ordinaire
English
Etymology
French ordinaire
Noun
ordinaire (countable and uncountable, plural ordinaires)
- Wine for ordinary use.
- A soldier's mess.
- A person of common rank.
French
Etymology
From Old French ordinaire, borrowed from Latin ōrdinārius, from Latin ōrdō (whence French ordre) + -ārius (whence -aire).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ɔʁ.di.nɛʁ/
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Adjective
ordinaire (plural ordinaires)
- ordinary
- mediocre
- (Quebec) rude, discourteous, shabby
Noun
ordinaire m (plural ordinaires)
- (with the definite article) the ordinary, the usual
Derived terms
- d'ordinaire
- extraordinaire
- sortir de l'ordinaire
- ordinairement
Further reading
- “ordinaire”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Old French
Alternative forms
- ordenaire
- ordenarie
- ordinarie
Etymology
First known attestation in 1260 as ordenaire[1], borrowed from Latin ōrdinārius.
Noun
ordinaire m (oblique plural ordinaires, nominative singular ordinaires, nominative plural ordinaire) (chiefly Anglo-Norman)
- a diocesan church official
- (law) judge ordinary
- (Antiquity) ordinarius, a Roman soldier
- ordainer; one who may confer a title
- (Christianity) ordinary (book, manual)
Adjective
ordinaire m (oblique and nominative feminine singular ordinaire)
- ordinary; usual
- (law) ordinary (of a judge, etc.)
Descendants
- English: ordinary
- French: ordinaire
References
- Etymology and history of “ordinaire”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
- Godefroy, Frédéric, Dictionnaire de l'ancienne langue française et de tous ses dialectes du IXe au XVe siècle (1881) (ordinaire, supplement)
- ordenaire on the Anglo-Norman On-Line Hub