"order (arrangement; command)" in seven languages
Meaningorder (arrangement; command)
Spanish
/ˈoɾden/
masc.inherited
Masculine for 'arrangement' (el orden), feminine for 'command' (la orden).
French
/ɔʁdʁ/
masc.inherited
Italian
/ˈordine/
masc.inherited
Portuguese
/ˈɔhdẽj/
fem.inherited
Feminine in Portuguese, unlike Spanish el orden.
Romanian
/ˈordine/
fem.borrowed · Italian ordine
Catalan
/ˈɔrdɾə/
masc.inherited
Masculine for 'arrangement'; for 'command' it is also used as feminine.
English
/ˈɔɹdɚ/
from Latin/French · Old French ordre
The Latin ancestor
ORDINEM (nom. ORDŌ)‘row, rank, order’
All six sisters descend from it, unless marked otherwise below.
The story
Italian keeps all of ORDINEM; Spanish dropped the middle vowel (orden), and French also turned the last n into r (Old French ordene → ordre). Spanish splits the meanings by gender.
English relatives: ordinary, ordinal, ordain, coordinate
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In a sentence
- esPon los libros en orden.
- frRange les livres dans l'ordre.
- itMetti i libri in ordine.
- ptColoque os livros em ordem.
- roPune cărțile în ordine.
- caPosa els llibres en ordre.
- enPut the books in order.