Where does “extraordinär” come from?
extraordinär (Swedish) comes from French extraordinaire, from Latin extraordinārius, from Latin ōrdinem, from Middle Low German orden, from Latin ōrdināre, from Latin ōrdō, from Proto-Italic ored(h)- — to arrange.
extraordinär (Swedish): extraordinary
Definitions
- extraordinary
Ancestry of “extraordinär”, step by step
extraordinär traces back through 3 separate lines of ancestry.
via French extraordinaire
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | French | extraordinaire | extraordinary, out of the ordinary |
| 2 | Latin | extraordinārius | extraordinary |
| 3 | Latin | ōrdinem | — |
| 4 | Middle Low German | orden | — |
| 5 | Latin | ōrdināre | — |
| 6 | Latin | ōrdō | a methodical series, arrangement, or order; regular line, row, or series |
| 7 | Proto-Italic | ored(h)- | to arrange |
via German ordinär
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | German | ordinär | vulgar; ordinary |
| 2 | French | ordinaire | ordinary; the ordinary, the usual |
| 3 | Old French | ordinaire | a diocesan church official; judge ordinary;... |
| 4 | Latin | ōrdinārius | of or relating to order; orderly, usual, customary, regular, ordinary |
| 5 | Latin | -ārius | er |
| 6 | Proto-Italic | *-āzios | Forms relational adjectives to nouns (and rarely numerals) |