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ordinazione

order

noun or-dee-nah-TSYOH-neh Rare

Origin: From Latin ordinatio, from ordinare (to arrange, to ordain).

Also means

ordination

Usage Note

Ordinazione covers two distinct senses: a restaurant order (fare un'ordinazione — 'to place an order') and the religious rite of ordination into the priesthood. Context disambiguates clearly. In everyday restaurant Italian, ordine is also commonly used interchangeably for a food order.

Examples

"Il cameriere ha preso la nostra ordinazione."

Natural Translation

The waiter took our order.

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