sordes

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English

Etymology

From Latin sordes, related to sordere.

Pronunciation

Noun

sordes pl (plural only)

  1. Deposits of dirt or bacteria on the body, discharges; bacterial deposits on the teeth or tongue.
    • 1973, Patrick O'Brian, HMS Surprise:
      Fresh sheets, sponging, a spoonful of animal soup, sordes removed from his cracked lips, black in the candlelight.

Descendants

  • → Welsh: siwrwd (“fragments”)
  • → Welsh: sorod (“dregs”)

Anagrams

Asturian

Adjective

sordes

  1. feminine plural of sordu

Catalan

Pronunciation

Adjective

sordes

  1. feminine plural of sord

Latin

Etymology

From Proto-Italic *swordi- (“dirt”) or *swordo- (“dirty”)[1] + -ēs. Cognate with Proto-Germanic *swartaz (“black”), which could also go back to *sword-; within Latin, suāsum (“dirty gray color”) could be from the same root,[2] but this relationship is not certain since it is phonetically problematic.[1]

Pronunciation

Noun

sordēs f (genitive sordis); third declension

  1. dirt, filth, squalor
  2. meanness, stinginess, niggardliness
  3. (figurative) humiliation

Declension

Third-declension noun (i-stem, ablative singular in -e or -ī).

singular plural
nominative sordēs sordēs
genitive sordis sordium
dative sordī sordibus
accusative sordem sordēs
sordīs
ablative sorde
sordī 		sordibus
vocative sordēs sordēs

Derived terms

Descendants

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 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
  2. ^ Ernout, Alfred, Meillet, Antoine (1985) “sordes”, 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

  • “sordes”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • “sordes”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • sordes in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
  • Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎, London: Macmillan and Co.
    • to be in great trouble, affliction: in sordibus luctuque iacēre
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