ort

See also: Ort, ORT, ört, and ôrt

English

Etymology

From Middle English orte, from Old English *oreta (“that which is left after eating”, literally “out-eat”), equivalent to or- +‎ eat. Cognate with Middle Low German orte (“refuse of food”), Middle Dutch ooraete, ooreete, Low German ort (“ort”), Middle High German urez, German Uräß and also German Ort (“quarter (of a thaler, etc)”). As the term for a coin, probably borrowed from the central European languages which used it: German Ort (“quarter (of a thaler)”), Polish ort (“coin”), etc.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) enPR: ôt, IPA^(key): /ɔːt/
• (General American) enPR: ôrt, IPA^(key): /oɹt/
• Homophones: aught, ought (non-rhotic)
• Rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)t
• (without the horse–hoarse merger)
  • (rhotic) IPA^(key): /ɔːɹt/
  • (non-rhotic) IPA^(key): /ɔːt/

Noun

ort (plural orts)

1. (usually in the plural) A fragment; a scrap of leftover food; any remainder; a piece of refuse.
   • 1861, George Eliot, chapter III, in Silas Marner, page 40:

     […] the rich ate and drank freely, […] their feasting caused a multiplication of orts, which were the heirlooms of the poor.

   • 1922, James Joyce, Ulysses:

     Come, Kinch, you have eaten all we left. Ay, I will serve you your orts and offals.

   • 1997, Thomas Pynchon, Mason & Dixon:

     Peace, Grandam,– reclaim thy Ort. The Learnèd One has yet to sink quite that low.

2. (historical) A small coin, formerly used in central Europe.
   • 1872, Peter Lund Simmonds, The Commercial Dictionary of Trade Products, Manufacturing and Technical Terms ..., page 268:

     ORT (French), the gross weight; garbage or refuse; a Norwegian coin of 24 skillings, also called a mark, and equal to 9 1/2 d.; an Hungarian coin, containing 12 kreutzers; in Poland, 5 orts make a rix-dollar; also a Swedish money equal to 2 farthings, sometimes called a runstick.

   • 1915, The Numismatist: An Illustrated Monthly Magazine for Those Interested in Coins, Medals, and Paper Money, page 245:

     The coins of Sigismund III. range in value from […] the solidus, denarius, half gros, gros, 1 1/2 gros, 3 crucifer, 3 gros, 6 gros, quarter crown or thaler, (ort); half crown, crown, double crown, ducat, […] These coins are the solidus, 3 gros, 6 gros, ort (quarter thaler), thaler (crown); […]

Synonyms

• (fragment): bit, chip; See also Thesaurus:piece
• (leftover food): gubbins, leftover, scrap
• (any remainder): remnant, residue; See also Thesaurus:remainder
• (a piece of refuse): garbage, rubbish; See also Thesaurus:trash

Translations

a scrap of leftover

• Catalan: engruna (ca) f, resta (ca) m
• Finnish: tähde (fi)
• Russian: оста́тки (ru) (ostátki), объе́дки (ru) (obʺjédki)
• Spanish: migaja (es) f, resto (es) m

Verb

ort (third-person singular simple present orts, present participle orting, simple past and past participle orted)

1. (transitive, dialectal) To turn away from with disgust; refuse.

Anagrams

• OTR, ROT, RTO, TOR, TRO, Tor, rot, tor

Daur

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɔrtʰ/

Etymology 1

From Proto-Mongolic *urtu, compare Mongolian урт (urt).

Adjective

ort

1. long

Etymology 2

From Manchu ᠣᡴᡨᠣ (okto, “medicine, drug, poison, gunpowder”) or otherwise from Proto-Tungusic *okta (“medicine”).

Borrowed before Daur rhotacism.

Noun

ort

1. gunpowder

Friulian

Etymology

From Latin hortus.

Noun

ort m (plural orts)

1. vegetable garden

Related terms

• ortae

Irish

Etymology

From Old Irish fort.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɔɾˠt̪ˠ/

Pronoun

ort (emphatic ortsa)

1. second-person singular of ar: on you sg

Manx

Etymology

From Old Irish fort.

Pronoun

ort

1. second-person singular informal of er

   on you

Derived terms

• orts (emphatic)

Old High German

Etymology

From Proto-West Germanic *oʀd, from Proto-Germanic *uzdaz. Cognate with Old English ord, Old Norse oddr.

Noun

ort m

1. sharp point

Descendants

• Middle High German: ort
  • Bavarian: Oat
  • German: Ort
  • Luxembourgish: Uert
  • Yiddish: אָרט (ort)

Old Norse

Participle

ort

1. inflection of ortr:
   1. strong feminine nominative singular
   2. strong neuter nominative/accusative singular/plural

Polish

ort

Etymology

Borrowed from German Ort.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈɔrt/

• Audio:

  (file)

• Rhymes: -ɔrt
• Syllabification: ort

Noun

ort m inan

1. (historical) ort (type of small silver coin, minted in the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth in the 16th–17th centuries)

Declension

Declension of ort

	singular	plural
nominative	ort	orty
genitive	orta	ortów
dative	ortowi	ortom
accusative	ort	orty
instrumental	ortem	ortami
locative	orcie	ortach
vocative	orcie	orty

Further reading

• ort in Polish dictionaries at PWN
• ort in PWN's encyclopedia

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from German Ort.

Noun

ort m (plural orți)

1. a quarter thaler coin

Declension

	singular			plural
	indefinite	definite		indefinite	definite
nominative-accusative	ort	ortul		orți	orții
genitive-dative	ort	ortului		orți	orților
vocative	ortule			orților

References

• ort in Academia Română, Micul dicționar academic, ediția a II-a, Bucharest: Univers Enciclopedic, 2010. →ISBN

Scottish Gaelic

Etymology

From Old Irish fort. Cognates include Irish ort and Manx ort.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɔrˠs̪t̪/
• (Barra) IPA^(key): [ɔs̪ˠt̪]
• (Perthshire) IPA^(key): /ɔrˠʃtʲ/ (as if spelled oirt)

Pronoun

ort

1. second-person singular of air: on you

Inflection

Personal inflection of air
Number	Person	Simple	Emphatic
Singular	1st	orm	ormsa
	2nd	ort	ortsa
	3rd m	air	airsan
	3rd f	oirre	oirrese
Plural	1st	oirnn	oirnne
	2nd	oirbh	oirbhse
	3rd	orra	orrasan

Slovincian

Etymology

Borrowed from German Art. Compare Kashubian ôrt.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈɔrt/
• Rhymes: -ɔrt
• Syllabification: ort

Noun

ort m inan

1. type, kind, sort

Further reading

• Lorentz, Friedrich (1908) “ǻrṭ”, in Slovinzisches Wörterbuch‎^[2] (in German), volume 1, Saint Petersburg: ОРЯС ИАН, page 8

Swedish

Etymology

From Middle Low German ort, from Old Saxon ord, from Proto-West Germanic *oʀd, from Proto-Germanic *uzdaz (“sharp point, place”).

Cognate with Middle English ord, North Frisian od (“tip, place, beginning”), Dutch oord (“place, region”), German Ort (“location, place, position”), Danish od (“a point”), Swedish udd (“a point, prick”), Icelandic oddur (“tip, point of a weapon, leader”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ʊʈː/

• Audio:

  (file)

Noun

ort c

1. (inhabited) locality, place, location; a group of houses (of any size: hamlet, village, town, city...)
2. (mining) adit (horizontal tunnel in a mine)
3. Clipping of förort (“suburb; smaller urban area in close proximity to a larger city”, literally “pre-locality”).
   1. (colloquial, often definite) Chiefly a suburb; sometimes a neighbourhood or local area.
      • 2021 June 10, Haris Agic, “Orten är inget problem. Orten är en lösning! [The suburb is not a problem. The suburb is a solution!"]”, in Folkbildningsrådet‎^[3], archived from the original on 20 July 2022:

        Så vad är sanningen om förorten? Sanningen är att orten varken saknar drömmar eller kompetens. Det är allas vårt ansvar att se till att möjliggöra dessa drömmar och frigöra all denna kompetens. Orten är inget problem – orten är en lösning!

        So, what is the truth about the suburb? The truth is that the suburb lacks neither dreams nor competence. It is everyone’s responsibility to ensure these dreams are made possible and all this competence is unleashed. The suburb is not a problem – the suburb is a solution!

      • 2022 July 19, Beatrice Emmerik, 0:10 from the start, in Här testar Raho att cykla för första gången [Here, Raho is testing cycling for the first time]‎^[4], spoken by Aisha Mohammed, SVT Nyheter:

        Så vi har valt att skapa en cykelkurs för mammor för vi vill hjälpa mammorna i våra orter och vårt samhälle att lära sig cykla.

        So we have chosen to create a cycling course for mothers because we want to help the mothers in our neighbourhoods and our community to learn to ride a bike.

   2. (by extension) Anything (e.g. fashion, style or language) with sociocultural associations to certain suburbs.

      ortenmode ― suburban fashion (multiethnic youth fashion)

      ortensvenska ― suburban Swedish (multiethnic youth Swedish)

Declension

Declension of ort

		nominative	genitive
singular	indefinite	ort	orts
	definite	orten	ortens
plural	indefinite	orter	orters
	definite	orterna	orternas

Derived terms

• (place): bostadsort, centralort, födelseort, småort, tätort, på ort och ställe

Related terms

• orten

References

• ort in Svensk ordbok (SO)
• ort in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
• ort in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)

Anagrams

• Tor, rot, tro

Tocharian A

Noun

ort m

1. friend