English
ordo
Ordo comes from Latin ōrdō ‘a methodical series, arrangement, or order’.
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEōrdō‘a methodical series, arrangement, or order’
- Englishtodayordo
attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed deepest recorded ancestor
Earlier history uncertain.
Lineage
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEōrdō‘a methodical series, arrangement, or order’
- Englishtodayordo
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, alarm, harmony, armor, arthritis, articulate, anarchy, arithmetic, harmonic, artisan, aristocratic, inertia, harmonious, articulation, inert, armament, armadillo, harmonize, rta, artifice, armature, archon, rime, inordinate, harmonium, arche, 72 more
through Latin ōrdō ‘a methodical series, arrangement, or order’
ordinary, coordination, coordinate, subordinate, ornament, ordination, ornate, ordinate, adorn, ordinator, ordinal, ordain, orn, 8 more
Today it means
noun A musical phrase constructed from one or more statements of one modal pattern and ending in a rest.
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / Latin ōrdō / ordo