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
- Wine for ordinary use; A soldier's mess; A person...
Ancestry of “ordinaire”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | French | ordinaire | ordinary; the ordinary, the usual |
| 2 | Old French | ordinaire | a diocesan church official; judge ordinary;... |
| 3 | Latin | ōrdinārius | of or relating to order; orderly, usual, customary, regular, ordinary |
| 4 | Latin | -ārius | er |
| 5 | Proto-Italic | *-āzios | Forms relational adjectives to nouns (and rarely numerals) |