squalor
English edit
Etymology edit
Pronunciation edit
- (UK) IPA(key): /ˈskwɒlə(ɹ)/
- (US) IPA(key): /ˈskwɑlɚ/
Audio (UK) (file) - Rhymes: -ɒlə(ɹ)
- Homophone: squaller (in accents with the cot-caught merger)
Noun edit
squalor (usually uncountable, plural squalors)
- Filthiness and degradation, as from neglect or poverty
- Synonyms: squalidness, foulness, filthiness, squalidity
- 2013, Car Seat Headrest, We Can't Afford (Your Depression Anymore):
- We’re living in squalor
That’s the name of this house
This house is called squalor by all
There’s a door broken somewhere but I never can remember quite where.
- 1860, Isaac Taylor, Ultimate Civilization: And other essays:
- The heterogenous indigent multitude, everywhere wearing nearly the same aspect of squalor.
- 1852 March – 1853 September, Charles Dickens, “Chapter XII”, in Bleak House, London: Bradbury and Evans, […], published 1853, →OCLC:
- bring this sort of squalor among the upper classes
Derived terms edit
Translations edit
squalidness
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References edit
- “squalor”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.
- “squalor”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
Latin edit
Etymology edit
From squālus (“dirty, unkempt”) + -or.
Pronunciation edit
- (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈskʷaː.lor/, [ˈs̠kʷäːɫ̪ɔr]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈskwa.lor/, [ˈskwäːlor]
Noun edit
squālor m (genitive squālōris); third declension
Declension edit
Third-declension noun.
Case | Singular | Plural |
---|---|---|
Nominative | squālor | squālōrēs |
Genitive | squālōris | squālōrum |
Dative | squālōrī | squālōribus |
Accusative | squālōrem | squālōrēs |
Ablative | squālōre | squālōribus |
Vocative | squālor | squālōrēs |
Derived terms edit
References edit
- “squalor”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “squalor”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- squalor in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.