ort

See also Ort, and ört

English

Etymology

From Middle English ort, from Old English *orǣt (“that which is left after eating”, literally “out-eat”), equivalent to or- +‎ eat. Cognate with Middle Low German orte (“refuse of food”), Middle Dutch ooraete, ooreete, Low German ort (“ort”).

Pronunciation

• (RP) enPR: ôt, IPA: /ɔːt/, X-SAMPA: /O:t/
• (US) enPR: ôrt, IPA: /ɔːrt/, X-SAMPA: /O:rt/
• Homophone: aught (in non-rhotic accents), ought (in non-rhotic accents)

Noun

ort (plural orts)

1. (usually in plural orts) A fragment; a scrap of leftover food; any remainder; a piece of refuse.
   • 1922, James Joyce, Ulysses:

     Come, Kinch, you have eaten all we left. Ay, I will serve you your orts and offals.

   • 1997, Thomas Pynchon, Mason & Dixon:

     Peace, Grandam,– reclaim thy Ort. The Learnèd One has yet to sink quite that low.

Translations

a scrap of leftover

• Catalan: engruna (ca) f, resta (ca) m
• Finnish: tähde (fi)

• Spanish: migaja (es) f, resto (es) m

Verb

ort (third-person singular simple present orts, present participle orting, simple past and past participle orted)

1. (transitive, dialectal) To turn away from with disgust; refuse.

Anagrams

• OTR, rot, RTO, TOR, Tor, tor, TRO

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Irish

Etymology

• Old Irish fort.

Pronunciation

• IPA: [ɔɾˠt̪ˠ]

Pronoun

ort

1. 2nd person singular of ar

   on you singular

Derived terms

• ortsa (emphatic)

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Manx

Etymology

• Old Irish fort.

Pronoun

ort

1. 2nd person singular informal of er

   on you

Derived terms

• orts (emphatic)

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Old High German

Etymology

Proto-Germanic *uzdaz, whence Old English ord, Old Norse oddr

Noun

ort m

1. sharp point

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Scottish Gaelic

Etymology

• Old Irish fort.

Pronunciation

• IPA: /ɔr̴st/

Pronoun

ort

1. on you (informal singular)

Derived terms

• ortsa

See also

• oirbh
• prepositional pronoun

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Swedish

Pronunciation

• Audio

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Noun

ort c

1. (inhabited) place, location; a group of houses (of any size: hamlet, village, town, city...)
2. horizontal tunnel in a mine

Declension

Declension of ort

	singular		plural
Common	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative	ort	orten	orter	orterna
genitive	orts	ortens	orters	orternas

Derived terms

• (place): bostadsort, centralort, föedelseort, småort, tätort, på ort och ställe