sorte
English edit
Noun edit
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 edit
Danish edit
Adjective edit
sorte
Estonian edit
Noun edit
sorte
French edit
Etymology edit
Inherited from Old French sorte, borrowed from Latin sortem. Doublet of the inherited sort.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
sorte f (plural sortes)
Derived terms edit
Descendants edit
- → Central Franconian: Zoot, Zort
- → Danish: sort
- → German: Sorte
- → Russian: сорт (sort)
- → Yiddish: סאָרט (sort)
Verb edit
sorte
Further reading edit
- “sorte”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Anagrams edit
Galician edit
Etymology edit
From Old Galician-Portuguese sorte (13th century, Cantigas de Santa Maria), from Latin sors, sortem (“lot; fate”). Cognate with Portuguese sorte and Spanish suerte.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
sorte f (plural sortes)
- fate, fortune
- luck
- share, allotment
- lot (a distinct portion or plot of rural land, usually smaller than a field)
- Synonym: mera
Derived terms edit
References edit
- “sorte” in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006–2022.
- “sorte” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006–2018.
- “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 edit
Etymology 1 edit
From Latin sortem, from Proto-Italic *sortis, from the Proto-Indo-European root *ser- (“to sort, lineup”).
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
sorte f (plural sorti)
Etymology 2 edit
See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
sorte f pl
Etymology 3 edit
See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
Pronunciation edit
Verb edit
sorte
Etymology 4 edit
See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
Pronunciation edit
Participle edit
sorte f pl
References edit
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 sorte in Luciano Canepari, Dizionario di Pronuncia Italiana (DiPI)
- ^ sorta in Luciano Canepari, Dizionario di Pronuncia Italiana (DiPI)
Anagrams edit
Latin edit
Noun edit
sorte
References edit
- sorte in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
Norman edit
Etymology edit
From Old French sorte, borrowed from Latin sors, sortem. Cf. sort.
Noun edit
sorte f (plural sortes)
Norwegian Bokmål edit
Adjective edit
sorte
Old French edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from Latin sors, sortem. Compare the inherited sort.
Noun edit
sorte oblique singular, f (oblique plural sortes, nominative singular sorte, nominative plural sortes)
Descendants edit
Portuguese edit
Etymology edit
From Old Galician-Portuguese sorte, from Latin sortem, from Proto-Italic *sortis, from Proto-Indo-European *ser- (“to bind”).
Pronunciation edit
- Hyphenation: sor‧te
Noun edit
sorte f (plural sortes)
- (dated) sort
- fate
- luck
- 2007, J. K. Rowling, Harry Potter e as Relíquias da Morte [Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows] (Harry Potter; 7), Rio de Janeiro: Rocco, →ISBN, page 350:
- Harry mal respirava: será que a sorte, a pura sorte poderia livrá-los dessa encrenca?
- Harry was badly breathing: maybe luck, pure luck could save them from that trouble?
Derived terms edit
Scots edit
Etymology edit
From Middle English sorte, from Old French sorte.
Noun edit
sorte
References edit
- Scottish Language Dictionaries (2017) “sort”, in Concise Scots Dictionary, 2nd edition, Edinburgh University Press, →ISBN, page 659