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3 letters words from 'ort'

ORT 3ROT 3
TOR 3 

2 letters words from 'ort'

OR 2TO 2

All 3 letters words made out of ort

ort rot otr tor rto tro

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Definitions and meaning of ort

ort

Etymology

From Middle English ort, from Old English *orǣt (“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. (usually in the plural) A fragment; a scrap of leftover food; any remainder; a piece of refuse.

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

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-Germanic *uzdaz, whence Old English ord, Old Norse oddr

Noun

ort m

  1. sharp point

Descendants

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

Scottish Gaelic

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ɔrˠs̪t/

Pronoun

ort

  1. second-person singular of air: on you

Inflection

Swedish

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ʊʈː/

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

Derived terms

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

Anagrams

  • Tor, rot, tro

Source: wiktionary.org
  • a leftover from a meal.
    (source: Collins Scrabble Dictionary)