squalor

From the Latin squālor.

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈskwɒlə(ɹ)/
• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈskwɑlɚ/

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• Rhymes: -ɒlə(ɹ)
• Homophone: squaller (cot–caught merger)

squalor (usually uncountable, plural squalors)

1. Filthiness and degradation, as from neglect or poverty

   Synonyms: squalidness, foulness, filthiness, squalidity

   • 1860, Isaac Taylor, Ultimate Civilization: And other essays:

     The heterogenous indigent multitude, everywhere wearing nearly the same aspect of squalor.

   • 1852 March – 1853 September, Charles Dickens, “Chapter XII”, in Bleak House, London: Bradbury and Evans, […], published 1853, →OCLC:

     bring this sort of squalor among the upper classes

   • 2013, Car Seat Headrest, We Can't Afford (Your Depression Anymore):

     We’re living in squalor
     That’s the name of this house
     This house is called squalor by all
     There’s a door broken somewhere but I never can remember quite where.

• senile squalor syndrome

• William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “squalor”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.
• “squalor”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

From squālus (“dirty, unkempt”) +‎ -or.

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈskʷaː.ɫɔr]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈskʷaː.lor]

squālor m (genitive squālōris); third declension

1. stiffness, roughness
2. dirtiness, filthiness, foulness, squalor

   Synonym: paedor

Third-declension noun.

• squāleō

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