English
orn
Orn comes from Latin ornō ‘to furnish, equip, outfit, prepare’, and goes back to ōrdō ‘a methodical series, arrangement, or order’.
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEōrdō‘a methodical series, arrangement, or order’
- Latin, derivedc. 75 BCE–200 CEornō‘to furnish, equip, outfit, prepare’
- Old Frenchc. 842–1400orner
- Englishearliest quotation 1545orn
attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed
Earlier history uncertain.
Lineage
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEōrdō‘a methodical series, arrangement, or order’
- Latin, derivedc. 75 BCE–200 CEornō‘to furnish, equip, outfit, prepare’
- Old Frenchc. 842–1400orner
- Englishearliest quotation 1545orn
Earliest quotation: 1545, George Joye: “God stered vp prophetes and orned his chirche with…”
Linked words
through Proto-Indo-European *h₂er- ‘to fit, to fix, to put together, to slot’
reason, art, ready, rate, article, order, army, artist, arm, ratio, alarm, harmony, arthritis, armor, 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, ordination, ordinate, ordinator, ordinal, ordain, ordo, 8 more
through Latin ornō ‘to furnish, equip, outfit, prepare’
Today it means
verb To ornament; to adorn.
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / Latin ōrdō / orn