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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 horsehoarse merger)
    • (rhotic) IPA(key): /ɔːɹt/
    • (non-rhotic) IPA(key): /ɔːt/

Noun

ort (plural orts)

  1. (usually in the plural) A fragment; a scrap of leftover food; any remainder; a piece of refuse.
  2. (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)

  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

French

Etymology

From Old French ort.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ɔʁ/, /ɔʁt/

Adjective

ort

  1. (When referring to the weighing of items) gross weight.
  2. (obsolete) dirty, rough

Synonyms

  • sale
  • brut

Antonyms

  • net

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)

  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 French

Alternative forms

  • or, ord, hort, orre

Etymology

From Latin horridus.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ɔrt/

Adjective

ort m (oblique and nominative feminine singular orde)

  1. dirty
  2. ugly
  3. 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

  1. sharp point

Descendants

  • Middle High German: ort
    • Bavarian: Oat
    • German: Ort
    • Luxembourgish: Uert
    • Yiddish: אָרט (ort)

Old Norse

Participle

ort

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

Polish

Etymology

Borrowed from German Ort.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈɔrt/
  • Rhymes: -ɔrt
  • Syllabification: ort

Noun

ort m inan

  1. (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)

  1. 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

  1. 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

  1. 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

  • IPA(key): /ʊʈː/

Noun

ort c

  1. (inhabited) locality, place, location; a group of houses (of any size: hamlet, village, town, city...)
  2. (mining) adit (horizontal tunnel in a mine)
  3. clipping of förort (suburb; smaller urban area in close proximity to a larger city, literally pre-locality)
    1. (colloquial, often definite) Chiefly a suburb; sometimes a neighbourhood or local area.
    2. (by extension) Anything (e.g. fashion, style or language) with sociocultural associations to certain suburbs.
      ortenmodesuburban fashion (multiethnic youth fashion)
      ortensvenskasuburban Swedish (multiethnic youth Swedish)

Declension

Derived terms

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

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

Source: wiktionary.org