The most common numerals in Latin, as in English, are the cardinals...and the ordinals... — F. M. Wheelock, Wheelock’s Latin, 6th ed. revised (2005), p97.
The book of forms for making, ordaining, and consecrating bishops, priests, and deacons
A type of variable for which there is a natural ordering to the values which it can take It does not necessarily have to be numeric For example, the response to a question on a survey is ordinal if it can take the values "disagree strongly", "disagree", "agree", and "agree strongly"
Measurement based on the rank order of concepts or variables; differences among ranks need not be equal
book containing instructions for conducting the prescribed rituals of the church
being or denoting a numerical order in a series; "ordinal numbers"; "held an ordinal rank of seventh" of or relating to a taxonomic order; "family and ordinal names of animals and plants
Numerals assigned for the purpose of rank For example: 1st, 2nd, 3rd place in a race Ordinal numbers imply an order but tell nothing of the distance between the entries Thus, they give no information about how much faster the first place finisher was than the second, just that she was faster