noun · masculinethird declension
ōrdō
ōrdō m (genitive ōrdinis)
Classical[ˈoːr.doː]Ecclesiastical[ˈɔr.do]
№ 416 of the 1,000 commonest wordsMille Verba core vocabulary
Meaning
- a methodical series, arrangement, or order; regular line, row, or series
Fātum appellō ōrdinem seriemque causārum.
I recognize fate as the order and succession of causes. - a class, station, condition, rank
Eum absentem in amplissimum ōrdinem cooptāvērunt.
They elected him while he was absent to the most honorable class (to the Senate). - a group or body of people of the same class, caste, station, or rank ("vir senatorii ordinis")
“Refer,” inquis, “ad Senātum;” id enim postulās, et sī hic ōrdō placēre sibi dēcrēverit tē īre in exilium, optemperātūrum tē esse dīcis.
“Refer [the matter],” you say, “to the Senate;” for you demand it, and if this body decides that it is acceptable to them that you should go into exile, you say that you will comply.63 BCE, Cicero, In Catilinam orationes 1.20 - A rank or line of soldiers; band, troop, company
- command, captaincy, generalship
- EcclesiasticalLatina guide for the celebration of a liturgical rite, such as the Mass or the Liturgy of the Hours ("Ordo Romanus Primus", "Ordo Missae")
Latīnē defined in Latin in our graded readers
rēs aliae post aliās positae; etiam pars populī: ōrdō senātōrum.ōrdō -inis m — in Mille Verba, Urbs et Aedificia
Choosing the right word Döderlein's Latin Synonyms
Series · Ordo
Series (from serere, εἴρειν) means a row, as an outward, mechanical, accidental association of things, which, according to their nature, are of the like sort; whereas ordo (from ἀριθμός, ῥυθμός) an inward, ideal, necessary association of things, which, according to their destination, belong to one another. Series is a mathematical; ordo, a moral notion. (vi. 330.)
Declension
| form | singular | plural |
|---|---|---|
| nominative | ōrdō | ōrdinēs |
| genitive | ōrdinis | ōrdinum |
| dative | ōrdinī | ōrdinibus |
| accusative | ōrdinem | ōrdinēs |
| ablative | ōrdine | ōrdinibus |
| vocative | ōrdō | ōrdinēs |
Phrases from Meissner's Latin Phrase-Book
- litterarum ordo
- the alphabet.
- raris ordinibus
- in open order.
- temporum ordinem servare
- to observe the chronological order of events.
- ordo verborum (Or. 63. 214)
- the order of words.
- in ordinem redigere aliquid
- to systematise, classify a thing.
- ordines turbare, perrumpere
- to break the ranks.
- confertis, solutis ordinibus
- with close ranks; with ranks in disorder.
- ordo senatorius (amplissimus)
- the senatorial order.
8 more phrases
- ordines servare (B. G. 4. 26)
- to keep the ranks.
- ordo equester (splendidissimus)
- the equestrian order; the knights.
- temporum ratio, descriptio, ordo
- chronology.
- homines omnium ordinum et aetatum
- people of every rank and age.
- res temporum ordine servato narrare
- to narrate events in the order of their occurrence.
- ordine narrare, quomodo res gesta sit
- to detail the whole history of an affair.
- ad litteram or litterarum ordine digerere
- to arrange in alphabetical order.
- laxatis (opp. confertis) ordinibus pugnare
- to fight in open order.
ordo, ĭnis, m. from root or-; Sanscr. ar-, to go, strive upward; cf. orior, through an adj. stem ordo-; v. Corss. Krit. Beitr. p. 108,
I. a regular row, line, or series, methodical arrangement, order (class.; syn.: series, tenor).
I. In gen.:
ordinem sic definiunt compositionem rerum aptis et accommodatis locis, Cic. Off. 1, 40, 142: vis ordinis et collocationis, id. ib. 1, 40, 142: arbores in ordinem satae, i. e. planted in a quincunx, Varr. R. R. 1, 7; cf. Cic. Caecil. 8, 22; id. Sen. 17, 59.—B. Esp., right order, regular succession:
fatum appello ordinem seriemque causarum, Cic. Div. 1, 55, 125: nihil esse pulchrius in omni ratione vitae dispositione atque ordine, Col. 12, 2: adhibere modum quendam et ordinem rebus, Cic. Off. 1, 5, 17: mox referam me ad ordinem, will soon bring myself to order, return to order, id. Ac. 2, 20, 67: res in ordinem redigere, to reduce to order, Auct. Her. 3, 9, 16; so, in ordinem adducere, Cic. Univ. 3: ordinem conservare, id. Rosc. Com. 2, 6: eundem tenere, to preserve, id. Phil. 5, 13, 35: sequi, id. Brut. 69, 244: immutare, to change, id. Or. 63, 214: perturbare, to disturb, id. Brut. 62, 223: cogere or redigere in ordinem, to reduce to order, to humble, degrade: decemviri querentes, se in ordinem cogi, Liv. 3, 51; 3, 35; Plin. Ep. 1, 23, 1; Quint. 1, 4, 3; so, in ordinem redactus, Suet. Vesp. 15; cf. trop.: gula reprimenda et quasi in ordinem redigenda est, Plin. Ep. 2, 6, 5.—C. Adverb. expressions.
1. Ordine, in ordinem, per ordinem, in ordine, ex ordine, in order, in turn:
Hegioni rem enarrato omnem ordine, Ter. Ad. 3, 2, 53; Plaut. Capt. 2, 3, 17; Ter. Heaut. 4, 3, 28: interrogare, Cic. Part. 1, 2: tabulae in ordinem confectae, id. Rosc. Com. 2, 6: ordine cuncta exposuit, Liv. 3, 50, 4; 30, 15, 1: sortiti nocte singuli per ordinem, Quint. 4, 2, 72: hos Corydon, illos referebat in ordine Thyrsis, Verg. E. 7, 20; id. A. 8, 629: ut quisque aetate et honore antecedebat, ita sententiam dixit ex ordine, Cic. Verr. 2, 4, 64, § 143: ordine se vocante, when his turn came, Macr. S. 2, 2, § 12: in ordine vicis, Vulg. Luc. 1, 8.—2. Ordine, regularly, properly, appropriately:
omnia ut quidque Egisti ordine scio, Plaut. Ps. 5, 2, 15: rem demonstravi ordine, id. Mil. 3, 3, 2; id. Capt. 2, 3, 17 Brix ad loc.: an id recte, ordine, e re publicā factum esse defendes? Cic. Verr. 2, 3, 84, § 194: si hoc recte atque ordine factum videtur, id. Quint. 7, 28.—3. Ex ordine, in succession, without intermission:
vendit Italiae possessiones ex ordine omnes, Cic. Agr. 1, 2, 4: septem illum totos perhibent ex ordine menses Flevisse, Verg. G. 4, 507; cf. id. A. 5, 773.—4. Extra ordinem.
a. Out of course, in an unusual or extraordinary manner:
extra ordinem decernere provinciam alicui, Cic. Prov. Cons. 8, 19: crimina probantur, in an illegal manner, Dig. 48, 1, 8.—b. Extraordinarily, i. e. uncommonly, eminently, especially:
ad eam spem, quam extra ordinem de te ipso habemus, accedunt tua praecipua, Cic. Fam. 6, 5, 3.—II. Transf. concr.
A. In gen.
1. Tres ordines lapidum, three courses of stones, Vulg. 3 Reg. 6, 36.—In building, a row, course, or layer of stones, etc.:
obstructis in speciem portis singulis ordinibus caespitum, Caes. B. G. 5, 51: alius insuper ordo adicitur, id. ib. 7, 23: tot premit ordinibus caput, tiers or layers of ornaments, Juv. 6, 502. —2. A row of benches or seats:
terno consurgunt ordine remi, in three rows of oar-banks, Verg. A. 5, 120: sex ordinum navem invenit Xenagoras, Plin. 7, 56, 57, § 208.—In the theatre, a row of seats: post senatores ex vetere instituto quatuordecim graduum ordines equestri ordini assignati fuere, Suet. Aug. 44: sedisti in quatuordecim ordinibus, Cic. Phil. 2, 18, 44.—3. A train of servants or attendants:
comitum longissimus ordo, Juv. 3, 284.—B. In milit. lang.
1. A line or rank of soldiers in battle array:
auxilia regis nullo ordine iter fecerant, Caes. B. C. 2, 26: ne quisquam ordine egrederetur, Sall. J. 45, 2: nullo ordine commutato, id. ib. 101, 2: sine signis, sine ordinibus, id. ib. 97, 5; so, signa atque ordines observare, to keep the ranks, remain in line, id. ib. 51, 1: conturbare, id. ib. 50, 4: restituere, id. ib. 51, 3; Liv. 2, 50; 8, 8.—2. A band, troop, company of soldiers:
viri fortissimi atque honestissimi, qui ordines duxerunt, who have led companies, have been officers, Cic. Phil. 1, 8, 20: L. Pupius primipili centurio, qui hunc eundem ordinem in exercitu Pompeii antea duxerat, Caes. B. C. 1, 13. —Hence, 3. A captaincy, a command: ordinem alicui adimere, Tab. Heracl. ap. Mazoch. p. 423, n. 47; cf.
on the contrary: alicui assignare, Liv. 42, 34: DARE, Inscr. Orell. 3456: centuriones ad superiores ordines transducere, Caes. B. G. 6, 40; cf. id. ib. 5, 4, 4.—(b). Ordines, chieftains, captains:
tribunis militum primisque ordinibus convocatis, the captains of the first companies, Caes. B. G. 6, 7 fin.; Liv. 30, 4, 1.—C. In a polit. respect, an order, i. e. a rank, class, degree of citizens:
et meus med ordo inrideat, Plaut. Aul. 2, 2, 55.—In the time of Cicero there were three principal classes, ordo senatorius, equester, and plebeius: Fidiculanius cujus erat ordinis? senatoril, Cic. Clu. 37, 104; id. Fl. 18, 43: proximus est huic dignitati equester ordo, Cic. Dom. 28, 74; Suet. Aug. 41: inferiores loco, auctoritate, ordine, Cic. Verr. 2, 1, 48, § 127: ordo amplissimus, i. e. the Senate: quem absentem in amplissimum ordinem cooptarunt, id. Cael. 2, 5; also termed SPLENDIDISSIMVS ORDO, Inscr. Orell. 1180; 1181; and simply ordo, the order, for the Senate: ordo Mutinensis, Tac. H. 2, 52; Inscr. Grut. 425, 1: trecentos ex dediticiis electos utriusque ordinis, i. e. of the two upper classes, Suet. Aug. 15.—2. In gen., a class, rank, station, condition:
mearum me rerum aequom'st novisse ordinem, Plaut. Trin. 2, 4, 50: publicanorum, Cic. Fam. 13, 9, 2: aratorum, pecuariorum, mercatorum, Cic. Verr. 2, 2, 6, § 17: homo ornatissimus loco, ordine, nomine, id. ib. 2, 1, 48, § 127: libertini, Suet. Gram. 18.—So in the inscrr.: SACERDOTVM, HARVSPICVM, etc., Grut. 320, 12; 304, 7; 302, 2 et saep.; so, grammatici alios auctores in ordinem redigerunt, alios omnino exemerant numero, recognized among, placed in the rank of, Quint. 1, 4, 3.—(b). Esp. (eccl. Lat.), an order in the church, an ecclesiastical rank or office:
ordines sacerdotum et Levitarum, Vulg. 2 Esdr. 13, 30: secundum ordinem Melchisedek, id. Psa. 109, 5.Charlton Lewis's shorter dictionary for students: the same scholarship in plain, modern definitions.
ōrdō inis, m
1 OL-, a row, line, series, order, rank: arborum derecti in quincuncem ordines: ordines caespitum, courses, Cs.: tot premit ordinibus caput, layers (of ornaments), Iu.: terno con<*> surgunt ordine remi, in three rows of oar-banks, V.: sedisti in quattuordecim ordinibus, i. e. seats of Equites: comitum longissimus ordo, Iu.—A line, rank, array: aciem ordinesque constituere: nullo ordine iter facere, Cs.: nullo ordine commutato, S.: signa atque ordines observare, keep the ranks, S.: multiplicatis in arto ordinibus, L.: nosse ordines, understand tactics, Ta.—Band, troop, company, century: viri qui ordines duxerunt, who have commanded companies: ordinem in exercitu ducere, Cs.—A captaincy, command: mihi decumum ordinem hastatum adsignavit (i. e. centurionem me decimi ordinis hastatorum fecit), L.: tribunis militum primisque ordinibus convocatis, the captains of the first companies, Cs.—An order, rank, class, degree: equester, Cs.: senatorius: in amplissimum ordinem cooptare, into the senate: magna frequentia eius ordinis, S.—A class, rank, station, condition: superioris ordinis nonnulli, Cs.: publicanorum: homo ornatissimus loco, ordine, nomine.—Fig., right order, regular succession: fatum appello ordinem seriemque causarum: mox referam me ad ordinem, return to order: eundem tenere, preserve: immutare, change: perturbare, disturb: decemviri querentes, se in ordinem cogi, i. e. were degraded to the ranks, L.: nec quo prius ordine currunt, in order, as before, O.: ordinem Rectum evagans licentia, H.—In adverb. uses, turn, order, succession, regularity: Hegioni rem enarrato omnem ordine, in detail, T.: tabulae in ordinem confectae: ordine cuncta exposuit, L.: ut quisque . . . ita sententiam dixit ex ordine: Septem totos ex ordine menses, in succession, V.: an recte, ordine, e re p. factum, properly: extra ordinem ad patriam defendendam vocatus, irregularly: spem, quam extra ordinem de te ipso habemus, in an extraordinary degree.
Origins
Uncertain. Perhaps from Proto-Indo-European *h₂or-d-, itself from *h₂er-, with a *d-extension that is otherwise unattested for this root, and an ablauting nasal suffix (see -ō). An alternative zero-grade stem *ord-n- may be attested in the derived word ōrnō. The lengthening of the initial *o- to ō- is a secondary development. Within Latin, related to artus (“joint, limb”).
Borrowings
- Englishordo
- Frenchordo
- GermanOrden
- GermanOrder
- Germanordern
- GermanOrdnung
- GermanOrdo
- Italianordo
- Frenchordrefrom Old French ordre
- Englishorderfrom Old French ordre
Italo-Dalmatian
- Italianordine
- Romanianordinfrom Italian ordine
- Romanianordinefrom Italian ordine
- Corsicanordine
- Corsicanordini
- Dalmatianjorden
- Neapolitanordine
- Neapolitanurdine
- Sicilianùrdini
- Sicilianòrdini
Gallo-Romance
- Catalanordre
- Frenchorne
- Occitanòrde
Elsewhere
- Italianordignofrom Vulgar Latin *ōrdinium
- Italianordegnofrom Vulgar Latin *ōrdinium
Insular Romance
- Campidaneseòrdini
- Campidaneseòldini
- Logudoreseòrdine
- Logudoreseòldine
Balkano-Romance
- Aromanianurdin
Rhaeto-Romance
- Friulianordin
- Romanshurden
- Romanshuorden
Gallo-Italic
- Piedmonteseordo