sorex

See also: Sorex

Latin

Uncertain; possibly related to susurrus (“whisper, rustling”), or Ancient Greek ὕραξ (húrax, “shrewmouse”).

sōrex m (genitive sōricis); third declension

Third-declension noun.

Balkan Romance:
- Aromanian: shoaric, shorãc
- Romanian: șoarece, șoarec
Dalmatian:
- surco
Italo-Romance:
- Italian: sorcio, sorice (archaic), sorca, sorga (Marche), sorce, sorco
- Neapolitan: sorece
- Sicilian: surci, sùrici
North Italian:
- Friulian: surîs
- Lombard: sorec
- Romansch: schuorsch
- Venetan: sorxe
Gallo-Romance:
- Old French: soris
  - French: souris
    - Michif: soorii
  - Norman: souoris
  - Picard:
    Northern: suris
    
    Southern: seris, seuris, soiris
  - ⇒ Poitevin-Saintongeais: sourit
  - Walloon: soris
West Iberian:
- Old Spanish: sorze
  - Spanish: sorce
Insular Romance:
- Sardinian:
  - Logudorese: sorighe
  - Nuorese: soriche
Translingual: Sorex
Various derived terms meaning 'bat':
- ⇒ Dalmatian: surca pizigaun, surca pitsigaun
- ⇒ French: chauvesouris
- ⇒ Occitan: soritz pennada
- ⇒ Sardinian: sorighe pinnadulu
- ⇒ Sicilian: suriğe ulateu, sorici occelli (Calabria)

“sorex”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
“sorex”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
"sorex", 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)
sorex in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
Meyer-Lübke, Wilhelm (1911) “sōrex”, in Romanisches etymologisches Wörterbuch (in German), page 610