sorex

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Latin

Etymology

Uncertain; possibly related to susurrus (“whisper, rustling”), or Ancient Greek ὕραξ (húrax, “shrewmouse”).

Pronunciation

Noun

sōrex m (genitive sōricis); third declension

  1. shrew, shrewmouse
  2. (Late Latin, Medieval Latin) mouse

Declension

Third-declension noun.

Case Singular Plural
Nominative sōrex sōricēs
Genitive sōricis sōricum
Dative sōricī sōricibus
Accusative sōricem sōricēs
Ablative sōrice sōricibus
Vocative sōrex sōricēs

Derived terms

Descendants

References

  • “sorex”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • “sorex”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • sorex in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
  • sorex in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
  • Meyer-Lübke, Wilhelm (1911) “sōrex”, in Romanisches etymologisches Wörterbuch (in German), page 610
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