sordes

See also: Sordes

English

Etymology

From Latin sordes, related to sordere.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈsɔːdiːz/
• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈsoɹdiz/

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.

Descendants

• → Welsh: siwrwd (“fragments”)
• → Welsh: sorod (“dregs”)

Anagrams

• Sedors, Soders, dorses, dosers, dosser, resods, rossed, soders

Asturian

Adjective

sordes

1. feminine plural of sordu

Catalan

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Northern) [ˈsur.dəs]
• IPA^(key): (Balearic, Central) [ˈsor.dəs]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [ˈsoɾ.ðes]
• IPA^(key): (Northwestern) [ˈsor.des]

Adjective

sordes

1. feminine plural of sord

Latin

Etymology

From Proto-Italic *swordi- (“dirt”) or *swordo- (“dirty”) + -ēs. Cognate with Proto-Germanic *swartaz (“black”), which could also go back to *sword-; within Latin, suāsum (“dirty gray color”) could be from the same root, but this relationship is not certain since it is phonetically problematic.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈsɔr.deːs]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈsɔr.des]

Noun

sordēs f (genitive sordis); third declension

1. dirt, filth, squalor
   • c. 194 BCE, Plautus, Poenulus 1.2.106.Viden tu? Pleni oculi sorderum qui erant, iam splendent mihi.
2. meanness, stinginess, niggardliness
3. (figurative) humiliation

Declension

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

	singular	plural
nominative	sordēs	sordēs
genitive	sordis	sordium sordērum
dative	sordī	sordibus
accusative	sordem	sordēs sordīs
ablative	sorde sordī sordē	sordibus
vocative	sordēs	sordēs

5th declension sordē and sordērum (Poenulus 314) are attested in Plautus.

Derived terms

• sordulentus

Related terms

• sordeō
• sorditūdō

Descendants

• Sardinian: solde (“worm”)
• → English: sordes
• → Translingual: Sordes

Further reading

• “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^[2], London: Macmillan and Co.
  • to be in great trouble, affliction: in sordibus luctuque iacēre