English
ornify
Ornify comes from Latin ornō ‘to adorn, to decorate’, 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 CEornōas ōrnāre‘to adorn, to decorate’
- Englishearliest quotation 1902ornify
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 CEornōas ōrnāre‘to adorn, to decorate’
- Englishearliest quotation 1902ornify
Earliest quotation: 1902, Werner's Readings and Recitations: “Mist' Abram, he done went an' bought dis here…”
Linked words
through Proto-Indo-European *h₂er- ‘to fit, to fix, to put together, to slot’
reason, art, ready, order, rate, article, army, artist, arm, ratio, alarm, harmony, armor, arthritis, articulate, anarchy, arithmetic, artisan, aristocratic, inertia, harmonic, articulation, inert, armament, harmonious, armadillo, rta, armature, archon, rime, harmonize, inordinate, artifice, arche, harmonium, 71 more
through Latin ōrdō ‘a methodical series, arrangement, or order’
ordinary, coordination, coordinate, subordinate, ordination, ordinate, ordinator, ordinal, ordain, ordo, 7 more
through Latin ornō ‘to adorn, to decorate’
Today it means
verb To ornament.
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / Latin ōrdō / ornify