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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
- shrew, shrewmouse
- (Late Latin, Medieval Latin) mouse
Declension
Third-declension noun.
Derived terms
Descendants
- Balkan Romance:
- Dalmatian:
- Italo-Romance:
- North Italian:
- Gallo-Romance:
- West Iberian:
- Insular Romance:
- Translingual: Sorex
- Various derived terms meaning 'bat':
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