English
ornatrix
Ornatrix comes from Latin ōrnātrīx ‘hairdresser, tirewoman, adorner’, 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 CEōrnō‘to adorn’
- Latin, derivedc. 75 BCE–200 CEōrnātrīx‘hairdresser, tirewoman, adorner’
- Englishtodayornatrix
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 CEōrnō‘to adorn’
- Latin, derivedc. 75 BCE–200 CEōrnātrīx‘hairdresser, tirewoman, adorner’
- Englishtodayornatrix
Linked words
through Proto-Indo-European *h₂er- ‘to fit, to fix, to put together, to slot’
reason, art, ready, order, article, army, rate, artist, arm, alarm, ratio, harmony, armor, arthritis, articulate, anarchy, harmonic, artisan, arithmetic, inertia, harmonious, inert, armament, aristocratic, articulation, armadillo, harmonize, rta, artifice, archon, armature, rime, harmonium, inordinate, arche, 72 more
through Latin ōrdō ‘a methodical series, arrangement, or order’
ordinary, coordination, coordinate, subordinate, ordination, ordinate, ordinal, ordain, ordinator, ordo, 8 more
through Latin ōrnō ‘to adorn’
Today it means
noun A tirewoman, an adorner.
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / Latin ōrdō / ornatrix