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,...
2Latinōrdinōto arrange, put in order, organize

Words derived from “ordinate”

Every word from Latin ōrdinō →Every word from Latin ordinatus →