sors

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See also: sörs

English

Noun

sors

  1. plural of sor

Anagrams

Catalan

Noun

sors

  1. plural of sor

French

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /sɔʁ/
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Verb

sors

  1. inflection of sortir:
    1. first/second-person singular present indicative
    2. second-person singular imperative

Hungarian

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin sors (“fate”).

Pronunciation

Noun

sors (plural sorsok)

  1. fate

Declension

Inflection (stem in -o-, back harmony)
singular plural
nominative sors sorsok
accusative sorsot sorsokat
dative sorsnak sorsoknak
instrumental sorssal sorsokkal
causal-final sorsért sorsokért
translative sorssá sorsokká
terminative sorsig sorsokig
essive-formal sorsként sorsokként
essive-modal — —
inessive sorsban sorsokban
superessive sorson sorsokon
adessive sorsnál sorsoknál
illative sorsba sorsokba
sublative sorsra sorsokra
allative sorshoz sorsokhoz
elative sorsból sorsokból
delative sorsról sorsokról
ablative sorstól sorsoktól
non-attributive
possessive - singular 		sorsé sorsoké
non-attributive
possessive - plural 		sorséi sorsokéi
Possessive forms of sors
possessor single possession multiple possessions
1st person sing. sorsom sorsaim
2nd person sing. sorsod sorsaid
3rd person sing. sorsa sorsai
1st person plural sorsunk sorsaink
2nd person plural sorsotok sorsaitok
3rd person plural sorsuk sorsaik

Derived terms

Compound words
Expressions

Further reading

  • sors in Bárczi, Géza and László Országh. A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára (‘The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language’, abbr.: ÉrtSz.). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: →ISBN

Latin

Etymology

From Proto-Italic *sortis, from Proto-Indo-European *ser- (“to bind”). Cognate with serō, seriēs, sermō.

Pronunciation

Noun

sors f (genitive sortis); third declension

  1. anything used to determine chances, lot
  2. a casting or drawing of lots, a decision by lot, by fate, or by allotment or share
    • 29 BCE – 19 BCE, Virgil, Aeneid 2.201:
      “Lāocoōn, ductus Neptūnō sorte sacerdōs .”
      “Laocoön, chosen by lot the priest for Neptune .” – Aeneas
      (See: sortition.)
  3. oracular response (since many were written on lots)
  4. fate, destiny, chance, fortune, condition
    Synonyms: fātum, fortūna, necessitās
    • 8 CE, Ovid, Fasti 3.379–380:
      tum, memor imperiī sortem cōnsistere in illō,
      cōnsilium multae calliditātis init.
      Then, mindful that imperial destiny depends upon it, he initiates an ingenious plan.
  5. share, part
  6. capital bearing interest, principal
  7. rank, class, order
    Synonyms: ōrdō, classis, gradus
  8. (Medieval Latin) partitioning of an inheritance by lot
  9. (Medieval Latin) share in an estate or inheritance, especially one divided by lot
  10. (Medieval Latin) estate, holding
  11. (Medieval Latin, law) lands and easements attached to a property
  12. (Medieval Latin) realm

Declension

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

Case Singular Plural
Nominative sors sortēs
Genitive sortis sortium
Dative sortī sortibus
Accusative sortem sortēs
sortīs
Ablative sorte
sortī 		sortibus
Vocative sors sortēs

Derived terms

Descendants

References

  • “sors”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • “sors”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • sors 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)
  • sors in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
  • Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎, London: Macmillan and Co.
    • to be contented: rebus suis, sorte sua contentum esse
    • the province of Syria has fallen to some one's lot: alicui Syria (sorte) obvēnit, obtigit
  • Niermeyer, Jan Frederik (1976) “sors”, in Mediae Latinitatis Lexicon Minus, Leiden, Boston: E. J. Brill, page 981

Middle English

Noun

sors

  1. Alternative form of sours

Swedish

Noun

sors

  1. indefinite genitive plural of so
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