Ordovician

See also: ordovician

English

Etymology

Etymology tree

Proto-Indo-European *h₃erg-der.?

Proto-Indo-European *dʰeh₁-der.?

Proto-Celtic *ordosder.

Proto-Indo-European *weyk-der.

Proto-Celtic *wiketider.

Latin Ordovīcēslbor.

English Ordovices

Latin -iānusbor.

English -ian

English Ordovician

From Ordovices +‎ -ian. Coined by English geologist Charles Lapworth in 1879 after the Celtic tribe of the Ordovices.

Adjective

Ordovician (comparative more Ordovician, superlative most Ordovician)

1. (geology) Of a geologic period within the Paleozoic era; comprises lower, middle and upper epochs from about 488 to 443 million years ago.
   • 2022, Thomas Halliday, Otherlands, Penguin, published 2023, page 205:

     Against the dark Ordovician gabbro, the black volcanic base, Rhynie is a streak of technicolour.

Proper noun

Ordovician

1. (geology) The Ordovician period.

Translations

Ordovician period

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 奧陶紀 / 奥陶纪 (zh) (Àotáo Jì)

• Czech: ordovik m
• Estonian: ordoviitsium
• Finnish: ordoviikkikausi (fi)
• German: Ordovizium (de) n
• Greek: Ορδοβίκια f (Ordovíkia)
• Hungarian: ordovícium (hu)
• Japanese: オルドビス紀 (ja) (オルドビスき, Ordobisu-ki)
• Mongolian:

  Cyrillic: Ордовикийн галав (Ordovikiin galav)

  Mongolian: ᠣᠷᠳᠣᠸᠢᠺ ᠦᠨ
  ᠭᠠᠯᠪᠠ (ordowik-ün ɣalba)

• Portuguese: Ordoviciano m, Ordovícico m
• Russian: ордови́кский пери́од m (ordovíkskij períod), ордови́к (ru) m (ordovík)
• Spanish: Ordovícico (es)
• Swedish: ordovicium (sv) c
• Vietnamese: kỉ Oóc-đô-vít

See also

• Appendix:Geologic timescale