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Where does “ordinate” come from?

Ordinate comes from Latin ordināre, from Latin ōrdō meaning "row" or "order," from Proto-Italic ored(h)-, from Proto-Indo-European h₂er- meaning "to arrange" or "join."

ordinate (English): The second of the two terms by which a point is...

Definitions

  1. The second of the two terms by which a point is...

Ancestry of “ordinate”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Latinordinatusarranged, ordered, having been put in order,...
2Latinōrdinō—

Words derived from “ordinate”

  • ordinately
  • disordinate
  • disordinately
  • unordinate
  • unordinately
  • foreordinate
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