Definitions and meaning of ort
ort
English
Etymology
From Middle English orte, from Old English *oreta (“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 and also German Ort (“quarter (of a thaler, etc)”). As the term for a coin, probably borrowed from the central European languages which used it: German Ort (“quarter (of a thaler)”), Polish ort (“coin”), etc.
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) enPR: ôt, IPA(key): /ɔːt/
- (General American) enPR: ôrt, IPA(key): /oɹt/
- Homophones: aught, ought (non-rhotic)
- Rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)t
- (without the horse–hoarse merger)
- (rhotic) IPA(key): /ɔːɹt/
- (non-rhotic) IPA(key): /ɔːt/
Noun
ort (plural orts)
- (usually in the plural) A fragment; a scrap of leftover food; any remainder; a piece of refuse.
- (historical) A small coin, formerly used in central Europe.
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
Verb
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
- OTR, ROT, RTO, TOR, TRO, Tor, rot, tor
Daur
Pronunciation
Etymology 1
From Proto-Mongolic *urtu, compare Mongolian урт (urt).
Adjective
ort
- long
Etymology 2
From Manchu ᠣᡴᡨᠣ (okto, “medicine, drug, poison, gunpowder”) or otherwise from Proto-Tungusic *okta (“medicine”).
Borrowed before Daur rhotacism.
Noun
ort
- gunpowder
French
Etymology
From Old French ort.
Pronunciation
Adjective
ort
- (When referring to the weighing of items) gross weight.
- (obsolete) dirty, rough
Synonyms
Antonyms
References
- “ort”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
- 2024 Linternaute.com.
Friulian
Etymology
From Latin hortus.
Noun
ort m (plural orts)
- vegetable garden
Related terms
Irish
Etymology
From Old Irish fort.
Pronunciation
Pronoun
ort (emphatic ortsa)
- second-person singular of ar: on you sg
Manx
Etymology
From Old Irish fort.
Pronoun
ort
- second-person singular informal of er
- on you
Derived terms
Old French
Alternative forms
Etymology
From Latin horridus.
Pronunciation
Adjective
ort m (oblique and nominative feminine singular orde)
- dirty
- ugly
- rough
Declension
Old High German
Etymology
From Proto-West Germanic *oʀd, from Proto-Germanic *uzdaz. Cognate with Old English ord, Old Norse oddr.
Noun
ort m
- sharp point
Descendants
- Middle High German: ort
- Bavarian: Oat
- German: Ort
- Luxembourgish: Uert
- Yiddish: אָרט (ort)
Old Norse
Participle
ort
- inflection of ortr:
- strong feminine nominative singular
- strong neuter nominative/accusative singular/plural
Polish
Etymology
Borrowed from German Ort.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈɔrt/
-
- Rhymes: -ɔrt
- Syllabification: ort
Noun
ort m inan
- (historical) ort (type of small silver coin, minted in the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth in the 16th–17th centuries)
Declension
References
Further reading
- ort in Polish dictionaries at PWN
- ort in PWN's encyclopedia
Romanian
Etymology
Borrowed from German Ort.
Noun
ort m (plural orți)
- a quarter thaler coin
Declension
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
- (Lewis, Harris, North Uist, Skye, Wester Ross) IPA(key): /ɔrˠs̪t̪/, [ɔ(ɻ)ʂt̪]
- (South Uist, Barra, Tiree) IPA(key): /ɔrˠs̪t̪/, [ɔs̪ˠt̪]
- (Perthshire) IPA(key): /ɔrˠʃtʲ/ (as if spelled oirt)
Pronoun
ort
- second-person singular of air: on you
Inflection
References
Slovincian
Etymology
Borrowed from German Art. Compare Kashubian ôrt.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈɔrt/
- Rhymes: -ɔrt
- Syllabification: ort
Noun
ort m inan
- type, kind, sort
Further reading
- Lorentz, Friedrich (1908) “ǻrṭ”, in Slovinzisches Wörterbuch[3] (in German), volume 1, Saint Petersburg: ОРЯС ИАН, page 8
Swedish
Etymology
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
Noun
ort c
- (inhabited) locality, place, location; a group of houses (of any size: hamlet, village, town, city...)
- (mining) adit (horizontal tunnel in a mine)
- clipping of förort (“suburb; smaller urban area in close proximity to a larger city”, literally “pre-locality”)
- (colloquial, often definite) Chiefly a suburb; sometimes a neighbourhood or local area.
- (by extension) Anything (e.g. fashion, style or language) with sociocultural associations to certain suburbs.
- ortenmode ― suburban fashion (multiethnic youth fashion)
- ortensvenska ― suburban Swedish (multiethnic youth Swedish)
Declension
Derived terms
- (place): bostadsort, centralort, födelseort, småort, tätort, på ort och ställe
Related terms
References
- ort in Svensk ordbok (SO)
- ort in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
- ort in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)
Anagrams
Tocharian A
Noun
ort m
- friend
Source: wiktionary.org