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Where does “ordinance” come from?

Ordinance comes from Old French ordenance, meaning an arrangement or regulation.

ordinance (English): A local law; An edict or decree, authoritative...

Definitions

  1. A local law; An edict or decree, authoritative...

Ancestry of “ordinance”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Old Frenchordenance—
2Medieval Latinordinantia—
3Medieval Latinordinans—
4Latinōrdinō—

Words derived from “ordinance”

  • preordinance
  • coordinance
  • antiordinance
  • ordinansa
  • ordinansa
Every word from Latin ōrdinō →