ordre

English

Noun

ordre (countable and uncountable, plural ordres)

1. Obsolete form of order.

Verb

ordre (third-person singular simple present ordres, present participle ordring, simple past and past participle ordred)

1. Obsolete form of order.

Anagrams

• Doerr, Order, Roder, derro, order

Catalan

Alternative forms

• orde (Western, southern, and Balearic)
• olda (Alghero)

Etymology

Inherited from Old Catalan ordre~orde~orden, from Latin ōrdinem. The plural form órdens, with conservation of the Latin /n/, is still used in Valencia and Ibiza. Compare Occitan ordre, French ordre.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic) [ˈɔr.dɾə]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [ˈoɾ.ðɾe]

Noun

ordre m (plural ordres)

1. order, organization, discipline

   Antonym: desordre

2. order (arrangement in a series, e.g. alphabetically)
3. order (social category)
4. (biology, architecture, mathematics) order
5. (military) order, formation (e.g. of battle)

Derived terms

• desordre
• Nou Ordre Mundial
• ordre alfabètic
• ordre de magnitud

 

Noun

ordre f (plural ordres)

1. order, command
2. (computing) command

Derived terms

• ordre d'arrest

Related terms

• orde
• ordenar

References

• “ordre” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “ordre”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2024
• “ordre” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “ordre” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

Danish

Etymology

From French ordre, from Latin ōrdō (“order”). Doublet of orden.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɔrˀdrə/, [ˈɒˀd̥ʁɐ]

Noun

ordre c (singular definite ordren, plural indefinite ordrer)

1. order (command,)
2. order (request for some product or service)

Declension

Declension of ordre

common gender	Singular		Plural
	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative	ordre	ordren	ordrer	ordrerne
genitive	ordres	ordrens	ordrers	ordrernes

Derived terms

• beordre
• ordrebeholdning
• købsordre
• marchordre
• ordrebeholdning
• postordre

Further reading

• “ordre” in Den Danske Ordbog

French

Etymology

Inherited from Old French ordre, ordene, borrowed from Latin ōrdinem (accusative of ōrdo). Doublet of the inherited orne, now a regional term with a specialized agricultural sense.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɔʁdʁ/

• Audio:

  (file)

Noun

ordre m (plural ordres)

1. order (way in which things are arranged)

   ordre alphabétique ― alphabetical order

   ordre des mots ― word order

2. order (group)

   les ordres militaires ― military orders

3. (law) order (calm)
4. region (used in estimations)

   un chiffre de l’ordre de 2 millions ― a number in the region of 2 million/a number around 2 million/2 million or so

5. kind, sort
6. order (tidiness)
7. order (instruction)

   Il m’a donné l’ordre de tirer ― he gave me the order to shoot

   sur ordre du gouvernement ― under the government's orders

8. (finance) order
9. (taxonomy) order

   c’est de l’ordre des siréniens ― from the order of sirenians

10. (architecture) classical order

Related terms

• dans le même ordre d’idées
• de premier ordre
• de second ordre
• désordre
• en ordre
• en ordre dispersé
• forces de l’ordre
• jusqu’à nouvel ordre
• mise en ordre
• mot d’ordre
• ordinaire
• ordonner
• ordre de bataille
• ordre de grandeur
• ordre des mots
• ordre du jour
• ordre du Temple
• ordre établi
• ordre permanent
• ordre public
• rappeler à l’ordre
• rentrer dans l’ordre
• service d’ordre

 

Descendants

• → Danish: ordre
• → Norwegian Bokmål: ordre
• → Norwegian Nynorsk: ordre

Further reading

• “ordre”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Anagrams

• dorer, roder, rôder

German

Verb

ordre

1. inflection of ordern:
   1. first-person singular present
   2. first/third-person singular subjunctive I
   3. singular imperative

Middle English

Noun

ordre

1. (rare) Alternative form of ordure

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From Latin ordo, via French ordre.

Pronunciation

• Audio:

  (file)

Noun

ordre m (definite singular ordren, indefinite plural ordrer, definite plural ordrene)

1. an order (command, instruction)
2. an order (for goods)

References

• “ordre” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From French ordre.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈɔrdrə/

Noun

ordre m (definite singular ordren, indefinite plural ordrar, definite plural ordrane)

1. order, command
2. order (request for some product or service)

References

• “ordre” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Occitan

Etymology

From Old Occitan [Term?], from Latin ordo, ordinem.

Noun

ordre m (plural ordres)

1. order (command; instruction)

Related terms

• ordenar