sors

See also: sörs

English

Noun

sors

1. plural of sor

Anagrams

• RSOs, Ross, SROs, ross

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

• IPA^(key): [ˈʃorʃ]
• Hyphenation: sors
• Rhymes: -orʃ

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

• sorsol
• sorstalan

 

Compound words

• balsors
• rabszolgasors
• sorscsapás
• sorsdöntő
• sorsedzett
• sorsfordító
• sorsfordulat
• sorsforduló
• sorsharag
• sorshúzás
• sorsjáték
• sorsjegy
• sorskérdés
• sorsközösség
• sorstárs
• sorsvetés
• vaksors

 

Expressions

• a sors fintora
• sorsot húz
• sorsot vet

 

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

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /sors/, [s̠ɔrs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /sors/, [sɔrs]

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 [to be] 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

• cōnsors
• dissors
• exsors
• sortiārius
• sortifex
• sortior

Descendants

• → Albanian: short
• Aromanian: soarti, soarte
• Asturian: suerte
• Catalan: sort
• Dalmatian: suart
• ⇒ English: sorcery
• French: sort
• Friulian: sorte
• Galician: sorte
• → Hungarian: sors
• Istriot: suorto
• Italian: sorte
• Neapolitan: ciorta
• Norman: sort
• Occitan: sòrt
• Old French: sorte
  • → English: sort
  • French: sorte
    • → Central Franconian: Zoot, Zort
    • → Danish: sort
    • → German: Sorte
    • → Russian: сорт (sort)
    • → Yiddish: סאָרט (sort)
  • Norman: sorte
  • → Scots: sort
• Portuguese: sorte
• Romanian: soartă, soarte
• Romansch: sort
• Sardinian: solte, solti, sorte, sorti
• Sicilian: sorti
• Spanish: suerte
• Venetian: sòrt, sorte
• ⇒ Vulgar Latin: *sorticula
  • Catalan: sortilla
  • Old Galician-Portuguese: sortella
    • Galician: sortella
  • Old Spanish: sortija
    • Spanish: sortija

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^[1], 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