Ort
- (masculine, strong) place, location, point, position
- (masculine, strong) place of abode, settled dwelling, village, town
- (masculine, metonymically, strong) the collective of inhabitants of such a settlement
- (masculine, strong) locus, point (plural Örter)
- (Switzerland, dated, masculine, strong) canton (plural Orte; also neuter)
Frequency
Pronounced as (IPA)
/ɔʁt/
Etymology
In summary
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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