English
ornative
Ornative comes from Latin ornō ‘to equip, adorn’, 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 equip, adorn’
- Englishearliest quotation 2008ornative
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 equip, adorn’
- Englishearliest quotation 2008ornative
Earliest quotation: 2008, Thomas Stolz, Sonja Kettler: “The languages are ordered according to increasing number of…”
Linked words
through Proto-Indo-European *h₂er- ‘to fit, to fix, to put together, to slot’
reason, art, ready, order, army, article, rate, arm, artist, alarm, harmony, ratio, armor, arthritis, anarchy, harmonic, arithmetic, articulate, harmonious, inert, artisan, armament, aristocratic, articulation, armadillo, harmonize, rta, archon, rime, artifice, armature, harmonium, inordinate, arche, 73 more
through Latin ōrdō ‘a methodical series, arrangement, or order’
ordinary, coordinate, coordination, subordinate, ordination, ordinate, ordinal, ordain, ordinator, ordo, 8 more
through Latin ornō ‘to equip, adorn’
Today it means
noun A noun case that means "endowed with" or "supplied with".
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / Latin ōrdō / ornative