ort
English
Etymology
From Middle English orte, from Old English *orǣta (“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)
- (usually in the plural) A fragment; a scrap of leftover food; any remainder; a piece of refuse.
- 1861, George Eliot, chapter III, in Silas Marner, page 40:
- […] the rich ate and drank freely, […] their feasting caused a multiplication of orts, which were the heirlooms of the poor.
- 1922, James Joyce, Ulysses:
- Come, Kinch, you have eaten all we left. Ay, I will serve you your orts and offals.
- 1997, Thomas Pynchon, Mason & Dixon:
- Peace, Grandam,– reclaim thy Ort. The Learnèd One has yet to sink quite that low.
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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
Daur
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ɔrtʰ/
Etymology 1
From Proto-Mongolic *urtu, compare Mongolian урт (urt).
Etymology 2
From Manchu ᠣᡴᡨᠣ (okto, “medicine, drug, poison, gunpowder”) or otherwise from Proto-Tungusic *okta (“medicine”).
Borrowed before Daur rhotacism.
Irish
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ɔɾˠt̪ˠ/
Manx
Old High German
Etymology
From Proto-West Germanic *oʀd, from Proto-Germanic *uzdaz. Cognate with Old English ord, Old Norse oddr.
Old Norse
Participle
ort
- inflection of ortr:
- strong feminine nominative singular
- strong neuter nominative/accusative singular/plural
Romanian
Declension
singular | plural | |||
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indefinite articulation | definite articulation | indefinite articulation | definite articulation | |
nominative/accusative | (un) ort | ortul | (niște) orți | orții |
genitive/dative | (unui) ort | ortului | (unor) orți | orților |
vocative | ortule | orților |
References
- ort in Academia Română, Micul dicționar academic, ediția a II-a, Bucharest: Univers Enciclopedic, 2010. →ISBN
Scottish Gaelic
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ɔrˠs̪t/
Swedish
Etymology 1
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/
Audio (file)
Noun
ort c
Declension
Declension of ort | ||||
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Singular | Plural | |||
Indefinite | Definite | Indefinite | Definite | |
Nominative | ort | orten | orter | orterna |
Genitive | orts | ortens | orters | orternas |
Derived terms
- (place): bostadsort, centralort, födelseort, småort, tätort, på ort och ställe
Etymology 2
Clipping of förort (“suburb”).
Noun
ort c
- (colloquial, often definite) Chiefly a suburb; sometimes a neighbourhood or local area.
- 2021 June 10, Haris Agic, “Orten är inget problem. Orten är en lösning!”, in Folkbildningsrådet:
- Så vad är sanningen om förorten? Sanningen är att orten varken saknar drömmar eller kompetens. Det är allas vårt ansvar att se till att möjliggöra dessa drömmar och frigöra all denna kompetens. Orten är inget problem – orten är en lösning!
- So what is the truth about the suburb? The truth is that the ort lacks neither dreams nor competence. It is the responsibility of all of us to make these dreams possible and release all this competence. The ort is not a problem – the ort is a solution!
- 2022 July 19, Beatrice Emmerik, Här testar Raho att cykla för första gången [Here, Raho is testing cycling for the first time], SVT Nyheter, spoken by Aisha Mohammed, 0:10 from the start:
- Så vi har valt att skapa en cykelkurs för mammor för vi vill hjälpa mammorna i våra orter och vårt samhälle att lära sig cykla.
- So we have chosen to create a cycling course for mothers because we want to help the mothers in our neighbourhoods and our community to learn to ride a bike.
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- (by extension) Anything (e.g. fashion, style or language) with sociocultural associations to certain suburbs.