surdus

Latin

Etymology

From the Proto-Indo-European *swer- (“ringing, whistling”). See also Latin susurrus.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈsur.dus/, [ˈs̠ʊrd̪ʊs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈsur.dus/, [ˈsurd̪us]

Adjective

surdus (feminine surda, neuter surdum); first/second-declension adjective

1. deaf
2. inattentive, unresponsive
3. silent, noiseless, still
4. indistinct, dull, faint

Declension

First/second-declension adjective.

Number	Singular				Plural
Case / Gender	Masculine	Feminine	Neuter		Masculine	Feminine	Neuter
Nominative	surdus	surda	surdum		surdī	surdae	surda
Genitive	surdī	surdae	surdī		surdōrum	surdārum	surdōrum
Dative	surdō		surdō		surdīs
Accusative	surdum	surdam	surdum		surdōs	surdās	surda
Ablative	surdō	surdā	surdō		surdīs
Vocative	surde	surda	surdum		surdī	surdae	surda

Derived terms

• absurdus
• surdaster

Descendants

• Albanian: shurdh
• Aragonese: xordo
• Aromanian: surdu
• Asturian: sordu, xordu
• Catalan: sord
• Corsican: sordu
• Dalmatian: suard
• English: surd
• Esperanto: surda
• Franco-Provençal: sôrd
• French: sourd, sourde
• Friulian: sort, sord

• Galician: xordo
• Istriot: surdo
• Italian: sordo
• Occitan: sord
• Portuguese: surdo
• Romanian: surd
• Sardinian: suldu, surdu
• Sicilian: surdu
• Spanish: sordo
• Venetian: sordo

References

• “surdus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “surdus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• surdus 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)
• surdus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.