ordinate

== English == === Etymology === Partly inherited from Middle English ordinat(e) (adjective and participle), partly directly borrowed from Latin ōrdinātus, perfect passive participle of ōrdinō, see -ate (etymology 1, 2 and 3). Doublet of ordain. Sense 5 of the verb is from a back-formation from ordination. === Pronunciation === noun, adjective IPA(key): /ˈɔː(ɹ)dɪnət/ verb IPA(key): /ˈɔː(ɹ)dɪneɪt/ === Noun === ordinate (plural ordinates) [from 1676] (geometry) The second of the two terms by which a point is referred to, in a system of fixed rectilinear coordinate (Cartesian coordinate) axes. Coordinate term: abscissa Hypernym: coordinate (geometry) The vertical line representing an axis of a Cartesian coordinate system, on which the ordinate (sense above) is shown. Hypernym: axis ==== Related terms ==== ==== Translations ==== === Verb === ordinate (third-person singular simple present ordinates, present participle ordinating, simple past and past participle ordinated) (transitive) To align a series of objects. (transitive, uncommon) To ordain a priest, or consecrate a bishop. [from 1508] Synonym: (much more common) ordain (transitive, now rare) To order or regulate; to control, govern, or direct. [from 1595] (transitive, obsolete) To institute, establish; to ordain; to predestine. [1555–1850] (transitive, statistics, ecology) To subject to the mathematical operation of ordination. [from 1962] (obsolete) past participle of ordinate [c. 1425-1649] ==== Derived terms ==== ==== Related terms ==== ==== Translations ==== === Adjective === ordinate (comparative more ordinate, superlative most ordinate) (rare after the 17th c., of someone) Observant of order, keeping within set limits; moderate, temperate [from c. 1395] Synonyms: tidy, orderly, regular (obsolete, of things) Conforming to order or rule, ordered, regulated, regular, orderly. [c. 1398-1668] (entomology, rare) Arranged regularly in a row or rows. [from 1826] (geometry, obsolete) Of a figure: having all its sides and angles equal. [1590-1702] (mathematics, obsolete, only in Euclid translations) Relating to an ordered series of ratios. [1570-1862] ==== Derived terms ==== ==== Translations ==== ==== See also ==== inordinate === Anagrams === andorite, arointed, deration, nadorite, rationed, read into == Italian == === Noun === ordinate f plural of ordinata === Adjective === ordinate f pl feminine plural of ordinato === Verb === ordinate inflection of ordinare: second-person plural present indicative/subjunctive second-person plural imperative feminine plural past participle === Anagrams === dentario, indorate, iterando, nodriate, ridonate, trenodia == Latin == === Participle === ōrdināte vocative masculine singular of ōrdinātus === References === “ordinate”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press “ordinate”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.