sortie

See also: Sortie

English

Etymology

Borrowed from French sortie (“exit, end”).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈsɔ.ti/, /sɔˈti/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈsɔɹ.ti/, /sɔɹˈti/

  • Audio (UK)

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Noun

sortie (plural sorties)

1. (military) An attack made by troops from a besieged position.
2. (military) An operational flight carried out by a single military aircraft.

   Russia said it carried out 55 sorties in the last 24 hours.

   • 2019, Jeff Foust, “NASA’s Lunar Space Station Is a Great/Terrible Idea,” IEEE Spectrum:

     Finally, the astronauts will descend to the lunar surface. After their sortie on the moon, they’ll return to the orbital station

3. (figuratively, sports) An attacking move

Translations

an attack made by troops from a besieged position — see sally

an operational flight carried out by a single military aircraft

• German: Mission (de) f, Kampfeinsatz (de) m, Ausflug (de) m (euphemistic)
• Japanese: 出撃 (ja) (syutsugeki)

• Russian: боевой (ru) (bojevoj) вылет (ru) (vylet)
• Serbo-Croatian: borbeni let m

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Translations to be checked

• French: sortie (fr) f
• Polish: desant (pl), wypad (pl)

• Spanish: salida (es) f

Verb

sortie (third-person singular simple present sorties, present participle sortying or sortieing, simple past and past participle sortied)

1. (transitive) To sally.

Synonyms

• (an offensive military mission): scramble

Translations

to sally

• German: einen Ausfall wagen

Anagrams

• Storie, Tories, oister, restio, storie, tiroes, tories, triose, œstri

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French

Etymology

Feminine past participle of sortir; from Latin sortīrī, present active infinitive of sortior (“cast lots, divide, receive”), possibly influenced by a derivative of surgō (“get up, arise”). Compare Italian sortire (“produce”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sɔʁ.ti/

• audio

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Noun

sortie f (plural sorties)

1. exit, way out

   Antonym: entrée

2. act of exiting
3. end; final part of
4. release (of a film, book, album etc)

   Synonyms: édition, parution

5. (school) outing, trip (lasting no longer than a day)
6. (military) leave, sally, sortie
7. (electronics) output, connector

   Synonym: prise

Usage notes

The meaning "end, release" is used of things such as school, theater etc. where a literal "exit" also occurs.

Derived terms

• de sortie
• porte de sortie
• sortie de bain
• sortie de capitaux
• sortie de route
• sortie des artistes
• sortie de secours

 

See also

• entrée

Participle

sortie

1. feminine singular of the past participle of sortir

Further reading

• “sortie” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Anagrams

• orties, rôties, seroit, sirote, siroté