σωρός

Probably derived from Proto-Indo-European *tewh₂- (“to swell”). Starting from Proto-Indo-European *twoh₂-ro-, Solmsen seeks connection with σῶς (sôs, “safe, healthy, intact”), also pleading against connection with σορός (sorós, “cup, recipient”). σῶμα (sôma, “body”) has also been compared.^[1] See also Old Armenian թուշ (tʻuš, “cheek”), from Proto-Indo-European *tewHr- (“to swell”), which seems connected to *tewh₂- and which the Greek term may alternatively derive from.

σωρός • (sōrós) m (genitive σωροῦ); second declension

1. heap, pile, mound (especially of corn)

   Synonyms: θημών (thēmṓn), θωμός (thōmós), κόρθυς (kórthus)

2. (in general) heap, quantity

• Greek: σωρός (sorós)
• → New Latin: sōrus (see there for further descendants)

• “σωρός”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “σωρός”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• σωρός in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language‎, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
  • accumulation idem, page 7.
  • heap idem, page 391.
  • litter idem, page 495.
  • mass idem, page 516.
  • pile idem, page 612.

From Ancient Greek σωρός (sōrós, “heap, mound”).

• IPA^(key): /soˈɾos/
• Hyphenation: σω‧ρός (masculine)
• Homophone: σορός (sorós) (feminine)

σωρός • (sorós) m (plural σωροί)

1. heap, pile

• στοίβα f (stoíva, “stack, pile”)

• ένα σωρό (éna soró, “loads of, lots of, a whole bunch of”)