Ordered
verbPast tense of order: requested goods or a service, or issued a command.
How to spell ordered
7 letters · 2 syllables
How to pronounce ordered
Say the part in capitals loudest.
What does ordered mean?
- verbPast tense of order: requested goods or a service, or issued a command.
- adjectiveNeatly arranged, methodical, or following a clear sequence.
Ordered in a sentence
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verb
She ordered a replacement battery from the online store.
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adjective
Her desk was calm and ordered, with every file in its place.
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verb
The manager ordered everyone to leave the building during the drill.
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adjective
The project moved through an ordered series of stages.
Where does ordered come from?
Language of origin: Latin
This word traces back to the Latin noun ordo, meaning a row, a rank, or an arrangement, the same root that gives us 'order', 'ordinary', and 'coordinate'. From ordo Latin formed ordinare, 'to arrange or set in a row', which passed into Old French as ordrer and ordener before reaching English in the 1200s. The noun and verb 'order' settled in English meaning both a sequence or arrangement and a command, and 'ordered' is simply its regular past tense and past participle, carrying the everyday -ed ending. Because the base word ends in -er, the spelling stacks two e-bearing chunks, -er plus -ed, which is where writers sometimes hesitate over how many letters belong at the end. As an adjective, 'ordered' kept the older flavour of ordo itself, describing something neatly arranged rather than chaotic.
How the word is built
- ord- (from Latin ordo: row, rank, arrangement)
- -er (verb stem 'order')
- -ed (past tense/participle suffix)
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