English

Noun

ordo ‎(plural ordines or ordos)

1. (music) A musical phrase constructed from one or more statements of one modal pattern and ending in a rest.
2. (Roman Catholicism) A calendar which prescribes the Mass and office which is to be celebrated each day.

See also

• pontifical

Anagrams

• door
• odor
• rood

Esperanto

Noun

ordo ‎(accusative singular ordon, plural ordoj, accusative plural ordojn)

1. order

Derived terms

• ordigi

Italian

Adjective

ordo m ‎(feminine singular orda, masculine plural ordi, feminine plural orde)

1. ugly, horrible, deformed

Anagrams

• doro, d'oro, dorò
• odor
• rodo, rodò

Latin

Etymology

From Proto-Italic *ord-n- ‎(“row, order”). Maybe from Proto-Indo-European *h₂or-d-, from *h₂er-, whence artus.^[1]

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈoːr.doː/

Noun

ōrdō m ‎(genitive ōrdinis); third declension

1. a methodical series, arrangement, or order; regular line, row, or series
2. a class, station, condition, rank
3. a group (of people) of the same class, caste, station, or rank ("senatorii ordinis")
4. (military) A rank or line of soldiers; band, troop, company
5. (military) command, captaincy, generalship

Inflection

Third declension.

Derived terms

Related terms

Descendants

References

• ordo in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• ordo in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• ORDO in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• Félix Gaffiot (1934), “ordo”, in Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette.
• Meissner, Carl; Auden, Henry William (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
  • chronology: temporum ratio, descriptio, ordo
    
  • to narrate events in the order of their occurrence: res temporum ordine servato narrare
    
  • to detail the whole history of an affair: ordine narrare, quomodo res gesta sit
    
  • the order of words: ordo verborum (Or. 63. 214)
    
  • the alphabet: litterarum ordo
    
  • to arrange in alphabetical order: ad litteram or litterarum ordine digerere
    
  • the senatorial order: ordo senatorius (amplissimus)
    
  • the equestrian order; the knights: ordo equester (splendidissimus)
    
  • people of every rank and age: homines omnium ordinum et aetatum
    
  • with close ranks; with ranks in disorder: confertis, solutis ordinibus
    
  • in open order: raris ordinibus
    
  • to fight in open order: laxatis (opp. confertis) ordinibus pugnare
    
  • (ambiguous) to systematise, classify a thing: in ordinem redigere aliquid
    
  • (ambiguous) to observe the chronological order of events: temporum ordinem servare
    
  • (ambiguous) to keep the ranks: ordines servare (B. G. 4. 26)
    
  • (ambiguous) to break the ranks: ordines turbare, perrumpere
    
• ordo in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• ordo in Ramminger, Johann (accessed 16 July 2016) Neulateinische Wortliste: Ein Wörterbuch des Lateinischen von Petrarca bis 1700, pre-publication website, 2005-2016
• ordo in William Smith et al., editor (1890) A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin

1. ↑ De Vaan, Michiel (2008) Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill