ordinaire

French ordinaire

ordinaire (countable and uncountable, plural ordinaires)

1. Wine for ordinary use.
2. A soldier's mess.
3. A person of common rank.

From Old French ordinaire, borrowed from Latin ōrdinārius, from Latin ōrdō (whence French ordre) + -ārius (whence -aire).

• IPA^(key): /ɔʁ.di.nɛʁ/

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ordinaire (plural ordinaires)

1. ordinary

ordinaire m (plural ordinaires)

1. (with the definite article) the ordinary, the usual

• d'ordinaire
• extraordinaire
• sortir de l'ordinaire
• ordinairement

• “ordinaire” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

• ordenaire
• ordenarie
• ordinarie

First known attestation in 1260 as ordenaire[1], borrowed from Latin ōrdinārius.

ordinaire m (oblique plural ordinaires, nominative singular ordinaires, nominative plural ordinaire) (chiefly Anglo-Norman)

1. a diocesan church official
2. (law) judge ordinary
3. (Antiquity) ordinarius, a Roman soldier
4. ordainer; one who may confer a title
5. (Christianity) ordinary (book, manual)

ordinaire m (oblique and nominative feminine singular ordinaire)

1. ordinary; usual
2. (law) ordinary (of a judge, etc.)

• English: ordinary
• French: ordinaire

• Godefroy, Frédéric, Dictionnaire de l'ancienne langue française et de tous ses dialectes du IX^e au XV^e siècle (1881) (ordinaire, supplement)
• ordenaire on the Anglo-Norman On-Line Hub