Ortとは 意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• (Received Pronunciation) enPR: ôt, IPA: /ɔːt/
• (General American) enPR: ôrt, IPA: /oɹt/
• 異形同音異義語: aught, ought (non-rhotic)
• 韻: -ɔː(ɹ)t
• (without the horse–hoarse merger)
  • (rhotic) IPA: /ɔːɹt/
  • (non-rhotic) IPA: /ɔːt/

名詞

ort (plural orts)

1. (usually in the plural) A fragment; a scrap of leftover food; any remainder; a piece of refuse.
   • 1861, George Eliot, chapter III, in Silas Marner, page 40:

     […] the rich ate and drank freely, and accepted gout and apoplexy as things that ran mysteriously in respectable families, and the poor thought that the rich were entirely in the right of it to lead a jolly life; besides, their feasting caused a multiplication of orts, which were the heirlooms of the poor.

   • 1922, James Joyce, Ulysses:

     Come, Kinch, you have eaten all we left. Ay, I will serve you your orts and offals.

   • 1997, Thomas Pynchon, Mason & Dixon:

     Peace, Grandam,– reclaim thy Ort. The Learnèd One has yet to sink quite that low.

2. (historical) A small coin, formerly used in central Europe.
   • 1872, Peter Lund Simmonds, The Commercial Dictionary of Trade Products, Manufacturing and Technical Terms ..., page 268:

     ORT (French), the gross weight; garbage or refuse; a Norwegian coin of 24 skillings, also called a mark, and equal to 9 1/2 d.; an Hungarian coin, containing 12 kreutzers; in Poland, 5 orts make a rix-dollar; also a Swedish money equal to 2 farthings, sometimes called a runstick.

   • 1915, The Numismatist: An Illustrated Monthly Magazine for Those Interested in Coins, Medals, and Paper Money, page 245:

     The coins of Sigismund III. range in value from […] the solidus, denarius, half gros, gros, 1 1/2 gros, 3 crucifer, 3 gros, 6 gros, quarter crown or thaler, (ort); half crown, crown, double crown, ducat, […] These coins are the solidus, 3 gros, 6 gros, ort (quarter thaler), thaler (crown); […]

同意語

• (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

動詞

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.

参考

• slart
• manavelins

アナグラム

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