ordonner French · revision 38684

+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=borrowing|attested=1119, Philippe de Thaon|origins=la ordō}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * /ɔʁ.dɔ.ne/^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''ordonner'''^(Wiktionary)

+ Old French [[m|fro|ordener]] (1119) and [[m|fro|ordiner]] (about 1200);^(TLFi)^(Bloch & Wartburg 1989) ''ordonner'' is found from about 1200 and became the usual form in the 14th century.^(TLFi)^(Bloch & Wartburg 1989)^(Grand Robert 2005) Anglo-Norman also had ''ordeiner'' and ''ordeigner''.^(AND)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[inh|fro|ordener]], [[bor|la|ordinō|t=to set in order, arrange]], derived from [[m|la|ordō|t=row, order]], the source of [[ordre]].^(TLFi)^(DHLF 1992)^(Bloch & Wartburg 1989)^(Wiktionary)^(FEW|7, 395a) The form closer to Latin, [[m|fro|ordiner]], was also used in the Middle Ages.^(Bloch & Wartburg 1989)^(TLFi) The spelling with ⟨-onner⟩ arose very early and probably follows [[donner]].^(TLFi)^(Grand Robert 2005)^(GLLF 1989)^(Wiktionary)

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+ In Imperial Latin the verb had taken the senses “to govern, dispose of”, in Church Latin “to consecrate (a priest)” and in medical Latin “to prescribe”.^(DHLF 1992) Cognate with [[pro|ordenar]], [[es|ordenar]] and [[it|ordinare]].^(Littré 1873)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ It is first found in 1119 in Philippe de Thaon's ''Comput'', in ''lampes … en ordre ordenees'' “lamps arranged in a row”, with the sense “to set in a certain order”.^(TLFi)^(DHLF 1992)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ From the earliest texts the verb meant both “to arrange” and, from the early 12th century, “to establish someone in a state”, in particular to ordain a priest (about 1140, Gaimar).^(TLFi)^(DHLF 1992) The sense “to command” appears about 1165 in Benoît de Sainte-Maure, with ''ordonner que'' (1524–1527) and ''ordonner de'' (1580) following.^(TLFi)^(DHLF 1992) According to Bloch and Wartburg, “to give an order” began in legal language at the end of the 14th century and has been the main sense since the 16th, probably after Latin legal usage.^(Bloch & Wartburg 1989)

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+ In the 16th century the verb took the senses “to rule by a court order” (1538) and “to prescribe (a remedy)” (1558–1560); “to order a payment” (about 1590) did not survive the classical period.^(TLFi)^(DHLF 1992) The sense of arranging was refined to classifying methodically (1765), especially in mathematics.^(DHLF 1992) The past participle ''ordonné'' qualifies an orderly person, as in ''une tête bien ordonnée'' (1798), and its feminine ''ordonnée'' became the mathematical “ordinate” (1639).^(DHLF 1992) The proverb ''charité bien ordonnée commence par soi-même'' keeps the old sense “well regulated”.^(Wiktionary)^(Littré 1873)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * 1119 – ''Ordener'' “to set in order”, in Philippe de Thaon.^(TLFi)

+ * c. 1140 – “To ordain (a priest)”, in Gaimar.^(TLFi)

+ * c. 1165 – “To command”, in Benoît de Sainte-Maure.^(TLFi)

+ * c. 1200 – The forms ''ordiner'' and ''ordonner''.^(TLFi)

+ * 1260 – The derivative ''ordenance'', later ''ordonnance''.^(DHLF 1992)

+ * 1538 – The legal sense “to rule by a court order”.^(TLFi)

+ * 1558 – “To prescribe a remedy”.^(TLFi)

+ * 1639 – ''Ordonnée'' in mathematics.^(DHLF 1992)

+ * 1765 – ''Équation ordonnée''.^(TLFi)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Verb===

+ # To [[m|en|arrange]], put in a certain order: ''ordonner ses idées''; pronominal ''s'ordonner'', to fall into order.^(Petit Robert 2007)^(TLFi)

+ # ''(mathematics)'' To order the elements of a set; to write a [[m|en|polynomial]] in increasing or decreasing powers of one term.^(Petit Robert 2007)^(Littré 1873)

+ # ''(religion)'' To [[m|en|ordain]], confer holy orders on: ''ordonner un prêtre''.^(Petit Robert 2007)^(Wiktionary)

+ # To command, order: ''ordonner à quelqu'un de partir'', ''ordonner que'' with the subjunctive.^(Petit Robert 2007)^(Larousse)

+ # To [[m|en|prescribe]] a treatment or medicine.^(Wiktionary)^(TLFi)

+ # ''(law)'' To decree by a court order.^(TLFi)^(Larousse)

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+ ==Word family==

+ * [[ordonnance]]

+ * [[désordonné]]

+ * [[ordonné]]

+ * [[ordonnée]]

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[ordre]]

+ * [[ordination]]

+ * [[la|ordinō]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}