ordinate

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.

noun, adjective

• IPA^(key): /ˈɔː(ɹ)dɪnət/

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verb

• IPA^(key): /ˈɔː(ɹ)dɪneɪt/

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ordinate (plural ordinates) [from 1676]

1. (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

   The point ${\displaystyle (3,2)}$ has 3 as its abscissa and 2 as its ordinate.

2. (geometry) The vertical line representing an axis of a Cartesian coordinate system, on which the ordinate (sense above) is shown.

   Hypernym: axis

ordinate (third-person singular simple present ordinates, present participle ordinating, simple past and past participle ordinated)

1. (transitive) To align a series of objects.
2. (transitive, uncommon) To ordain a priest, or consecrate a bishop. [from 1508]

   Synonym: (much more common) ordain

3. (transitive, now rare) To order or regulate; to control, govern, or direct. [from 1595]
4. (transitive, obsolete) To institute, establish; to ordain; to predestine. [1555–1850]
5. (transitive, statistics, ecology) To subject to the mathematical operation of ordination. [from 1962]
6. (obsolete) past participle of ordinate [c. 1425-1649]

ordinate (comparative more ordinate, superlative most ordinate)

1. (rare after the 17th c., of someone) Observant of order, keeping within set limits; moderate, temperate [from c. 1395]

   Synonyms: tidy, orderly, regular

2. (obsolete, of things) Conforming to order or rule, ordered, regulated, regular, orderly. [c. 1398-1668]

   ordinate power

3. (entomology, rare) Arranged regularly in a row or rows. [from 1826]
4. (geometry, obsolete) Of a figure: having all its sides and angles equal. [1590-1702]
5. (mathematics, obsolete, only in Euclid translations) Relating to an ordered series of ratios. [1570-1862]

   ordinate proportionality; ordinate proportion

• inordinate

• andorite, arointed, deration, nadorite, rationed, read into

ordinate f

1. plural of ordinata

ordinate f pl

1. feminine plural of ordinato

ordinate

1. inflection of ordinare:
   1. second-person plural present indicative/subjunctive
   2. second-person plural imperative
   3. feminine plural past participle

• dentario, indorate, iterando, nodriate, ridonate, trenodia

ōrdināte

1. vocative masculine singular of ōrdinātus

• “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.