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English
Etymology
From the Latin squālor.
Pronunciation
Noun
squalor (usually uncountable, plural squalors)
- Filthiness and degradation, as from neglect or poverty
- Synonyms: squalidness, foulness, filthiness, squalidity
2013, Car Seat Headrest, We Can't Afford (Your Depression Anymore):We’re living in squalor
That’s the name of this house
This house is called squalor by all
There’s a door broken somewhere but I never can remember quite where.
1860, Isaac Taylor, Ultimate Civilization: And other essays:The heterogenous indigent multitude, everywhere wearing nearly the same aspect of squalor.
Derived terms
Translations
squalidness
- Bulgarian: мръсотия (bg) f (mrǎsotija), мизерия (bg) f (mizerija)
- Catalan: misèria (ca) f, indigència f
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 骯髒 / 肮脏 (zh) (āngzāng)
- Danish: snusk, smuds
- Dutch: weerzinwekkende vuiligheid, miserabele omstandigheden
- Finnish: surkeus (fi), kurjuus (fi)
- French: saleté repoussante, conditions misérables
- Galician: rafa (gl) f, laceira (gl) f, pioca f, caiñeza f, gafura (gl) f
- German: Schmutz (de), Elend (de) n, Vernachlässigung (de) f, Ärmlichkeit (de) f, Dreck (de) m, Verschmutzung (de) f, Unreinheit (de) f, Verderbtheit (de) f, Verkommenheit (de) f
- Hungarian: nyomor (hu), mocsok (hu), nélkülözés (hu)
- Latin: squālor m
- Maori: hawa
- Polish: plugastwo n, brud (pl) m
- Portuguese: esqualidez (pt) f, esqualor m
- Russian: грязь (ru) f (grjazʹ) (dirt), убо́жество (ru) n (ubóžestvo)
- Spanish: miseria (es), inmundicia (es) f
- Swedish: misär (sv) c, elände (sv) n, smuts (sv) n, lort (sv) c, snusk (sv) n
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References
- “squalor”, in The Century Dictionary , New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.
- “squalor”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
Latin
Etymology
From squālus (“dirty, unkempt”) + -or.
Pronunciation
Noun
squālor m (genitive squālōris); third declension
- stiffness, roughness
- dirtiness, filthiness, foulness, squalor
- Synonym: paedor
Declension
Third-declension noun.
Derived terms
References
- “squalor”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “squalor”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- squalor in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.