-Germanic *uzdaz. Cognate with Old English ord, Old Norse oddr.
NounEdit
ort m
- sharp point
DescendantsEdit
Old NorseEdit
ParticipleEdit
ort
- inflection of ortr:
RomanianEdit
EtymologyEdit
NounEdit
ort m (plural orți)
- a quarter thaler coin
DeclensionEdit
ReferencesEdit
Scottish GaelicEdit
EtymologyEdit
From Old Irish fort. Cognates include Irish ort and Manx ort.
PronunciationEdit
PronounEdit
ort
- second-person singular of air: on you
InflectionEdit
Personal inflection of air | |||||||||
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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
NounEdit
ort c
- (inhabited) place, location; a group of houses (of any size: hamlet, village, town, city...)
- (mining) adit (horizontal tunnel in a mine)
DeclensionEdit
Declension of ort | ||||
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Singular | Plural | |||
Indefinite | Definite | Indefinite | Definite | |
Nominative | ort | orten | orter | orterna |
Genitive | orts | ortens | orters | orternas |
Derived termsEdit
- (place): bostadsort, centralort, födelseort, småort, tätort, på ort och ställe
Etymology 2Edit
Clipping of förort (“suburb”).
NounEdit
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[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.
- (by extension) Anything (e.g. fashion, style or language) with sociocultural associations to certain suburbs.
Related termsEdit
ReferencesEdit
- ort in Svensk ordbok (SO)
- ort in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
- ort in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)
AnagramsEdit
Tocharian AEdit
NounEdit
ort m