sord
See also: Sord
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Etymology 1 edit
From Middle English sowrde, from Old French sourdre (“to rise”), that is, "to rise in flight, as a flock of birds", from Latin surgō. Related to surge.
Noun edit
sord (plural sords)
- (rare, obsolete) A flock of mallards.
- 1893 September 27, The Bazaar, the Exchange and Mart, London, page 800, column 3:
- "Oh, I, well, I too fell into error, for I frittered away my morning in stalking yonder exaltation of larks, thinking they were dunlin, and in doing so disturbed the only sord of mallards on the whole marsh."
Etymology 2 edit
See sward.
Noun edit
sord (plural sords)
- Obsolete form of sward.
- 1667, John Milton, “Book XI”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], […], →OCLC; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, →OCLC:
- grassy Sord
See also edit
- con sord (etymologically unrelated)
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Alternative forms edit
- sort (alternative medieval spelling)
Etymology edit
Inherited from Old Catalan sord, from Latin surdus, from Proto-Indo-European *swer- (“ringing, whistling”).
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Adjective edit
sord (feminine sorda, masculine plural sords, feminine plural sordes)
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References edit
- “sord” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
- “sord”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2024
- “sord” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
- “sord” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.