sordes

From Latin sordes, related to sordere.

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

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.

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

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

sordes

1. feminine plural of sordu

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

sordes

1. feminine plural of sord

From Proto-Italic *swordi- (“dirt”) or *swordo- (“dirty”)^[1] + -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,^[2] but this relationship is not certain since it is phonetically problematic.^[1]

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈsɔr.deːs]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈsɔr.d̪es]

sordēs f (genitive sordis); third declension

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

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

• sordulentus

• sordeō

• → Translingual: Sordes

• “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