sordes

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From Latin sordes, related to sordere.

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Noun[edit]

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.

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Asturian[edit]

Adjective[edit]

sordes

  1. feminine plural of sordu

Catalan[edit]

Pronunciation[edit]

Adjective[edit]

sordes

  1. feminine plural of sord

Latin[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From sordeō +‎ -ēs. More at sordeō.

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Noun[edit]

sordēs f (genitive sordis); third declension

  1. dirt, filth, squalor
  2. meanness, stinginess, niggardliness
  3. (figurative) humiliation

Declension[edit]

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

Case Singular Plural
Nominative sordēs sordēs
Genitive sordis sordium
Dative sordī sordibus
Accusative sordem sordēs
sordīs
Ablative sorde
sordī
sordibus
Vocative sordēs sordēs

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References[edit]

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