sordes

See also: Sordes

English

Etymology

From Latin sordes, related to sordere.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈsɔːdiːz/
• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈsoɹdiz/

Noun

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.

Descendants

• → Welsh: siwrwd (“fragments”)
• → Welsh: sorod (“dregs”)

Anagrams

• Sedors, Soders, dorses, dosers, dosser, resods, rossed, soders

Asturian

Adjective

sordes

1. feminine plural of sordu

Catalan

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic) [ˈsor.dəs]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [ˈsoɾ.ðes]

Adjective

sordes

1. feminine plural of sord

Latin

Etymology

From Proto-Italic *swordi- (“dirt”) or *swordo- (“dirty”) + -ēs. Cognate with Proto-Germanic *swartaz (“black”), which could also go back to *sword-; within Latin, suāsum (“dirty gray color”) could be from the same root, but this relationship is not certain since it is phonetically problematic.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈsor.deːs/, [ˈs̠ɔrd̪eːs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈsor.des/, [ˈsɔrd̪es]

Noun

sordēs f (genitive sordis); third declension

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

Declension

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

	singular	plural
nominative	sordēs	sordēs
genitive	sordis	sordium
dative	sordī	sordibus
accusative	sordem	sordēs sordīs
ablative	sorde sordī	sordibus
vocative	sordēs	sordēs

Derived terms

• sordulentus

Related terms

• sordeō

Further reading

• “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