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Ordinary шотл. ординарій (один із суддів сесійного
суду) в Шотландії
амер. суддя по спадкових справах в певних
штатах США
англ. 1) член суду
2) затриманий «звичайного класу»

7.2 Homonyms in terminology.
Homonyms are terms that have the same form but represent
entirely different concepts. Two terms are homonyms when their
etymology is different although their form is the same –both
homonym terms represent different concepts. Traditional
understanding of homonymy as opposed to polysemy (or
complementary ambiguity) is that homonyms have no common
etymological roots or basis whereas polysemes have developed
from one common form and acquired different or modified
meanings through their devolution. For example:
Key – 1) metal piece that works a lock," from O.E. cæg
"key," 2) low island, 1690s, from Sp. cayo "shoal, reef," from
Taino cayo "small island;" spelling influenced by M.E. key
"wharf" (c.1300), from O.Fr. kai "sand bank"
There is point of view according to which all the terms that
exist in different professional fields and have related meaning are
considered as homonyms, not polysemantic ones. In terminology
each special subject field is considered a closed domain.
Terminology conceives of each subject code as a system that is to
be differentiated from the others that with it make up the global
linguistic system (historical language). Consequently, any term
from a special field that is extracted by analogy and applied to
another field will be a homonym.
We will follow the point that if the terms have different
etymology and not related meanings then we deal with
homonymy.

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