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Latin
Etymology
From sordēs (“dirt, filth”) + -eō.[1][2]
Pronunciation
Verb
sordeō (present infinitive sordēre, perfect active sorduī); second conjugation, no passive, no supine stem
- to be dirty, filthy or foul
- (figuratively) to be mean or base
- (figuratively) to be despised, slighted or held of no account
Conjugation
- The third principal part is shared with sordēscō.
Derived terms
References
- ^ De Vaan, Michiel (2008) “sordēs, -is”, in Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 576
- ^ Ernout, Alfred, Meillet, Antoine (1985) “sordeo”, in Dictionnaire étymologique de la langue latine: histoire des mots (in French), 4th edition, with additions and corrections of Jacques André, Paris: Klincksieck, published 2001, page 637
Further reading
- “sordeo”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “sordeo”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- sordeo in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.