xorta

• IPA^(key): /ˈʃɔr.ta/

Borrowed from Sicilian sciorta, sorta, from Latin sors. Doublet of xorti (“fate, luck”). In contemporary Sicilian the form with sci- seems less common, but it is still found.

xorta f (plural xorti)

1. kind, sort

Short for xorta waħda (“in the same way, no different”, literally “one sort”) and mhux xorta? (“isn't it still the same?”).

xorta

1. still, all the same

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