ort

From Middle English orte, from Old English *oreta (“that which is left after eating”, literally “out-eat”), equivalent to or- +‎ eat. Cognate with Middle Low German orte (“refuse of food”), Middle Dutch ooraete, ooreete, Low German ort (“ort”), Middle High German urez, German Uräß and also German Ort (“quarter (of a thaler, etc)”). As the term for a coin, probably borrowed from the central European languages which used it: German Ort (“quarter (of a thaler)”), Polish ort (“coin”), etc.

• (Received Pronunciation) enPR: ôt, IPA^(key): /ɔːt/
• (General American) enPR: ôrt, IPA^(key): /oɹt/
• Homophones: aught, ought (in non-rhotic accents)
• Rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)t
• (without the horse–hoarse merger)
  • (rhotic) IPA^(key): /ɔːɹt/
  • (non-rhotic) IPA^(key): /ɔːt/

ort (plural orts)

1. (usually in the plural) A fragment; a scrap of leftover food; any remainder; a piece of refuse.
   • 1861, George Eliot, chapter III, in Silas Marner, page 40:

     […] the rich ate and drank freely, […] their feasting caused a multiplication of orts, which were the heirlooms of the poor.

   • 1922, James Joyce, Ulysses:

     Come, Kinch, you have eaten all we left. Ay, I will serve you your orts and offals.

   • 1997, Thomas Pynchon, Mason & Dixon:

     Peace, Grandam,– reclaim thy Ort. The Learnèd One has yet to sink quite that low.

2. (historical) A small coin, formerly used in central Europe.
   • 1872, Peter Lund Simmonds, The Commercial Dictionary of Trade Products, Manufacturing and Technical Terms ..., page 268:

     ORT (French), the gross weight; garbage or refuse; a Norwegian coin of 24 skillings, also called a mark, and equal to 9 1/2 d.; an Hungarian coin, containing 12 kreutzers; in Poland, 5 orts make a rix-dollar; also a Swedish money equal to 2 farthings, sometimes called a runstick.

   • 1915, The Numismatist: An Illustrated Monthly Magazine for Those Interested in Coins, Medals, and Paper Money, page 245:

     The coins of Sigismund III. range in value from […] the solidus, denarius, half gros, gros, 1 1/2 gros, 3 crucifer, 3 gros, 6 gros, quarter crown or thaler, (ort); half crown, crown, double crown, ducat, […] These coins are the solidus, 3 gros, 6 gros, ort (quarter thaler), thaler (crown); […]

• (fragment): bit, chip; See also Thesaurus:piece
• (leftover food): gubbins, leftover, scrap
• (any remainder): remnant, residue; See also Thesaurus:remainder
• (a piece of refuse): garbage, rubbish; See also Thesaurus:trash

ort (third-person singular simple present orts, present participle orting, simple past and past participle orted)

1. (transitive, dialectal) To turn away from with disgust; refuse.

• OTR, ROT, RTO, TOR, TRO, Tor, rot, tor

• IPA^(key): /ɔrtʰ/

From Proto-Mongolic *urtu, compare Mongolian урт (urt).

ort

1. long

From Manchu ᠣᡴᡨᠣ (okto, “medicine, drug, poison, gunpowder”) or otherwise from Proto-Tungusic *okta (“medicine”).

Borrowed before Daur rhotacism.

ort

1. gunpowder

From Latin hortus.

ort m (plural orts)

1. vegetable garden

• ortae

From Old Irish fort.

• IPA^(key): /ɔɾˠt̪ˠ/

ort (emphatic ortsa)

1. second-person singular of ar: on you sg

From Old Irish fort.

ort

1. second-person singular informal of er

   on you

• orts (emphatic)

From Proto-West Germanic *oʀd, from Proto-Germanic *uzdaz. Cognate with Old English ord, Old Norse oddr.

ort m

1. sharp point

• Middle High German: ort
  • Bavarian: Oat
  • German: Ort
  • Luxembourgish: Uert
  • Yiddish: אָרט (ort)

ort

1. inflection of ortr:
   1. strong feminine nominative singular
   2. strong neuter nominative/accusative singular/plural

Borrowed from German Ort.[1][2]

• IPA^(key): /ɔrt/

• Audio

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• Rhymes: -ɔrt
• Syllabification: ort

ort m inan

1. (historical) ort (type of small silver coin, minted in the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth in the 16th–17th centuries)

• ort in Polish dictionaries at PWN
• ort in PWN's encyclopedia

Borrowed from German Ort.

ort m (plural orți)

1. a quarter thaler coin

• ort in Academia Română, Micul dicționar academic, ediția a II-a, Bucharest: Univers Enciclopedic, 2010. →ISBN

From Old Irish fort. Cognates include Irish ort and Manx ort.

• IPA^(key): /ɔrˠs̪t̪/
• (Perthshire) IPA^(key): /ɔrˠʃtʲ/ (as if spelled oirt)

ort

1. second-person singular of air: on you

From Middle Low German ort, from Old Saxon ord, from Proto-West Germanic *oʀd, from Proto-Germanic *uzdaz (“sharp point, place”).

Cognate with Middle English ord, North Frisian od (“tip, place, beginning”), Dutch oord (“place, region”), German Ort (“location, place, position”), Danish od (“a point”), Swedish udd (“a point, prick”), Icelandic oddur (“tip, point of a weapon, leader”).

• IPA^(key): /ʊʈː/

• Audio

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ort c

1. (inhabited) place, location; a group of houses (of any size: hamlet, village, town, city...)
2. (mining) adit (horizontal tunnel in a mine)

• (place): bostadsort, centralort, födelseort, småort, tätort, på ort och ställe

Clipping of förort (“suburb”).

ort c

1. (colloquial, often definite) Chiefly a suburb; sometimes a neighbourhood or local area.
   • 2021 June 10, Haris Agic, “Orten är inget problem. Orten är en lösning!”, in Folkbildningsrådet‎, archived from the original on 20 July 2022:

     Så vad är sanningen om förorten? Sanningen är att orten varken saknar drömmar eller kompetens. Det är allas vårt ansvar att se till att möjliggöra dessa drömmar och frigöra all denna kompetens. Orten är inget problem – orten är en lösning!

     So what is the truth about the suburb? The truth is that the ort lacks neither dreams nor competence. It is the responsibility of all of us to make these dreams possible and release all this competence. The ort is not a problem – the ort is a solution!

   • 2022 July 19, Beatrice Emmerik, 0:10 from the start, in Här testar Raho att cykla för första gången [Here, Raho is testing cycling for the first time]‎, spoken by Aisha Mohammed, SVT Nyheter:

     Så vi har valt att skapa en cykelkurs för mammor för vi vill hjälpa mammorna i våra orter och vårt samhälle att lära sig cykla.

     So we have chosen to create a cycling course for mothers because we want to help the mothers in our neighbourhoods and our community to learn to ride a bike.

2. (by extension) Anything (e.g. fashion, style or language) with sociocultural associations to certain suburbs.

• orten

• ort in Svensk ordbok (SO)
• ort in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
• ort in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)

• Tor, rot, tro

ort m

1. friend