ore

See also: Ore, Ore., oré, orë, óre, ôre, öre, øre, and -ore

English

Etymology

From Middle English or, oor, blend of Old English ōra (“ore, unwrought metal”) and ār (“brass, copper, bronze”), the first a derivate of ear (“earth”), the second from Proto-Germanic *aiz (cognates Old Norse eir (“brass, copper”), German ehern (“of metal, of iron”), Gothic 𐌰𐌹𐌶 (aiz, “ore”)), from Proto-Indo-European *áyos, h₂éyos. Compare Dutch oer (“iron-holding earth”). Confer Latin aes (“bronze, copper”), Avestan ayah, Sanskrit अयस् (áyas, “copper, iron”).

Pronunciation

• (General American) enPR: ôr, IPA^(key): /ɔɹ/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ɔː/
• (rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger) enPR: ōr, IPA^(key): /o(ː)ɹ/
• (non-rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger) IPA^(key): /oə/

• Audio (US)

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• Rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)
• Homophones: oar, o'er; or (in accents with the horse-hoarse merger); aw, awe (in non-rhotic accents with the horse–hoarse merger)

Noun

ore (countable and uncountable, plural ores)

1. Rock that contains utilitarian materials; primarily a rock containing metals or gems which—at the time of the rock's evaluation and proposal for extraction—are able to be separated from its neighboring minerals and processed at a cost that does not exceed those materials' present-day economic values.
   • 2014 April 21, “Subtle effects”, in The Economist, volume 411, number 8884:

     Manganism has been known about since the 19th century, when miners exposed to ores containing manganese, a silvery metal, began to totter, slur their speech and behave like someone inebriated.

Translations

rock that contains materials that can be economically extracted and processed

• Arabic: رِكَاز m (rikāz)
• Bulgarian: руда (bg) f (ruda)
• Catalan: mena (ca) f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 礦石 (zh), 矿石 (zh) (kuàngshí)

• Czech: ruda (cs) f
• Danish: malm (da) c
• Dutch: erts (nl) n
• Esperanto: erco (eo)
• Estonian: maak
• Faroese: málmur m
• Finnish: malmi (fi)
• French: minerai (fr) m
• Georgian: მადანი (madani)
• German: Erz (de) n
• Greek: μετάλλευμα (el) n (metállevma)
• Hebrew: עַפְרָה (he) f (afrá)
• Hungarian: érc (hu)
• Icelandic: málmgrýti (is)
• Irish: mianach m
• Italian: minerale (it) m
• Japanese: 鉱石 (ja) (こうせき, kōseki)
• Korean: 광석 (ko) (gwangseok)

• Latgalian: ruda f
• Latin: ruda f
• Latvian: rūda (lv)
• Lithuanian: rūda
• Luxembourgish: Äerz n
• Malay: bijih
• Norwegian: malm (no)
• Polish: ruda (pl)
• Portuguese: minério (pt) m
• Romanian: minereu (ro) n
• Russian: руда́ (ru) f (rudá)
• Serbo-Croatian: ruda (sh) f
• Slovak: ruda (sk)
• Slovene: ruda (sl) f
• Spanish: mena (es) f, mineral (es) m
• Swedish: malm (sv) c
• Tagalog: dukalin, dulang
• Telugu: ఖనిజము (te) (khanijamu)
• Ukrainian: руда (ruda)
• Vietnamese: quặng (vi)
• Volapük: mün (vo)
• Welsh: mwyn (cy) m

See also

• ore on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• o'er
• roe, Roe, ROE

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Afrikaans

Noun

ore

1. plural of oor

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Basque

Noun

ore

1. dough

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Galician

Verb

ore

1. first-person singular present subjunctive of orar
2. third-person singular present subjunctive of orar

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Guaraní

Pronoun

ore

1. us
2. our

See also

Guaraní personal pronouns

	singular	plural
1st person	che	ore (exclusive) ñande (inclusive)
2nd person	nde	peẽ
3rd person	ha'e	ha'ekuéra, hikuái

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Italian

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -ore

Noun

ore f

1. plural of ora

Anagrams

• ero, Ero, reo

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Japanese

Romanization

ore

1. Rōmaji transcription of おれ

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Latin

Noun

ōre n

1. ablative singular of ōs

References

• ore in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers

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Middle Dutch

Etymology

From Old Dutch ōra, from Proto-Germanic *ausô.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈoːrə/

Noun

ôre n

1. ear

Descendants

• Dutch: oor

Further reading

• “ore”, in Vroegmiddelnederlands Woordenboek, 2000
• “ore (I)”, in Middelnederlandsch Woordenboek, 1929

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Middle French

Etymology

Old French ore.

Adverb

ore

1. now
   • 15th century, Rustichello da Pisa (original author), Mazarine Master (scribe), The Travels of Marco Polo, page 4, line 2:

     des choses lesquelles nous ne conterons pas ore

     of things we will not speak of now

Descendants

• French: or

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Middle High German

Etymology

From Old High German ōra, from Proto-Germanic *ausô.

Noun

ore n

1. ear

Descendants

• German: Ohr

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Middle Low German

Pronunciation

• Stem vowel: ô²
  • (originally) IPA^(key): /ɔːrə/

Etymology

From Old Saxon ōra, from Proto-Germanic *ausô.

Noun

ôre n

1. ear

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Novial

Noun

ore c (plural ores)

1. gold

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Old French

Etymology 1

Alternative forms

• or
• ores

Adverb

ore

1. now

Descendants

• French: or (archaic)

Etymology 2

From Ancient Greek ὥρα (hṓra), from Latin hōra

Alternative forms

• hore
• eure
• heure

• eur
• heur

Noun

ore f (oblique plural ores, nominative singular ore, nominative plural ores)

1. hour; time, period of the day (period of time)
   • circa 1170, Chrétien de Troyes, Érec et Énide:

     quel haste avez,
     Qui a tel ore vos levez?

     What haste do you have

     That wakes up at this time of day?

Descendants

• English: hour
• French: heure
• Norman: heure, houre (continental Norman), heuthe (Jersey), haeure (Guernsey)

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Portuguese

Verb

ore

1. First-person singular (eu) present subjunctive of orar
2. Third-person singular (ele, ela, also used with tu and você^?) present subjunctive of orar
3. Third-person singular (você) affirmative imperative of orar
4. Third-person singular (você) negative imperative of orar

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Romanian

Noun

ore f pl

1. plural of oră

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Spanish

Verb

ore

1. Formal second-person singular (usted) imperative form of orar.
2. First-person singular (yo) present subjunctive form of orar.
3. Formal second-person singular (usted) present subjunctive form of orar.
4. Third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted^?) present subjunctive form of orar.

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Tarantino

Noun

ore

1. gold