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.

Anagrams

Asturian

Adjective

sordes

  1. feminine plural of sordu

Catalan

Pronunciation

Adjective

sordes

  1. feminine plural of sord

Latin

Etymology

From sordeō +‎ -ēs. More at sordeō.

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).

Case Singular Plural
Nominative sordēs sordēs
Genitive sordis sordium
Dative sordī sordibus
Accusative sordem sordēs
sordīs
Ablative sorde
sordī 		sordibus
Vocative sordēs sordēs

Derived terms

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References

  • “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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