ordinaire French · revision 17636

+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=borrowing|attested=1260, Livre de Jostice et de Plet|origins=la ōrdō}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * IPA: /ɔʁ.di.nɛʁ/^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''ordinaire''' (plural ordinaires)^(Wiktionary)

+ First ''ordenaire'' (1260); ''ordinaire'' from 1335.^(TLFi)^(DHLF 1992)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[bor|la|ōrdinārius|t=arranged in order; regular, usual]], derived from [[m|la|ōrdō|t=order, rank]], the source of [[ordre]].^(DHLF 1992)^(TLFi)^(Bloch & Wartburg 1989)^(FEW|7, 400a) In Church Latin the word meant a cleric regularly attached to a church and, as a noun, the person holding church jurisdiction over a place, the weekly monk in charge of the refectory or a royal judge.^(DHLF 1992) Wiktionary treats the Old French word as inherited after an early borrowing.^(Wiktionary)

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+ Cognate with [[pro|ordinari]], [[it|ordinario]] and [[es|ordinario]].^(Littré 1873)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ The ''Livre de Jostice et de Plet'' (1260) uses ''ordenaire'' as a noun for the diocesan church authority.^(TLFi)^(DHLF 1992)^(Littré 1873)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ The noun also named the book containing the ordinary of the Mass (1328).^(TLFi)^(DHLF 1992) In the 14th century the word became an adjective meaning “in accordance with the normal order” (1348) and described a person who regularly holds an office, as ''juge ordinaire'' (1355), already found earlier in Old Occitan.^(DHLF 1992)^(GLLF 1989)^(Bloch & Wartburg 1989) From the 15th century it took wider senses: what is usually done (''c'est l'ordinaire de'', Corneille, 1643), what is normal (Amyot, 1559).^(TLFi)^(Bloch & Wartburg 1989)

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+ As a noun it also meant one's usual food (1489), the daily ration of oats for horses (1690) and a soldiers' mess (1766), and a regular post leaving and arriving on fixed days (1636).^(TLFi) By extension the adjective came to mean “commonplace, mediocre”, and in Quebec “rude, shabby”.^(Wiktionary)^(Petit Robert 2007)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * 1260 – ''Ordenaire'', the diocesan authority.^(TLFi)

+ * 1328 – The book of the ordinary of the Mass.^(TLFi)

+ * 1348 – The adjective “normal, usual”.^(DHLF 1992)^(Grand Robert 2005)

+ * 1355 – ''Juge ordinaire''.^(GLLF 1989)^(DHLF 1992)

+ * 1489 – The usual food.^(TLFi)

+ * 1636 – A regular post.^(TLFi)

+ * 1643 – Corneille: ''c'est l'ordinaire de''.^(TLFi)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Adjective===

+ # Normal, usual, [[m|en|ordinary]]: ''le cours ordinaire des choses'', ''sa gaieté ordinaire''.^(Petit Robert 2007)^(Wiktionary)

+ # Average, common, with nothing special: ''des gens ordinaires'', ''(familiar)'' ''c'est pas ordinaire !'', that's remarkable.^(Petit Robert 2007)

+ # [[m|en|mediocre|alt=Mediocre]], commonplace.^(Wiktionary)^(Petit Robert 2007)

+ # Of a person, regularly holding an office: ''juge ordinaire''.^(DHLF 1992)^(Petit Robert 2007)

+ # ''(Quebec)'' Rude, discourteous.^(Wiktionary)

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+ ===Noun===

+ # ''L'ordinaire'': what is usual, the ordinary: ''sortir de l'ordinaire'', ''d'ordinaire'', usually.^(Wiktionary)^(Petit Robert 2007)

+ # Everyday food, ''(military)'' the soldiers' mess.^(TLFi)^(Petit Robert 2007)

+ # ''(Christianity)'' The bishop who has jurisdiction in a diocese; the unchanging parts of the Mass.^(TLFi)^(DHLF 1992)

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+ ==Word family==

+ * [[extraordinaire]]

+ * [[ordinairement]]

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[ordre]]

+ * [[la|ōrdinārius]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}