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Where does “ordinaire” come from?

Ordinaire comes from French ordinaire, from Latin ordinarius meaning "ordered or arranged," derived from the Latin suffix -arius combined with a root from Proto-Indo-European h₂er-.

ordinaire (English): Wine for ordinary use; A soldier's mess; A person...

Definitions

  1. Wine for ordinary use; A soldier's mess; A person...

Ancestry of “ordinaire”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Frenchordinaireordinary; the ordinary, the usual
2Old Frenchordinairea diocesan church official; judge ordinary;...
3Latinōrdinārius—
4Latin-ārius—
5Proto-Italic*-āzios—
Every word from Proto-Italic *-āzios →