preorder
Meaningto order beforehand
Common meaning: to order goods before they are released
- prebefore
- orda row, rank, ordered seriesLewis & Short, Latin Dictionary (1879), p. 1277 · scan
- eragent ending: one who
‘before’ + ‘a row, rank, ordered series’ → preorder
Journey through time
- Latinōrdō, -inis‘a row, rank, ordered series’
- Frenchordene
- Englishpreorder‘to order goods before they are released’ · today
pre- also in: prefixprecedeprecisepredictpreface
ord also in: reorderdisorderdisorderlysubordinate
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: not available. Respelling: generated.
- US IPA: not available. Respelling: generated.
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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