From Middle English or; partially contracted from other, auther, from Old English āþor, āwþer, āhwæþer ("some, any, either"; > either); and partially from Middle English oththe, from Old English oþþe, from Proto-Germanic *efþau (“or”).
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From Etymology 1 (sense 2 above)
or (plural ors)
Borrowed from Old French or (“yellow”), from Latin aurum (“gold”). Doublet of aurum.
or (countable and uncountable, plural ors)
or (not comparable)
Late Old English ār, from Old Norse ár. Compare ere.
or
or
From Latin ōrō. Compare Daco-Romanian ura, urez.
or (past participle uratã)
1103; variant of hor, from Proto-Basque *hor. Mostly replaced by zakur.
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From a variant of Old Occitan aur, from Latin aurum, from Proto-Italic *auzom, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂é-h₂us-o- (“glow”), from *h₂ews- (“to dawn, become light, become red”).
or m (plural ors)
From Middle French or, from Old French or, from Latin aurum, from Proto-Italic *auzom, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂é-h₂us-o- (“glow”), from *h₂ews- (“to dawn, become light, become red”).
or m (plural ors)
From Vulgar Latin hā horā, alteration of hāc horā.
or
or
Borrowing from French or, Italian ora and Spanish ahora.
or
Or expresses not only a sequence of two propositions, but induces a new argument, a further premise, explanation, motive. When the premise (motive) follows the conclusion, nam is used instead.
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or
or
or
From Old French or.
or m (uncountable)
or f or m (definite singular ora or oren, indefinite plural orer, definite plural orene)
From Old Norse ǫlr, órir. Akin to English alder.
or f (definite singular ora, indefinite plural orer, definite plural orene)
or m (definite singular oren, indefinite plural orar, definite plural orane)
or
From Proto-Germanic *ōzô, *ōsaz, from Proto-Indo-European *h₃éh₁os (“mouth”).
ōr n
or m (oblique plural ors, nominative singular ors, nominative plural or)
See ore.
or
(ele/ei) or (modal auxiliary, third-person plural form of vrea, used with infinitives to form presumptive tenses)
or m
A variant of ere, obsolete in modern English.
or
Not archaic, but rare amongst young people.
Possibly from Old Irish amar (“song, singing”). See òran.
or m (genitive singular ora, plural ora or orthachan or orrachan or orthannan)
or n
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From Proto-Indo-European *dóru, with unexplained loss of initial */d/. Compare Tocharian B or.
or n
From Proto-Indo-European *dóru, with unexplained loss of initial */d/. Compare Tocharian A or.
or n