ordinal
Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
ordinal/ˈɔːdɪnl/
▶noun
- 1 short for ordinal number.
- 2 Christian Church, historical a service book, especially one with the forms of service used at ordinations.
- 1 relating to order in a series.
- 2 Biology relating to a taxonomic order.
– origin ME: the noun from med. L. ordinale; the adjective from late L. ordinalis ‘relating to order’, from L. ordo, ordin- (see order).
'ordinal' also found in these Oxford entries:
billion
- cardinal number
- eighteen
- eighth
- eighty
- eleventh
- fifteen
- fifth
- fifty
- first
- forty
- fourteen
- fourth
- grade
- hundred
- million
- -mo
- nineteen
- ninety
- ninth
- ordinal number
- quadrillion
- quintillion
- second
- seventh
- seventy
- sextillion
- sixteen
- sixth
- sixty
- tenth
- -th
- third
- thirteen
- thirty
- thousand
- tithe
- trillion
- twelfth
- twenty
- umpteen
- zillion
