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quorate
English
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /?kw???.?t/
Noun
quorate (plural quorates)
- A quorum
Adjective
quorate (not comparable)
- Having a quorum
- With only five people able to make it to the meeting, we were barely quorate.
Translations
Anagrams
- Equator, equator
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orange
English
Etymology
From Middle English orenge, orange, from Old French pome orenge (“fruit orange”), influenced by Old Occitan auranja and calqued from Old Italian melarancio, melarancia, compound of mela (“apple”) and (n)arancia (“orange”), from Arabic ????????? (n?ranj), from Persian ?????? (nârang), from Sanskrit ?????? (n?ra?ga, “orange tree”), from Dravidian (compare Tamil ????????????? (n?rtta?k?y), compound of ??????? (narantam, “fragrance”) and ???? (k?y, “fruit”); also Telugu ??????? (n?ra?gamu), Malayalam ?????? (n?ra??a), Kannada ?????? (n?ra?gi)).
For other similar cases of the incorrect division (or, elision/rebracketing) of the above Italian word, but in English, see Category:English rebracketings.
For the color sense, see Old English ?eolur?ad (literally “yellow-red”); compare English blue-green.
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) enPR: ?r??nj, -?nzh, IPA(key): /????n(d)?/
- (US, East Coast) enPR: är??nj, ?r??nj, IPA(key): /?????nd??/, /???-/
- (General American, Canada) enPR: ôr??nj, IPA(key): /?????nd??/
- (General American) IPA(key): /???(?)nd??/, /????nt??/
- Homophone: Orange
- Rhymes: -???nd?
- Hyphenation: or?ange, orange
Noun
orange (countable and uncountable, plural oranges)
- (countable) An evergreen tree of the genus Citrus such as Citrus sinensis.
- (countable) The fruit of the orange tree; a citrus fruit with a slightly sour flavour.
- The colour of a ripe fruit of an orange tree, midway between red and yellow.
- Synonym: (uncommon) yellowred
- Various drinks:
- (uncountable) Orange juice.
- (uncountable) An orange-coloured and orange-flavoured cordial.
- (uncountable) An orange-coloured and orange-flavoured soft drink.
Usage notes
- It is commonly stated that “orange” has no rhymes. While there are no commonly used English dictionary words that rhyme exactly with “orange” (“door-hinge” comes close in US pronunciation), the English surname Gorringe is a rhyme, at least in UK pronunciation. See the Wikipedia article about rhymes for the word “orange”
Derived terms
Descendants
- ? Esperanto: oran?o
- ? Japanese: ???? (orenji)
- ? Korean: ??? (orenji)
- ? Malay: oren
- ? Marshallese: oran
Translations
Adjective
orange (comparative oranger or more orange, superlative orangest or most orange)
- Having the colour of the fruit of an orange tree; yellowred; reddish-yellow.
Antonyms
- (having orange as its colour): nonorange
Translations
Verb
orange (third-person singular simple present oranges, present participle oranging, simple past and past participle oranged)
- (transitive) To color orange.
- (intransitive) To become orange.
See also
References
- orange on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Anagrams
- Gorean, Ragone, groane, onager
French
Etymology
Short form of late Old French pume orenge or pomme d'orenge, which was calqued after Old Italian melarancia (mela + arancia). The o came into the word under influence of the place name Orange, from where these fruits came to the north.See orange (English).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?.????/
- Rhymes: -???
- Homophone: oranges
Noun
orange f (plural oranges)
- orange (fruit)
Descendants
- ? Breton: orañjez
- ? Belarusian: ????????? (aránžavy)
- ? Bulgarian: ???????? (oránžev)
- ? German: Orange
- ? Latvian: oranžs
- ? Low German: Orange
- ? Luxembourgish: Orange
- ? Norwegian: oransje
- ? Romanian: oranj
- ? Russian: ?????????? (oránževyj)
- ? Swedish: orange
Noun
orange m (plural oranges)
- orange (color)
Derived terms
- oranger
- Orangina
Adjective
orange (invariable)
- orange
Usage notes
- While theoretically the adjective orange is invariable, being (originally) a colour name derived from a noun, the nonstandard plural oranges is in use.
Derived terms
See also
Further reading
- “orange” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
Anagrams
- onagre, organe, rongea
German
Etymology
From the noun Orange (“orange fruit”), from French orange.
Pronunciation
- (predicative only) IPA(key): /o??ã??/, /o??a??/, /o??????/, /o?????/
- (non-predicative feminine and plural forms) IPA(key): /o??ã???/, /o??a???/, /o???????/, /o??????/
Adjective
orange (comparative oranger or orangener, superlative am orangesten or am orangensten)
- orange
Usage notes
- The adjective has two sets of forms. In the formal standard language, endings are added directly to the stem (orang-). In less formal style and in the vernacular, another set of forms is used in free variation, in which an -n- is infixed before the endings.
- It is also officially correct to leave the adjective entirely undeclined. This usage is rare, however, and seems dated.
Declension
- Standard forms
- Colloquial forms
Further reading
- “orange” in Duden online
Luxembourgish
Etymology
Borrowed from French orange.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /o??????/
Adjective
orange (masculine orangen, neuter oranget, comparative méi orange, superlative am orangesten)
- orange
Declension
This adjective needs an inflection-table template.
See also
Middle English
Noun
orange
- Alternative form of orenge
Norman
Alternative forms
- oraunge (Cotentin)
Etymology
From Old French.
Pronunciation
Adjective
orange m or f
- (Jersey, Guernsey) orange
Swedish
Etymology
Borrowed from French orange. See English orange.
Pronunciation
- (indefinite common singular) IPA(key): /??ran?/, (southern) /??ra??/
- (indefinite neuter singular) IPA(key): /??ran?t/, (southern) /??ra??t/
- (definite masculine singular) IPA(key): /??ran??/, (southern) /??ra???/
- (definite or plural) IPA(key): /??ran?a/, (southern) /??ra??a/
Adjective
orange
- orange
Declension
- Less common:
Noun
orange ?
- orange (color)
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