# ordre
## English
### Noun

ordre (countable and uncountable, plural ordres)
* Obsolete form of order.

### Verb

ordre (third-person singular simple present ordres, present participle ordring, simple past and past participle ordred)
* Obsolete form of order.

### Anagrams

* Doerr, Order, Roder, derro, order

## Catalan
### Alternative forms

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

### Etymology

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.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: (Central, Balearic) [ˈɔr.dɾə]
* IPA: (Valencia) [ˈoɾ.ðɾe]
* Audio (Barcelona):(file)

### Noun

ordre m (plural ordres)
* order, organization, discipline
    Antonym: desordre
* order (arrangement in a series, e.g. alphabetically)
* order (social category)
* (biology, architecture, mathematics) order
* (military) order, formation (e.g. of battle)

#### Derived terms

* desordre
* Nou Ordre Mundial
* ordre alfabètic
* ordre de magnitud

### Noun

ordre f (plural ordres)
* order, command
* (computing) command

#### Derived terms

* ordre d'arrest

#### Related terms

* orde
* ordenar

### References

* “ordre” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
* “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.

## Danish
### Etymology

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

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ɔrˀdrə/, [ˈɒˀd̥ʁɐ]

### Noun

ordre c (singular definite ordren, plural indefinite ordrer)
* order (command,)
* order (request for some product or service)

#### Derived terms

* beordre
* ordrebeholdning
* købsordre
* marchordre
* ordrebeholdning
* postordre

### Further reading

* “ordre” in Den Danske Ordbog

## French
### Etymology

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.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ɔʁdʁ/
* Audio:(file)

### Noun

ordre m (plural ordres)
* order (way in which things are arranged)
    ordre alphabétique ― alphabetical order
    ordre des mots ― word order
* order (group)
    les ordres militaires ― military orders
* (law) order (calm)
* 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
* kind, sort
* order (tidiness)
* 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
* (finance) order
* (taxonomy) order
    c’est de l’ordre des siréniens ― from the order of sirenians
* (architecture) classical order

#### Related terms

* billet à ordre
* dans le même ordre d’idées
* de premier ordre
* de second ordre
* désordre
* en ordre
* en ordre dispersé
* forces de l’ordre
* jusqu’à nouvel ordre
* mise en ordre
* mot d’ordre
* ordinaire
* ordonner
* ordre de bataille
* ordre de grandeur
* ordre des mots
* ordre du jour
* ordre du Temple
* ordre établi
* ordre permanent
* ordre public
* rappeler à l’ordre
* rentrer dans l’ordre
* service d’ordre

#### Descendants

* → Danish: ordre
* → Norwegian Bokmål: ordre
* → Norwegian Nynorsk: ordre

### Further reading

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

### Anagrams

* dorer, roder, rôder

## German
### Verb

ordre
* inflection of ordern:
** first-person singular present
** first/third-person singular subjunctive I
** singular imperative

## Middle English
### Noun

ordre
* (rare) Alternative form of ordure

## Norwegian Bokmål
### Etymology

From Latin ordo, via French ordre.

### Pronunciation

* Audio:(file)

### Noun

ordre m (definite singular ordren, indefinite plural ordrer, definite plural ordrene)
* an order (command, instruction)
* an order (for goods)

### References

* “ordre” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

## Norwegian Nynorsk
### Etymology

From French ordre.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈɔrdrə/

### Noun

ordre m (definite singular ordren, indefinite plural ordrar, definite plural ordrane)
* order, command
* order (request for some product or service)

### References

* “ordre” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

## Occitan
### Etymology

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

### Noun

ordre m (plural ordres)
* order (command; instruction)

#### Related terms

* ordenar