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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

  1. extraordinary

Ancestry of “extraordinär”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Frenchextraordinaireextraordinary, out of the ordinary
2Latinextraordinārius—
3Latinōrdinem—
4Middle Low Germanorden—
5Latinōrdināre—
6Latinōrdō—
7Proto-Italicored(h)-to arrange
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