nord

See also: Nord, nörd, nørd, and nòrd

Catalan

Etymology

Borrowed from French nord, from Old English norþ, from Proto-Germanic *nurþrą.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic) [ˈnɔrt]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [ˈnɔɾt]

• Audio:

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• Rhymes: -ɔɾt

Noun

nord m (uncountable)

1. north

   Synonym: septentrió

   Antonym: sud

Derived terms

• nord-africà
• nord-americà
• nord-coreà
• nord-est
• nord-oest

 

Adjective

nord (invariable)

1. northern

Related terms

• nòrdic

See also

(compass points) punt cardinal;

nord-oest (n-occ)	nord (sept)	nord-est (n-or)
oest (occ)		est (or)
sud-oest (s-occ)	sud (mer)	sud-est (s-or)

Further reading

• “nord” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “nord”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2024
• “nord” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “nord” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

Corsican

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈnɔrd/
• Hyphenation: nord

Noun

nord m (uncountable)

1. Alternative form of nordu

References

• “nordu, nord” in INFCOR: Banca di dati di a lingua corsa

Danish

Etymology

From Old Norse norðr, from Proto-Germanic *nurþrą.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /noːr/, [noɐ̯ˀ]
• Rhymes: -oːɐ̯

Noun

nord c (singular definite norden, not used in plural form)

1. The north

Declension

Declension of nord

common gender	Singular
	indefinite	definite
nominative	nord	norden
genitive	nords	nordens

Derived terms

• nordøst
• nordvest

Adverb

nord

1. Toward the north, northwards

References

• “nord” in Den Danske Ordbog

French

Etymology

Inherited from Middle French nord, nort, from Old French nort(h), borrowed from Old English norþ (“north”), which see. The English (rather than Dutch or Norse) origin of the French compass points is evidenced by the vowel in est.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /nɔʁ/
  • (southern France) IPA^(key): [n̪ɔʁ̥]
  • (Quebec) IPA^(key): [naɔ̯ʁ], [nɑɔ̯ʁ]

• Audio (France):

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Noun

nord m (plural nord)

1. north

   Synonym: septentrion

Coordinate terms

• (compass points) point cardinal;

nord-ouest	nord septentrion	nord-est
ouest couchant ponant occident		est levant orient
sud-ouest	sud midi méridien	sud-est

Derived terms

• perdre le nord

 

Related terms

• nord-africain, Nord-Africain
• nordique

Descendants

• → Asturian: norte
• → Catalan: nord
• → Galician: norte, norde
• → Italian: nord
• → Portuguese: norte
• → Romanian: nord
• → Romansch: nord
• → Spanish: norte

Further reading

• “nord”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Anagrams

• rond

Interlingua

Noun

nord (uncountable)

1. north

Adjective

nord (not comparable)

1. north

See also

• (compass points)

	nord
west occidente		est oriente levante
	sud

Italian

Etymology

Via Spanish and French, ultimately from Old English norþ, from Proto-Germanic *nurþrą.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈnɔrd/

• Audio:

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• Rhymes: -ɔrd
• Hyphenation: nòrd
• IPA: [ˈnɔrdə]

Noun

nord m (invariable)

1. north

   Synonyms: settentrione, mezzanotte

   Antonym: sud

Derived terms

• nord magnetico
• nordest, nord-est
• nordico
• nordista
• nord-nord-est
• nord-nord-ovest
• nordovest, nord-ovest

Adjective

nord (invariable)

1. northern

See also

• stella polare
• (compass points) punto cardinale;

From Latin
settentrione occidente ponente oriente levante meridione mezzogiorno
From Germanic
nordovest nord nordest ovest est sudovest sud sudest

Norman

Alternative forms

• nor (Sark)

Etymology

From Old French norht, north, nort (“north”), from Old English norþ (“north”), from Proto-Germanic *nurþrą (“north”), from Proto-Indo-European *ner- (“lower, bottom; to sink, shrivel”).

Noun

nord m (uncountable)

1. north

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From Danish nord, from Old Norse norðr, from Proto-Germanic *nurþrą.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /nuːɾ/

Adverb

nord

1. north (for / of)

Noun

nord (indeclinable) (uncountable)

1. north, a compass direction
2. a land area towards the north

   det høye nord - the far north

3. indefinite singular of Norden - the Nordic countries
4. (dialectal, obsolete) upriver (in the mountain valleys of eastern Norway, without considering the actual orientation of the valley)

Antonyms

• (antonym(s) of “of north”): sør, syd

Derived terms

• Nord-Europa
• Nord-Irland
• Nord-Korea
• Nord-Marianene
• Nord-Norge
• Nord-Trøndelag
• nordafrikansk
• nordamerikansk
• nordavind
• nordende
• nordfra
• nordirsk
• Nordishavet
• Nordkapp
• nordkoreansk
• nordkyst
• nordlending
• nordnorsk
• nordover
• nordpol
• nordside
• nordvest
• nordvestre
• nordøst, nordaust
• nordøstre

 

See also

nordvest	nord	nordøst
vest		øst
sørvest	sør	sørøst

References

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

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From Old Norse norðr, from Proto-Germanic *nurþrą. Akin to English north.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /nuːr/, [nu̞ːr], [nu̞ːɾ], [nu̞ːʁ]
• (thick L) IPA^(key): [nu̞ːɽ]

Adverb

nord

1. north (for / of)

Noun

nord (indeclinable) (uncountable)

1. north, a compass direction
2. a land area towards the north

   det høge nord - the far north

3. indefinite singular of Norden - the Nordic countries

Antonyms

• (antonym(s) of “of north”): sør

Derived terms

• Nord-Europa
• Nord-Irland
• Nord-Noreg
• Nord-Trøndelag
• nordafrikansk
• nordamerikansk
• nordaust
• nordavind
• nordende
• nordirsk
• Nordishavet
• nordkaper
• Nordkapp
• nordkoreansk
• nordkyst
• nordlending
• nordnorsk
• nordover
• nordpol
• nordre
• nordside
• nordspisskval
• nordvest
• nordvestre

 

References

• “nord” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Old High German

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *nurþrą, akin to Old English norþ, Old Norse norðr.

Noun

nord ?

1. north

Descendants

• Middle High German: nort
  • German: Nord
  • Luxembourgish: Nord

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from French nord or German Nord, both ultimately from Proto-Germanic *nurþrą (“north”), the French via Old English.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /nord/

Noun

nord n (uncountable)

1. north

   Synonym: (archaic or poetic) miazănoapte

Declension

declension of nord (singular only)

	singular
n gender	indefinite articulation	definite articulation
nominative/accusative	(un) nord	nordul
genitive/dative	(unui) nord	nordului
vocative	nordule

Coordinate terms

• (compass points) punct cardinal;

Native Romanian
miazănoapte apus răsărit miazăzi
Borrowed from French/German
nord-vest nord nord-est vest est sud-vest sud sud-est

Further reading

• nord in DEX online—Dicționare ale limbii române (Dictionaries of the Romanian language)
• Romanian vocabulary. In: Haspelmath, M. & Tadmor, U. (eds.) World Loanword Database. Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology.

Romansch

Etymology

Borrowed from French nord, from Old French norht, north, nort (“north”), from Old English norþ (“north”), from Proto-Germanic *nurþrą (“north”), from Proto-Indo-European *ner- (“lower, bottom; to sink, shrivel”).

Noun

nord m

1. north

Antonyms

• sid

Derived terms

• nordost
• nordvest

Related terms

• ost
• oriaint
• vest
• sidost
• sidvest

Swedish

Alternative forms

• norr

Etymology

From Old Norse norðr, from Proto-Germanic *nurþrą.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /nuːɖ/

• Audio:

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Noun

nord c

1. north, a compass direction
2. indefinite form singular of Norden = the Nordic countries

Adverb

nord (not comparable)

1. north

Derived terms

• Nordafrika
• Nordamerika
• Nordcypern
• Nordirland
• Nordkorea
• Nordmakedonien
• Nordmarianerna
• Nordsjön

Related terms

• nordost
• nordväst
• norr
• ost
• syd
• sydost
• sydväst
• söder
• väst
• väster
• öst
• öster

 

See also

• (compass points) vädersträck;

nordväst	norr nord	nordost nordöst
väster väst		öster öst ost
sydväst	söder syd	sydost sydöst