sorex

See also: Sorex

Latin

Etymology

Uncertain; possibly related to susurrus (“whisper, rustling”), or Ancient Greek ὕραξ (húrax, “shrewmouse”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈsoː.reks/, [ˈs̠oːrɛks̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈso.reks/, [ˈsɔːreks]
• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈso.reks/, [ˈs̠ɔrɛks̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈso.reks/, [ˈsɔːreks]

Noun

sōrex m (genitive sōricis); third declension

1. shrew, shrewmouse
2. (Late Latin, Medieval Latin) mouse

Declension

Third-declension noun.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	sōrex	sōricēs
Genitive	sōricis	sōricum
Dative	sōricī	sōricibus
Accusative	sōricem	sōricēs
Ablative	sōrice	sōricibus
Vocative	sōrex	sōricēs

Derived terms

• sōricīnus

Descendants

• Balkan Romance:
  • Aromanian: shoaric, shorãc
  • Romanian: șoarece, șoarec
• Dalmatian:
  • surco
• Italo-Romance:
  • Italian: sorcio, sorice (archaic), sorca, sorga (Marche)
  • Neapolitan: sorece
  • Sicilian: surci, sùrici
• North Italian:
  • Friulian: surîs
  • Lombard: sorec
  • Romansch: schuorsch
  • Venetian: sorxe
• Gallo-Romance:
  • Old French: soris
    • French: souris
      • Michif: soorii
    • Norman: souoris
    • Picard:

      Northern: suris

      Southern: seris, seuris, soiris

    • ⇒ Poitevin-Saintongeais: sourit
    • Walloon: soris
• West Iberian:
  • Old Spanish: sorze
    • Spanish: sorce
• Insular Romance:
  • Sardinian:
    • Logudorese: sorighe
    • Nuorese: soriche
• Translingual: Sorex
• Various derived terms meaning 'bat':
  • ⇒ Dalmatian: surca pizigaun, surca pitsigaun
  • ⇒ French: chauvesouris
  • ⇒ Occitan: soritz pennada
  • ⇒ Sardinian: sorighe pinnadulu
  • ⇒ Sicilian: suriğe ulateu, sorici occelli (Calabria)

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