ordinal - Wiktionary, the free dictionary
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Borrowed from Latin ōrdinālis, adjective formed from noun ōrdō (“order”), + adjective suffix -ālis.
- (UK) IPA(key): /ˈɔː.dɪ.nəl/
- (US, Canada) IPA(key): /ˈɔɹ.dɪ.nəl/
- (General Australian) IPA(key): /ˈoː.dɪ.nəl/
- Rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)dɪnəl, -ɔːɹdnəl
ordinal (not comparable)
- (mathematics, of a number) Indicating position in a sequence.
"Three" is a cardinal number, while "third" is the corresponding ordinal number.
- (taxonomy) Pertaining to a taxon at the rank of order.
- (nautical) Intercardinal.
(With prefixes):
indicating position in a numerical sequence
- Armenian: դասական (hy) (dasakan)
- Bulgarian: реден (bg) (reden)
- Czech: řadový (cs) m, pořadový m
- Finnish: ordinaalinen
- French: ordinal (fr), ordinaux (fr) m pl
- Georgian: რიგობითი (rigobiti), რიგობრივი (rigobrivi), რიგითი (rigiti)
- Hungarian: sorszám (hu)
- Indonesian: ordinal (id)
- Latin: ordinalis
- Portuguese: ordinal (pt)
- Russian: поря́дковый (ru) m (porjádkovyj)
- Serbo-Croatian: redni (sh)
- Spanish: ordinal (es)
- Tagalog: panunod
- Welsh: trefnol
taxonomy: of or relating to orders
ordinal (plural ordinals)
- An ordinal number such as first, second and third.
2005, F. M. Wheelock, Wheelock’s Latin, 6th revised edition, page 97:
The most common numerals in Latin, as in English, are the "cardinals" […] and the "ordinals" […]
- A book used in the ordination of Anglican ministers, or in certain Roman Catholic services
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- “ordinal”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
Borrowed from Latin ordinālis.
ordinal (feminine ordinale, masculine plural ordinaux, feminine plural ordinales)
- → Romanian: ordinal
- “ordinal”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Borrowed from Dutch ordinaal (“ordinal”), from French ordinal, from Latin ōrdinālis, adjective formed from noun ōrdō (“order”), + adjective suffix -ālis.
- (Standard Indonesian) IPA(key): /orˈdinal/ [orˈdi.nal]
- Rhymes: -inal
- Syllabification: or‧di‧nal
ordinal
- “ordinal” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016.
Borrowed from Latin ōrdinālis.
ordinal m or f (plural ordinais)
- ordinal (indicating position in a numerical sequence)
Borrowed from French ordinal. By surface analysis, ordin + -al.
ordinal m or n (feminine singular ordinală, masculine plural ordinali, feminine and neuter plural ordinale)
Borrowed from Latin ordinālis.
ordinal m or f (masculine and feminine plural ordinales)
- “ordinal”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10