sordes

See also: Sordes

English

Etymology

From Latin sordes, related to sordere.

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /ˈsɔːdiːz/

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.

Anagrams

Catalan

Adjective

sordes

  1. feminine plural of sord

Latin

Etymology

From sordeō +‎ -ēs. More at sordeō.

Pronunciation
  • (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈsor.des/, [ˈsɔr.dɛs]

Noun

sordes f (genitive sordis); third declension

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

Third declension, alternative accusative singular in -im, alternative ablative singular in -ī and accusative plural in -īs.

Case Singular Plural
Nominative sordes sordēs
Genitive sordis sordium
Dative sordī sordibus
Accusative sordem
sordim		 sordēs
sordīs
Ablative sorde
sordī		 sordibus
Vocative sordes sordēs

Derived terms

References
  • 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, London: Macmillan and Co.
    • to be in great trouble, affliction: in sordibus luctuque iacēre
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