ordinalis

Latin

Etymology

Etymology tree

Proto-Indo-European *h₂er-der.

Proto-Italic *ordōder.

Latin ōrdō

Proto-Indo-European *h₂el-der.?

Proto-Italic *-ālis

Latin -ālis

Latin ōrdinālis

From ōrdō (“order”) + -ālis.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [oːr.dɪˈnaː.lɪs]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [or.diˈnaː.lis]

Adjective

ōrdinālis (neuter ōrdināle); third-declension two-termination adjective

1. ordinal

Declension

Third-declension two-termination adjective.

	singular			plural
	masc./fem.	neuter		masc./fem.	neuter
nominative	ōrdinālis	ōrdināle		ōrdinālēs	ōrdinālia
genitive	ōrdinālis			ōrdinālium
dative	ōrdinālī			ōrdinālibus
accusative	ōrdinālem	ōrdināle		ōrdinālīs ōrdinālēs	ōrdinālia
ablative	ōrdinālī			ōrdinālibus
vocative	ōrdinālis	ōrdināle		ōrdinālēs	ōrdinālia

Related terms

• ōrdō

References

• “ordinalis”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “ordinalis”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.