Translation
order (arrangement, tidiness)
Word origin
From Latin ordo, ordinem (a row, a rank, an arrangement), the source of order across the European languages.
- Origin
- Latin
- Root
- ordo
- English cognates
- order, ordinary
Examples
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She put the books in good order.
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There is perfect order in his room.
demandojn .
Read the questions in the right order.
English "order" does two unrelated jobs and Esperanto refuses to share: is arrangement, sequence and tidiness, while a command is an o, from . Mixing them up is the reliable slip, so file it early: a general gives ojn, a librarian keeps . The everyday phrase means "in order, fine, all sorted", and the opposite state of a teenager's bedroom is o.
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