ordre

ordre (countable and uncountable, plural ordres)

1. Obsolete form of order.

ordre (third-person singular simple present ordres, present participle ordring, simple past and past participle ordred)

1. Obsolete form of order.

• Doerr, Order, Roder, derro, order

• orde (Western, southern, and Balearic)
• olda (Alghero)

Inherited from Old Catalan ordre~orde~orden, from Latin ōrdinem. The plural form órdens, with conservation of the Latin /n/, is still used in Valencia and Ibiza. Compare Occitan ordre, French ordre.

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic) [ˈɔr.dɾə]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [ˈoɾ.ðɾe] (Can we verify⁽⁺⁾ this pronunciation?) (particularly: GDLC has [ɔ], but for "desordre" and "orde" it has [o]; all other diccionaries have [o].)

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ordre m (plural ordres)

1. order, organization, discipline

   Antonym: desordre

2. order (arrangement in a series, e.g. alphabetically)
3. order (social category)
4. (biology, architecture, mathematics) order
5. (military) order, formation (e.g. of battle)

ordre f (plural ordres)

1. order, command
2. (computing) command

• ordre d'arrest

• orde
• ordenar

• “ordre”, in Diccionari de la llengua catalana [Dictionary of the Catalan Language] (in Catalan), second edition, Institute of Catalan Studies [Catalan: Institut d'Estudis Catalans], April 2007
• “ordre”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2025
• “ordre” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “ordre” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

From French ordre, from Latin ōrdō (“order”). Doublet of orden.

• IPA^(key): /ɔrˀdrə/, [ˈɒˀd̥ʁɐ]

ordre c (singular definite ordren, plural indefinite ordrer)

1. order (command,)
2. order (request for some product or service)

• “ordre” in Den Danske Ordbog

Inherited from Old French ordre, ordene, borrowed from Latin ōrdinem (accusative of ōrdo). Doublet of the inherited orne, now a regional term with a specialized agricultural sense.

• IPA^(key): /ɔʁdʁ/

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ordre m (plural ordres)

1. order (way in which things are arranged)

   ordre alphabétique ― alphabetical order

   ordre des mots ― word order

2. order (group)

   les ordres militaires ― military orders

3. (law) order (calm)
4. region (used in estimations)

   un chiffre de l'ordre de 2 millions ― a number in the region of 2 million/a number around 2 million/2 million or so

5. kind, sort
6. order (tidiness)
7. order (instruction)

   Il m'a donné l'ordre de tirer ― he gave me the order to shoot

   sur ordre du gouvernement ― under the government's orders

8. (finance) order
9. (taxonomy) order

   c'est de l'ordre des siréniens ― from the order of sirenians

10. (architecture) classical order
11. order (decoration)

    officier de l'Ordre du Canada ― officer of the Order of Canada

• → Danish: ordre
• → Norwegian Bokmål: ordre
• → Norwegian Nynorsk: ordre

• “ordre”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

• dorer, roder, rôder

ordre

1. inflection of ordern:
   1. first-person singular present
   2. first/third-person singular subjunctive I
   3. singular imperative

ordre

1. (rare) alternative form of ordure

From Latin ordo, via French ordre.

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ordre m (definite singular ordren, indefinite plural ordrer, definite plural ordrene)

1. an order (command, instruction)
2. an order (for goods)

• “ordre” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

From French ordre.

• IPA^(key): /ˈɔrdrə/

ordre m (definite singular ordren, indefinite plural ordrar, definite plural ordrane)

1. order, command
2. order (request for some product or service)

• “ordre” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

From Old Occitan [Term?], from Latin ordo, ordinem.

ordre m (plural ordres)

1. order (command; instruction)

• ordenar