ordinatus Latin · revision 34374

+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=derivation|attested=59 BC–AD 17, Livy|origins=la ōrdō}}

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''ōrdinātus''' (feminine ōrdināta, neuter ōrdinātum, comparative ōrdinātior, superlative ōrdinātissimus); first/second-declension adjective^(OLD 2012)^(Georges 1913)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ Used as an adjective, it is the perfect participle [[der|la|ōrdinō|t=to arrange, put in order]].^(OLD 2012)^(Conte 2010) De Vaan explains that verb as a later denominative of [[m|la|ōrdō|t=row, order]], made when the link between the noun and its older denominative [[m|la|ōrnō|t=to adorn]] had become opaque; for the noun he gives [[itc-pro|*ord-n-|t=row, order]] and, with a query, [[ine-pro|*h2or-d-]].^(de Vaan 2008)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ The earliest example in the OLD is in Livy (59 BC–AD 17), who contrasts a disorderly flight with an orderly march.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010) Georges cites it also from Cicero and Nepos.^(Georges 1913)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ It means well ordered or regulated: Valerius Maximus has a city well ordered by its customs and laws, and Seneca the upper part of the world, more ordered than the lower, and a mind most ordered, sound and calm.^(OLD 2012)^(Conte 2010) Of movement it means orderly or regular: Apuleius uses the superlative of the courses of the planets, and Celsus of a naturally regular pulse.^(OLD 2012) The land surveyors use it in geometry, with the dative, for lines that are parallel.^(OLD 2012)^(Conte 2010)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * 59 BC–AD 17 – Livy uses it of an orderly march.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 4 BC–AD 65 – Seneca uses it of an ordered mind.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 14–37 AD – Celsus uses it of a regular pulse.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * c. 125–175 AD – Apuleius uses it of the courses of the planets.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Adjective===

+ # Well-ordered, [[m|en|regulated]], [[m|en|organized]].^(OLD 2012)^(Georges 1913)

+ # ''(of movement)'' [[m|en|orderly|alt=Orderly]], controlled;^(OLD 2012) ''(of the pulse)'' regular.^(OLD 2012)

+ # ''(geometry, with dative)'' In alignment with, [[m|en|parallel]] to.^(OLD 2012)^(Conte 2010)

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+ ==Usage notes==

+ Medieval Latin also has nouns spelled ''ordinatus'': Niermeyer records one of the second declension meaning a proxy and one of the fourth declension meaning furniture,^(Niermeyer 1976) and British sources have a fourth-declension noun for the arrangement or disposition of things, as of ships around 1193.^(DMLBS)

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}