ordinaire

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English

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Etymology

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From French ordinaire.

Noun

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ordinaire (countable and uncountable, plural ordinaires)

  1. Wine for ordinary use.
  2. A soldier's mess.
  3. A person of common rank.
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Dutch

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Pronunciation

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  • Audio:(file)
  • Hyphenation: or‧di‧nai‧re

Adjective

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ordinaire

  1. inflection of ordinair:
    1. masculine/feminine singular attributive
    2. definite neuter singular attributive
    3. plural attributive

French

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Etymology

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Inherited from Old French ordinaire, borrowed from Latin ōrdinārius, from Latin ōrdō (whence French ordre) + -ārius (whence -aire).

Pronunciation

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Adjective

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ordinaire (plural ordinaires)

  1. ordinary
  2. mediocre
  3. (Quebec) rude, discourteous, shabby

Noun

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ordinaire m (plural ordinaires)

  1. (with the definite article) the ordinary, the usual

Derived terms

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Further reading

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Old French

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Alternative forms

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Etymology

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First known attestation in 1260 as ordenaire,[1] borrowed from Latin ōrdinārius.

Noun

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ordinaire oblique singularm (oblique plural ordinaires, nominative singular ordinaires, nominative plural ordinaire) (chiefly Anglo-Norman)

  1. a diocesan church official
  2. (law) judge ordinary
  3. (Antiquity) ordinarius, a Roman soldier
  4. ordainer; one who may confer a title
  5. (Christianity) ordinary (book, manual)

Adjective

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ordinaire m (oblique and nominative feminine singular ordinaire)

  1. ordinary; usual
  2. (law) ordinary (of a judge, etc.)

Descendants

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  • English: ordinary
  • French: ordinaire

References

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  1. ^ Etymology and history of ordinaire”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.