ordinate

See also: Ordinate

English

A point in the Cartesian plane; y is the ordinate.

Etymology

Partly inherited from Middle English ordinat(e) (adjective and participle), partly directly borrowed from Latin ōrdinātus, perfect passive participle of ōrdinō, see -ate (etymology 1, 2 and 3). Doublet of ordain.

Sense 5 of the verb is from a back-formation from ordination.

Pronunciation

noun, adjective

• IPA^(key): /ˈɔː(ɹ)dɪnət/

• Audio (Southern England):

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verb

• IPA^(key): /ˈɔː(ɹ)dɪneɪt/

• Audio (Southern England):

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Noun

ordinate (plural ordinates) [from 1676]

1. (geometry) The second of the two terms by which a point is referred to, in a system of fixed rectilinear coordinate (Cartesian coordinate) axes.

   Coordinate term: abscissa

   Hypernym: coordinate

   The point $(3,2)$ has 3 as its abscissa and 2 as its ordinate.

2. (geometry) The vertical line representing an axis of a Cartesian coordinate system, on which the ordinate (sense above) is shown.

   Hypernym: axis

Related terms

• ordain
• order
• ordinal
• ordinance, ordnance
• ordinary
• ordinate
• ordination
• ordo

With prefixes

• coordinate, coordination
• foreordination
• insubordination
• postordination
• preordination
• reordination
• subordinate, subordination
• subordination
• superordination

Translations

y coordinate; second of two coordinates

• Armenian: օրդինատ (hy) (ōrdinat)
• Bulgarian: ордина́та f (ordináta)
• Catalan: ordenada (ca) f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 縱坐標 / 纵坐标 (zòngzuòbiāo)

• Dutch: ordinaat (nl) f
• Finnish: ordinaatta (fi)
• French: ordonnée (fr) f
• German: Ordinate (de) f
• Greek: τεταγμένη (el) f (tetagméni)
• Italian: ordinata (it)
• Japanese: 縦座標 (tatezahyō)
• Polish: rzędna (pl) f
• Portuguese: ordenada (pt) f
• Russian: ордина́та (ru) f (ordináta)
• Spanish: ordenada (es) f
• Tagalog: tayuwat
• Vietnamese: tung độ (vi)

vertical axis

• Bulgarian: ордина́та f (ordináta) ордина́тна ос f (ordinátna os)
• German: Hochachse f
• Japanese: 縦軸 (ja) (tatejiku)
• Polish: rzędna (pl) f

Verb

ordinate (third-person singular simple present ordinates, present participle ordinating, simple past and past participle ordinated)

1. (transitive) To align a series of objects.
2. (transitive, uncommon) To ordain a priest, or consecrate a bishop. [from 1508]

   Synonym: (much more common) ordain

3. (transitive, now rare) To order or regulate; to control, govern, or direct. [from 1595]
4. (transitive, obsolete) To institute, establish; to ordain; to predestine. [1555–1850]
5. (transitive, statistics, ecology) To subject to the mathematical operation of ordination. [from 1962]
6. (obsolete) past participle of ordinate [c. 1425-1649]

Derived terms

• foreordinate

Related terms

• ordination

Translations

to ordain a priest or consecrate a bishop

• Bulgarian: ръкопола́гам (bg) (rǎkopolágam)
• Hebrew: הִסְמִיךְ (hismích)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: ordinere

• Polish: święcić (pl), wyświęcić (pl)
• Spanish: ordenar (es), tonsurar (es), ordinar

to align a series of objects

• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: ordne (no)

• Polish: równać (pl), wyrównać (pl)
• Spanish: alinear (es)

Adjective

ordinate (comparative more ordinate, superlative most ordinate)

1. (rare after the 17th c., of someone) Observant of order, keeping within set limits; moderate, temperate [from c. 1395]

   Synonyms: tidy, orderly, regular

2. (obsolete, of things) Conforming to order or rule, ordered, regulated, regular, orderly. [c. 1398-1668]

   ordinate power

3. (entomology, rare) Arranged regularly in a row or rows. [from 1826]
4. (geometry, obsolete) Of a figure: having all its sides and angles equal. [1590-1702]
5. (mathematics, obsolete, only in Euclid translations) Relating to an ordered series of ratios. [1570-1862]

   ordinate proportionality; ordinate proportion

Derived terms

• disordinate
• ordinate axis
• ordinate dimension
• ordinately
• semiordinate
• unordinate

Translations

arranged regularly in rows; orderly; disposed or arranged in an orderly or regular fashion.

• Bulgarian: подреде́н (bg) (podredén)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: ordnet

• Spanish: ordenado (es)

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Translations to be checked

• Indonesian: ^{(please verify)} ordinat (id)

See also

• inordinate

Anagrams

• andorite, arointed, deration, nadorite, rationed, read into

Italian

Noun

ordinate f

1. plural of ordinata

Adjective

ordinate f pl

1. feminine plural of ordinato

Verb

ordinate

1. inflection of ordinare:
   1. second-person plural present indicative/subjunctive
   2. second-person plural imperative
   3. feminine plural past participle

Anagrams

• dentario, indorate, iterando, nodriate, ridonate, trenodia

Latin

Participle

ōrdināte

1. vocative masculine singular of ōrdinātus

References

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