different between orc vs ort

English

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /??k/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /??k/
• Rhymes: -??(?)k

Etymology 1

From Middle French orque, Italian orca, and their source, Latin orca (“type of whale”).

Noun

orc (plural orcs)

1. (archaic) Any of several large, ferocious sea creatures, now especially the killer whale. [from 16th c.]

Translations

Etymology 2

Probably from Italian orco (“man-eating giant”); later revived by J. R. R. Tolkien, partly after Old English orc (“demon”); both from Latin Orcus (“the underworld; the god Pluto”). Doublet of ogre.

Noun

orc (plural orcs)

1. (fantasy, mythology) A mythical evil monstrous humanoid creature, occasionally porcine, usually quite aggressive and often green. [from 17th c.]
   • 1656, Samuel Holland, Don Zara del Fogo, I.1:

     Who at one stroke didst pare away three heads from off the shoulders of an Orke, begotten by an Incubus.

   • 1834, "The National Fairy Mythology of England" in Fraser's Magazine for Town and Country, Vol. 10, p. 53:

     The chief exploit of the hero, Beowulf the Great, is the destruction of the two monsters Grendel and his mother; both like most of the evil beings in the old times, dwellers in the fens and the waters; and both, moreover, as some Christian bard has taken care to inform us, of "Cain's kin," as were also the eotens, and the elves, and the orcs (eótenas, and ylfe, and orcneas).

   • 1954, JRR Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring:

     There was a flash like flame and the helm burst asunder. The orc fell with cloven head.

Hypernyms

• greenskin

Derived terms

Descendants

All are borrowed. Some listed may be semantic loans.

Translations

See also

• ogre
• goblin
• troll

Anagrams

• COR, CRO, CoR, Cor., OCR, ROC, cor, cor-, roc

Catalan

Noun

orc m (plural orcs)

1. An orc.

Old English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ork/, [or?k]

Etymology 1

Compare Old Saxon ork.

Noun

orc m (nominative plural orcas)

1. cup, tankard

Declension

Etymology 2

From Latin Orcus (“the underworld; the god Pluto”).

Noun

orc m

1. a demon
2. hell

Declension

Old Irish

Etymology

From Proto-Celtic *?orkos, from Proto-Indo-European *pór?os. Cognate with Latin porcus and English farrow.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ork/

Noun

orc m

1. piglet

   Synonym: banb

Declension

Mutation

Descendants

• Irish: arc
• Manx: ark

References

• Gregory Toner, Maire Ní Mhaonaigh, Sharon Arbuthnot, Dagmar Wodtko, Maire-Luise Theuerkauf, editors (2019) , “orc”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language

Portuguese

Etymology

Borrowed from English orc.

Noun

orc m (plural orcs)

1. (fantasy) orc (evil, monstrous humanoid creature)

English

Etymology

From Middle English ort, from Old English *or?t (“that which is left after eating”, literally “out-eat”), equivalent to or- +? eat. Cognate with Middle Low German orte (“refuse of food”), Middle Dutch ooraete, ooreete, Low German ort (“ort”), Middle High German urez, German Uräß.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) enPR: ôt, IPA^(key): /??t/
• (US) enPR: ôrt, IPA^(key): /???t/
• Homophones: aught, ought (in non-rhotic accents)
• Rhymes: -??(?)t

Noun

ort (plural orts)

1. (usually in the plural) A fragment; a scrap of leftover food; any remainder; a piece of refuse.

Synonyms

• (fragment): bit, chip; See also Thesaurus:piece
• (leftover food): gubbins, leftover, scrap
• (any remainder): remnant, residue; See also Thesaurus:remainder
• (a piece of refuse): garbage, rubbish; See also Thesaurus:trash

Translations

Verb

ort (third-person singular simple present orts, present participle orting, simple past and past participle orted)

1. (transitive, dialectal) To turn away from with disgust; refuse.

Anagrams

• OTR, ROT, RTO, TOR, TRO, Tor, rot, tor

Daur

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?rt?/

Etymology 1

From Proto-Mongolic *urtu, compare Mongolian ??? (urt).

Adjective

ort

1. long

Etymology 2

From Manchu ???? (okto, “medicine, drug, poison, gunpowder”) or otherwise from Proto-Tungusic *okta (“medicine”).

Borrowed before Daur rhotacism.

Noun

ort

1. gunpowder

Friulian

Etymology

From Latin hortus.

Noun

ort m (plural orts)

1. vegetable garden

Related terms

• ortae

Irish

Etymology

From Old Irish fort.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /???t??/

Pronoun

ort (emphatic ortsa)

1. second-person singular of ar: on you sg

Manx

Etymology

From Old Irish fort.

Pronoun

ort

1. second-person singular informal of er

   on you

Derived terms

• orts (emphatic)

Old High German

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *uzdaz, whence Old English ord, Old Norse oddr

Noun

ort m

1. sharp point

Descendants

• Middle High German: ort
  • German: Ort
  • Luxembourgish: Uert

Scottish Gaelic

Etymology

From Old Irish fort. Cognates include Irish ort and Manx ort.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?r?s?t/

Pronoun

ort

1. second-person singular of air: on you

Inflection

Swedish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /???/

Noun

ort c

1. (inhabited) place, location; a group of houses (of any size: hamlet, village, town, city...)
2. (mining) adit (horizontal tunnel in a mine)

Declension

Derived terms

• (place): bostadsort, centralort, födelseort, småort, tätort, på ort och ställe

Anagrams

• Tor, rot, tro