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+ {{infobox|confidence=probable|formation=derivation|attested=81–43 BC, Cicero|origins=la ōrdō}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * Classical: [oːrˈnaː.teː]^(Wiktionary)

+ * Ecclesiastical: [orˈnaː.te]^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''ōrnātē''' (comparative ōrnātius, superlative ōrnātissimē)^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[af|la|ōrnātus|-ē|t1=equipped, adorned]].^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)^(Georges 1913) The adjective is the participle of [[m|la|ōrnō|t=to equip, adorn]], which de Vaan explains as the original denominal verb of [[m|la|ōrdō|t=row, order]], from a form [[m|la|*ōrd-n-ō|alt=*ōrd-n-āre]].^(de Vaan 2008)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ Köbler dates it from Cicero,^(Köbler 2010) who has a banquet prepared magnificently and lavishly.^(OLD 2012)^(Conte 2010)^(Georges 1913)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ It means with lavish appointments, richly, and of style with rhetorical embellishment, ornately.^(OLD 2012) The ''Rhetorica ad Herennium'' speaks of treating arguments ornately and completely, and Cicero has speaking aptly, clearly and ornately and defending a case most ornately and fully.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Georges 1913) Georges calls it a rhetorical term in this sense.^(Georges 1913)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * 81–43 BC – Cicero of a lavish banquet and of ornate speech.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Adverb===

+ # Richly, lavishly, with taste.^(OLD 2012)^(Georges 1913)

+ # ''(rhetoric)'' In an [[m|en|ornate]] style, elegantly.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Wiktionary)^(Georges 1913)

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[ornatus]]

+ * [[orno|alt=ōrnō]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}