different between jurassic vs sordes

English

Etymology

From Latin sordes, related to sordere.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?s??di?z/

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

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

Catalan

Adjective

sordes

1. feminine plural of sord

Latin

Etymology

From sorde? +? -?s. More at sorde?.

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /?sor.de?s/, [?s??rd?e?s?]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /?sor.des/, [?s?rd??s]

Noun

sord?s f (genitive sordis); third declension

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

Declension

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

Derived terms

• sordulentus

Related terms

• sorde?

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?^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.