Pronounced: TUB-thuhm-puhr, noun
Notes: I thought I knew the origin of this word, but I was incorrect
Yesterday’s word
The word ordonnance is “the systematic arrangement of parts in art, literature, architecture, etc”
First usage
Our word came into English in the mid-1600s
Background / Comments
Our word came from French, being changed from the Old French word ordenance (order), which came from the Latin word ordinantia, which came from ordinare (to put in order), which came from ordo (order). There are three similar words (they call come from the same French source): ordnance, ordinance, and ordonnance – the first is military supplies; the second in an order, decree, law, etc; the last is our word.
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