Ornament - Wiktionary

See also: Ornament

English

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English Wikipedia has an article on:ornament (music)Wikipedia

Etymology

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From Middle English ornament, from Old French ornement, from Latin ornamentum (“equipment, apparatus, furniture, trappings, adornment, embellishment”), from ornāre (“to equip, adorn”). The verb is derived from the noun.

Pronunciation

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• (noun)
  • (UK) IPA(key): /ˈɔː(ɹ)nəmənt/
  • (US) IPA(key): /ˈɔɹnəmənt/,
  • (Southern US) IPA(key): /ˈɔɹdəmənt/

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• (verb)
  • (UK) IPA(key): /ˈɔː(ɹ)nəmənt/, /ˈɔː(ɹ)nəˌmɛnt/
  • (US) IPA(key): /ˈɔɹnəmənt/, /ˈɔɹnəˌmɛnt/, enPR: ôrʹnə-mənt, ôrʹnə-mĕnt'

Noun

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ornament (countable and uncountable, plural ornaments)

1. An element of decoration; that which embellishes or adorns. Synonyms: see Thesaurus:decoration
   • 1864, Alfred Tennyson, “Aylmer’s Field”, in Enoch Arden, &c., London: Edward Moxon & Co., […], →OCLC, page 51:Dust are our frames; and, gilded dust, our pride / Looks only for a moment whole and sound; / Like that long-buried body of the king / Found lying with his urns and ornaments, / Which at a touch of light, an air of heaven, / Slipt into ashes and was found no more.
   • 1919, P. G. Wodehouse, My Man Jeeves:I'm a bit short on brain myself; the old bean would appear to have been constructed more for ornament than for use.
   • 2012 March, Brian Hayes, “Pixels or Perish”, in American Scientist‎[1], volume 100, number 2, archived from the original on 19 February 2013, page 106:Drawings and pictures are more than mere ornaments in scientific discourse. Blackboard sketches, geological maps, diagrams of molecular structure, astronomical photographs, MRI images, the many varieties of statistical charts and graphs: These pictorial devices are indispensable tools for presenting evidence, for explaining a theory, for telling a story.
2. A Christmas tree decoration.
3. (music) A musical flourish that is unnecessary to the overall melodic or harmonic line, but serves to decorate that line.
4. (Christianity, in the plural) The articles used in church services.
5. (biology) A characteristic that has a decorative function (typically in order to attract a mate)

Derived terms

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• block ornament
• hood ornament
• neither use nor ornament
• ornamental
• ornamental hermit
• ornamentary
• ornamentist
• ornamentless
• tooth ornament

Related terms

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• ornate
• ornamentation
• adorn
• suborn

Translations

[edit] element of decoration

Albanian: zbukurim (sq) Arabic: حِلْيَة f (ḥilya) Armenian: զարդ (hy) (zard) Assamese: গহনা (gohona) Azerbaijani: naxış (az), bəzək (az) Bashkir: биҙәк (biźək) Bulgarian: орнамент (bg) m (ornament) Catalan: ornament (ca) m Chinese: Mandarin: 裝飾品 / 装饰品 (zh) (zhuāngshìpǐn), 裝飾 / 装饰 (zh) (zhuāngshì) Czech: ornament (cs), ozdoba (cs) Esperanto: ornamaĵo (eo) Finnish: koriste (fi), koriste-esine, ornamentti (fi) French: ornement (fr) m Galician: ornamento (gl) m German: Verzierung (de) f Greek: διακόσμηση (el) f (diakósmisi) Hebrew: נוֹי (he) m (noy) Hindi: आभूषण (hi) (ābhūṣaṇ), अलंकार (hi) (alaṅkār), जेवर (hi) (jevar) Hungarian: dísz (hu), díszítés (hu) Ingrian: koristus Irish: ornáid f, (please verify) oirnimint f, (please verify) breáthán m, (please verify) feathal m, (please verify) gréas m, (please verify) imdhéanamh m, (please verify) séad m, (please verify) uscar m Italian: ornamento (it) m Japanese: 装飾 (ja) (そうしょく, sōshoku) Korean: 장신구 (jangsin'gu) Latin: ornāmentum n Macedonian: у́крас m (úkras) Malayalam: ആഭരണം (ml) (ābharaṇaṁ), അലങ്കാരം (ml) (alaṅkāraṁ) Occitan: ornament (oc) m Odia: ଅଳଙ୍କାର (aḷaṅkāra) Ottoman Turkish: بزك (bezek), سوس (süs), زینت (zinet) Paicî: näwêê Paraguayan Guarani: (please verify) jeguaka Pashto: ګاڼه f (gānna), کالي (ps) m pl (kāli) Persian: آذین (fa) (âzin) Polish: ornament (pl) m Portuguese: ornamento (pt) m, ornato (pt) m, enfeite (pt) m Romanian: ornament (ro) n Russian: орна́мент (ru) m (ornáment), украше́ние (ru) n (ukrašénije) Sanskrit: भूषण (sa) n (bhūṣaṇa) Spanish: ornamento (es) m Telugu: ఆభరణము (te) (ābharaṇamu), భూషణము (te) (bhūṣaṇamu) Tocharian B: tsaiññe Ukrainian: прикра́са f (prykrása), оздо́ба (uk) f (ozdóba), орна́мент (uk) m (ornáment) Yiddish: ציר m (tsir)

Christmas tree decoration

Bulgarian: украса (bg) f (ukrasa) Finnish: joulukuusen koriste Hungarian: karácsonyfadísz (hu) Occitan: ornament (oc) m Polish: ozdoba (pl) f Russian: украше́ние (ru) n (ukrašénije), ёлочная игру́шка f (jóločnaja igrúška)

musical flourish

Chinese: Mandarin: 裝飾音 / 装饰音 (zh) (zhuāngshìyīn) Finnish: hele (fi), ornamentiikka French: ornement musical m German: musikalische Verzierung sg Irish: ornáid f, maisiúchán (ga) m Italian: ornamenti (it) pl Japanese: 装飾音 (sōshokuon) Korean: 장식음(裝飾音) (jangsigeum) Latin: ornamentum musicalis Macedonian: му́зички орнаме́нт m (múzički ornamént) Occitan: ornament (oc) m Polish: ornament (pl) m Portuguese: ornamento (pt) m Romanian: ornament muzical n Russian: музыка́льный орна́мент m (muzykálʹnyj ornáment), музыка́льное украше́ние n (muzykálʹnoje ukrašénije) Spanish: ornamento musical

Verb

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ornament (third-person singular simple present ornaments, present participle ornamenting, simple past and past participle ornamented)

1. To decorate. We will ornament the windows with trim to make the room seem brighter.
2. To add to. The editor ornamented his plain writing, making it fancier but less clear.
   • 2021 July 12, Nicholas Barber, “The French Dispatch: Four stars for Wes Anderson's latest”, in BBC‎[2]:Not a scene goes by that hasn't been ornamented with a split screen, a freeze frame, a caption, a voice-over, a switch between monochrome and colour, or a change of the aspect radio[sic – meaning ratio].

Synonyms

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• (decorate): adorn, bedeck, decorate, embellish, trim

Derived terms

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• ornamentor
• overornament
• reornament

Translations

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Armenian: զարդարել (hy) (zardarel) Bulgarian: украсявам (bg) (ukrasjavam) Dutch: versieren (nl), decoreren (nl) Finnish: somistaa (fi), koristella (fi) Hindi: सजाना (hi) (sajānā) Irish: gréasaigh Macedonian: украсува (ukrasuva) Maori: whakarei, nakonako, whakanako, niko, whakanikoniko, whakaniko, whakanakonako Odia: ଅଳଙ୍କରଣ (aḷaṅkaraṇa) Polish: ozdabiać (pl), dekorować (pl) Portuguese: ornamentar (pt), ornar (pt), decorar (pt) Romanian: ornamenta (ro), înfrumuseța (ro) Russian: украшать (ru) (ukrašatʹ) Scottish Gaelic: sgeadaich

to add to

Finnish: koristella (fi) Romanian: adăuga (ro) Russian: приукрасить (ru) (priukrasitʹ) Scottish Gaelic: sgeadaich

Further reading

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• “ornament”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
• William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “ornament”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.

Catalan

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Etymology

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Borrowed from Latin ōrnāmentum.

Pronunciation

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• IPA(key): (Central) [ur.nəˈmen]
• IPA(key): (Balearic) [or.nəˈment]
• IPA(key): (Valencia) [oɾ.naˈment]

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Noun

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ornament m (plural ornaments)

1. ornament

Derived terms

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• ornamental

Further reading

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• “ornament”, in Diccionari de la llengua catalana [Dictionary of the Catalan Language] (in Catalan), second edition, Institute of Catalan Studies [Catalan: Institut d'Estudis Catalans], April 2007
• “ornament”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2025
• “ornament” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “ornament” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

Norwegian Bokmål

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Norwegian Wikipedia has an article on:ornamentWikipedia no

Etymology

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From Latin ornamentum.

Noun

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ornament n (definite singular ornamentet, indefinite plural ornament or ornamenter, definite plural ornamenta or ornamentene)

1. an ornament

Derived terms

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• ornamentikk

References

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• “ornament” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
• “ornament” in Det Norske Akademis ordbok (NAOB).

Norwegian Nynorsk

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Etymology

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From Latin ornamentum.

Noun

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ornament n (definite singular ornamentet, indefinite plural ornament, definite plural ornamenta)

1. an ornament

Derived terms

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• ornamentikk

References

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• “ornament” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Polish

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Etymology

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Learned borrowing from Latin ōrnāmentum.

Pronunciation

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• IPA(key): /ɔrˈna.mɛnt/

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• Rhymes: -amɛnt
• Syllabification: or‧na‧ment

Noun

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ornament m inan

1. (architecture, art, typography) ornament, adornment
2. (music) ornament

Declension

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singular	plural
nominative	ornament	ornamenty
genitive	ornamentu	ornamentów
dative	ornamentowi	ornamentom
accusative	ornament	ornamenty
instrumental	ornamentem	ornamentami
locative	ornamencie	ornamentach
vocative	ornamencie	ornamenty

Descendants

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• → Ukrainian: орна́мент (ornáment)

Further reading

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• ornament in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• ornament in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Romanian

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Etymology

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Borrowed from French ornament, from Latin ornamentum. By surface analysis, orna +‎ -ment.

Noun

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ornament n (plural ornamente)

1. ornament

Declension

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singular		plural
indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative-accusative	ornament	ornamentul	ornamente	ornamentele
genitive-dative	ornament	ornamentului	ornamente	ornamentelor
vocative	ornamentule		ornamentelor

Swedish

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Swedish Wikipedia has an article on:ornamentWikipedia sv

Noun

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ornament n

1. an ornament

Declension

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nominative	genitive
singular	indefinite	ornament	ornaments
	definite	ornamentet	ornamentets
plural	indefinite	ornament	ornaments
	definite	ornamenten	ornamentens

Related terms

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• ornamental
• ornamentera
• ornamentik

References

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• ornament in Svensk ordbok (SO)
• ornament in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
• ornament in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)