disorder
/dɪˈsɔːdə/dih-SAWR-dur
/dɪˈsɔɹdɚ/dih-SAWR-dur
Meaningout of order
Common meaning: a lack of order
Other meanings: an illness of body or mind
- disapart, away; not
- orda row, rank, ordered seriesLewis & Short, Latin Dictionary (1879), p. 1277 · scan
- eragent ending: one who
‘apart, away’ + ‘a row, rank, ordered series’ → disorder
Journey through time
- Latinōrdō, -inis‘a row, rank, ordered series’
- Frenchordene
- Englishdisorder‘a lack of order’ · today
dis- also in: disarmdiscerndiscorddisdaindisgust
ord also in: reorderpreorderdisorderlysubordinate
Sources & notes
Meaning: “Meaning” is the sense that emerges from the word’s roots; “Common meaning” is today’s everyday sense. Both written by us.
Pronunciation
- UK IPA: converted from the US form by rule (unchecked). Respelling: generated.
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- US IPA: CMUdict (BSD-2), converted to IPA by rule. Respelling: generated.
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Origin: Built on Latin ōrdō ‘a row, rank, ordered series’.
Did you know: our wording, based on Lewis & Short, Latin Dictionary (1879), entry ōrdō, p. 1277 · dictionary scan
Roots
- ōrdō, -inis Latin “a row, rank, ordered series”
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