different between ornament vs reglet

English

Etymology

From Middle English ornament, from Old French ornement, from Latin ornamentum (“equipment, apparatus, furniture, trappings, adornment, embellishment”), from orn?re, present active infinitive of I equip, adorn. The verb is derived from the noun.

Pronunciation

• (noun)
  • (UK) IPA^(key): /???(?)n?m?nt/
  • (US) IPA^(key): /???n?m?nt/, enPR: ôr?n?-m?nt
• (verb)
  • (UK) IPA^(key): /???(?)n?m?nt/, /???(?)n??m?nt/
  • (US) IPA^(key): /???n?m?nt/, /???n??m?nt/, enPR: ôr?n?-m?nt, ôr?n?-m?nt'

Noun

ornament (countable and uncountable, plural ornaments)

2. An element of decoration; that which embellishes or adorns.
3. A Christmas tree decoration.
4. (music) A musical flourish that is unnecessary to the overall melodic or harmonic line, but serves to decorate that line.
5. (Christianity, in the plural) The articles used in church services.
6. (biology) A characteristic that has a decorative function (typically in order to attract a mate)

Derived terms

• ornamental

Related terms

• ornate
• ornamentation
• adorn
• suborn

Translations

Verb

ornament (third-person singular simple present ornaments, present participle ornamenting, simple past and past participle ornamented)

2. To decorate.

4. To add to.

Conjugation

Synonyms

• (decorate): adorn, bedeck, decorate, embellish, trim

Translations

Further reading

• ornament in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• ornament in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.

Catalan

Etymology

From Latin ornamentum.

Pronunciation

• (Balearic) IPA^(key): /o?.n??ment/
• (Central) IPA^(key): /ur.n??men/
• (Valencian) IPA^(key): /o?.na?ment/

Noun

ornament m (plural ornaments)

1. ornament

Derived terms

• ornamental

Further reading

• “ornament” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “ornament” in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana.
• “ornament” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “ornament” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From Latin ornamentum

Noun

ornament n (definite singular ornamentet, indefinite plural ornament or ornamenter, definite plural ornamenta or ornamentene)

1. an ornament

Derived terms

• ornamentikk

References

• “ornament” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
• “ornament” in Det Norske Akademis ordbok (NAOB).

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From Latin ornamentum

Noun

ornament n (definite singular ornamentet, indefinite plural ornament, definite plural ornamenta)

1. an ornament

Derived terms

• ornamentikk

References

• “ornament” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Polish

Etymology

From Latin ?rn?mentum.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?r?na.m?nt/

Noun

ornament m inan

1. (architecture, art, typography) ornament, adornment
2. (music) ornament

Declension

Further reading

• ornament in Wielki s?ownik j?zyka polskiego, Instytut J?zyka Polskiego PAN
• ornament in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Romanian

Etymology

From French ornament, from Latin ornamentum.

Noun

ornament n (plural ornamente)

1. ornament

Declension

English

Etymology

From French réglet.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /????l?t/

Noun

reglet (plural reglets)

1. (printing) A strip of wood or metal of the height of a quadrat, used for regulating the space between pages in a chase, and also for spacing out title pages and other open matter. [from 17th c.]
2. (architecture) A flat, narrow moulding, used chiefly to separate the parts or members of compartments or panels from one another, or doubled, turned, and interlaced so as to form knots, frets, or other ornaments. [from 17th c.]
   • 1996, David Foster Wallace, Infinite Jest, Abacus 2013, p. 62:

     the cone of light pans over […] the two rag throw-rugs' ovals on the hardwood floor, black lines of baseboards' reglets […]

Anagrams

• Gretel

German

Pronunciation

Verb

reglet

1. second-person plural subjunctive I of regeln

Romanian

Etymology

From French réglet.

Noun

reglet n (plural reglete)

1. reglet

Declension