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sorta
English
Etymology
Written form of a reduction of sort of.
Pronunciation
- (General American) IPA(key): /?s??t?/, [?s????]
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /?s??t?/, [?s??t?]
Adverb
sorta (not comparable)
- (informal) Contraction of sort of.
- The portraits on the wall aren't so useful, just sorta cool to have around
- 1912, Caspar Whitney, Albert Britt, Outing: Sport, Adventure, Travel, Fiction, Volume 60, page 680,
- 'Webb,' he says sorta sorrowful like, 'it looks like a howlin' shame to have a bang-up American girl hooked up to a money-grubbin' member of the British nobility. […] '
- 1993 July, Sort of a Hero, in Boys' Life, page 34,
- In fact the whole thing sorta backfired on old Chuck — and on me and Pete too. Instead of laughing about it, most people thought it was pretty crummy.
Synonyms
- kinda
Translations
Contraction
sorta (plural sortsa)
- (colloquial) Sort of.
- There's gotta be some sorta explanation.
- 2001, Lawrence A. Wenzel, The Sandcastle at High Tide, page 97,
- He glanced at her then back at me. "What sorta research?"
- "Well, war correspondent might not be too far off," I said.
Anagrams
- Astor, Astro, Roats, Sarot, Troas, artos, astro, astro-, ratos, roast, rotas, taros, tarso-
Icelandic
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?s?r?ta/
- Rhymes: -?r?ta
Noun
sorta f (genitive singular sortu, nominative plural sortur)
- black dye
Declension
Derived terms
- sortulyng (“common bearberry, Arctostaphylos uva-ursi”)
Related terms
- sorti (“darkness; dark weather”)
- sortna (“to darken”)
- svartur (“black”)
Italian
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?sor.ta/
- Rhymes: -?rta
- Rhymes: -orta
Noun
sorta f (plural sorte)
- sort, type, kind
Verb
sorta
- feminine singular past participle of sorgere
Anagrams
- astro, sarto, starò, tarso
Romanian
Etymology
From German sortieren
Verb
a sorta (third-person singular present sorteaz?, past participle sortat) 1st conj.
- to sort
Conjugation
Serbo-Croatian
Etymology
From German Sorte and/or Italian sorta; all eventually from Latin sors. See English sort for more.
Noun
s?rta f (Cyrillic spelling ??????)
- sort, kind
Declension
Veps
Etymology
(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)
Verb
sorta
- to bring down, to knock down
- to cut down, to chop down, to fell
- to drop (by accident)
Inflection
References
- Zajceva, N. G.; Mullonen, M. I. (2007) , “??????, ??????, ???????, ???????”, in Uz’ venä-vepsläine vajehnik / Novyj russko-vepsskij slovar? [New Russian–Veps Dictionary], Petrozavodsk: Periodika
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sorte
English
Noun
sorte (plural sortes)
- Obsolete form of sort.
- 1533, R. Saltwood:
- As plesaunt to the ere as the blacke sanctus
Of a sad sorte vpon a mery pyn.
- As plesaunt to the ere as the blacke sanctus
- 1533, R. Saltwood:
Anagrams
- Resto, estro-, resto, roset, rotes, store, tores, torse
Danish
Adjective
sorte
- definite of sort
- plural of sort
Estonian
Noun
sorte
- partitive plural of sort
French
Etymology
From Old French sorte, borrowed from Latin sors, sortem. Doublet of the inherited sort.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /s??t/
Noun
sorte f (plural sortes)
- sort, kind, type
- way, manner
Derived terms
Descendants
- ? Central Franconian: Zoot, Zort
- ? German: Sorte
Verb
sorte
- first/third-person singular present subjunctive of sortir
Further reading
- “sorte” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
Anagrams
- resto, rotes, store, tores, torse
Galician
Etymology
From Old Galician and Old Portuguese sorte (13th century, Cantigas de Santa Maria), from Latin sors, sortem (“lot; fate”). Cognate with Portuguese sorte and Spanish suerte.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?s??te?/
Noun
sorte f (plural sortes)
- fate, fortune
- luck
- share, allotment
- Synonyms: adra, lote, mera, partilla, quiñón
- lot (a distinct portion or plot of rural land, usually smaller than a field)
- Synonym: mera
Derived terms
- a sortes
- sortear
- sortudo
References
- “sorte” in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006-2012.
- “sorte” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006-2016.
- “sorte” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006-2013.
- “sorte” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
- “sorte” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.
Italian
Etymology 1
From Latin sortem, accusative form of sors, from Proto-Italic *sortis, from the Proto-Indo-European root *ser- (“to sort, lineup”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?s?r.te/
- Rhymes: -?rte
- Hyphenation: sòr?te
Noun
sorte f (plural sorti)
- fate
- Synonym: destino
Etymology 2
See the etymology of the main entry.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?s?r.te/
- Rhymes: -?rte
- Hyphenation: sòr?te
Noun
sorte f pl
- plural of sorta
Etymology 3
See the etymology of the main entry.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?s?r.te/
- Rhymes: -?rte
- Hyphenation: sòr?te
Verb
sorte
- third-person singular present of sortire
Etymology 4
See the etymology of the main entry.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?sor.te/
- Rhymes: -orte
- Hyphenation: sór?te
Participle
sorte
- feminine plural of sorto
Anagrams
- estro, resto, restò, serto, terso, torse
Latin
Noun
sorte
- ablative singular of sors
References
- sorte in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
Norman
Etymology
From Old French sorte, borrowed from Latin sors, sortem. Cf. sort.
Noun
sorte f (plural sortes)
- (Guernsey) sort
Norwegian Bokmål
Adjective
sorte
- definite singular of sort
- plural of sort
Old French
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin sors, sortem. Compare the inherited sort.
Noun
sorte f (oblique plural sortes, nominative singular sorte, nominative plural sortes)
- sort; type
Descendants
- ? English: sort
- French: sorte
- Norman: sorte
- ? Scots: sort
Portuguese
Etymology
From Old Portuguese sorte, from Latin sortis accusative singular of sors, from Proto-Italic *sortis, from Proto-Indo-European *ser- (“to bind”).
Pronunciation
- (Portugal) IPA(key): /?s??.t?/
- Hyphenation: sor?te
Noun
sorte f (plural sortes)
- (dated) sort
- fate
- luck
Derived terms
- sortudo
Scots
Etymology
From Middle English sorte, from Old French sorte.
Noun
sorte
- Obsolete form of sort.
References
- Scottish Language Dictionaries (2017) , “sort”, in Concise Scots Dictionary, 2nd edition, Edinburgh University Press, ?ISBN, page 659
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