different between pterosaur vs sordes

English

Alternative forms

• pterosaurus

Etymology

From Ancient Greek ?????? (pterón, “wing”) +?????? (saûros, “lizard”), literally translating to "wing lizard".

Pronunciation

• (US) IPA^(key): /?t????s??/

Noun

pterosaur (plural pterosaurs)

1. Any of several flying reptiles, of the extinct order Pterosauria, including the pterodactyls. [from c. 1860]
   • 2020, Shona Husk, Close to the Truth, HarperCollins Australia (?ISBN)

     Batsquatch, pterosaurs and the River Man. She had three weeks in Washington State tracking down the local legends. There was nothing ordinary about her job as the biologist on the television show Cryptid or Hoax?

Translations

Anagrams

• prosateur

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.