ordinal adj

1 of or relating to a taxonomic order; "family and ordinal names of animals and plants"

2 being or denoting a numerical order in a series; "ordinal numbers"; "held an ordinal rank of seventh" [ant: cardinal] n : the number designating place in an ordered sequence [syn: ordinal number, no.]

English

Etymology

ordinalis, adjective formed from noun ordo, order, + adjective suffix -alis

Adjective

1. Of a number, indicating position in a sequence.

Derived terms

• ordinal number
• ordinal numeral

Related terms

• ordinate
• cardinal

Translations

• Czech: řadový , pořadový
• Croatian: redni , redna , redno
• French: ordinal, ordinaux m pl
• Latin: ordinalis
• Spanish: ordinal /

Noun

1. An ordinal number such as first, second and third.

   The commonest numerals in Latin, as in English, are the "cardinals"...and the "ordinals"... — F. M. Wheelock, Wheelock’s Latin, 6th ed. revised (2005), p97

Translations

• Breton: niver petvediñ (pl niveroù petvediñ)
• Croatian: redni broj
• Dutch: rangtelwoord
• French: ordinal (pl ordinaux), nombre ordinal (pl nombres ordinaux)
• German: Ordinalzahl

French

Etymology

From ordinalis.

Adjective

ordinal

1. ordinal

Spanish

Adjective

1. ordinal. See English definition.

Ordinal may refer to:

• Ordinal number (linguistics), a word representing the rank of a number
• Ordinal indicator, the sign adjacent to a numeral denoting that it is an ordinal number
• Ordinal number in set theory, a number type with order structures
• Ordinal date, a simple form of expressing a date using only the year and the day number within that year
• In statistics, ordinal data is one level of measurement.

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