Ort

Meaning

  1. (masculine,strong) place, location, point, position
  2. (masculine,strong) place of abode, settled dwelling, village, town
  3. (masculine,metonymically,strong) the collective of inhabitants of such a settlement
  4. (masculine,strong) locus, point (plural Örter)
  5. (Switzerland,dated,masculine,strong) canton (plural Orte; also neuter)

Frequency

A1
Pronounced as (IPA)
/ɔʁt/
Etymology

From Middle High German ort (“point (of a tool or weapon), corner, end point, boundary, border, site, place”), from Old High German ort (“point, tip, corner”) (8th century), from Proto-West Germanic *oʀd, from Proto-Germanic *uzdaz (“point”).

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