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—
4Latinōrdinōto arrange, put in order, organize

Words derived from “ordinance”

Every word from Latin ōrdinō →Every word from Medieval Latin ordinans →Every word from Medieval Latin ordinantia →