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verb

ordeñar

/oɾdeˈɲaɾ/

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verb/oɾdeˈɲaɾ/

to milk (to express milk from a mammal); to milk (get the most advantage out of someone or something); to milk (extract semen)

Inherited from Vulgar Latin *ordiniāre, itself from Latin ōrdināre, or from *ordinium, from ōrdō, ōrdinis. Compare Portuguese ordenhar, Sardinian ordinzare; cf. also Italian ordigno. Doublet of ordenar.