English
ordinal
Ordinal comes from Latin ōrdinālis, and goes back to ōrdō ‘order’.
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEōrdō‘order’
- Latin, derivedc. 75 BCE–200 CEōrdinālis
- Englishearliest quotation 2005ordinal
attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed deepest recorded ancestor
Earlier history uncertain.
Lineage
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEōrdō‘order’
- Latin, derivedc. 75 BCE–200 CEōrdinālis
- Englishearliest quotation 2005ordinal
Earliest quotation: 2005, F. M. Wheelock, Wheelock’s Latin: “The most common numerals in Latin, as in English,…”
Linked words
through Proto-Indo-European *h₂er- ‘to fit, to fix, to put together, to slot’
reason, art, ready, rate, article, army, order, artist, arm, ratio, harmony, alarm, armor, arthritis, articulate, arithmetic, harmonic, anarchy, artisan, aristocratic, harmonious, articulation, armament, inertia, inert, harmonize, rta, artifice, armature, armadillo, archon, rime, harmonium, arche, 76 more
through Latin ōrdō ‘order’
coordination, coordinate, ornament, adorn, ornate, subordinate, ordo, orn, ordain, inordinate, 11 more
Today it means
adj Indicating position in a sequence.
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / Latin ōrdō / ordinal