sors

sors

1. plural of sor

• RSOs, Ross, SROs, ross

sors

1. plural of sor

• IPA^(key): /sɔʁ/

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sors

1. inflection of sortir:
   1. first/second-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative

Borrowed from Latin sors (“fate”).

• IPA^(key): [ˈʃorʃ]
• Hyphenation: sors
• Rhymes: -orʃ

sors (plural sorsok)

1. fate

• sors in Bárczi, Géza and László Országh. A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára (‘The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language’, abbr.: ÉrtSz.). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: →ISBN

From Proto-Italic *sortis, from Proto-Indo-European *ser- (“to bind”). Cognate with serō, seriēs, sermō.

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /sors/, [s̠ɔrs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /sors/, [sɔrs]

sors f (genitive sortis); third declension

1. anything used to determine chances, lot
2. a casting or drawing of lots, a decision by lot, by fate, or by allotment or share
   • 29 BCE – 19 BCE, Virgil, Aeneid 2.201:

     “Lāocoōn, ductus Neptūnō sorte sacerdōs [...].”

     “Laocoön, chosen by lot [to be] the priest for Neptune [...].” – Aeneas
     (See: sortition.)

3. oracular response (since many were written on lots)
4. fate, destiny, chance, fortune, condition

   Synonyms: fātum, fortūna, necessitās

   • 8 CE, Ovid, Fasti 3.379–380:

     tum, memor imperiī sortem cōnsistere in illō,
     cōnsilium multae calliditātis init.

     Then, mindful that imperial destiny depends upon it, he initiates an ingenious plan.

5. share, part
6. capital bearing interest, principal
7. rank, class, order

   Synonyms: ōrdō, classis, gradus

8. (Medieval Latin) partitioning of an inheritance by lot
9. (Medieval Latin) share in an estate or inheritance, especially one divided by lot
10. (Medieval Latin) estate, holding
11. (Medieval Latin, law) lands and easements attached to a property
12. (Medieval Latin) realm

Third-declension noun (i-stem, ablative singular in -e or occasionally -ī).

• cōnsors
• dissors
• exsors
• sortiārius
• sortifex
• sortior

• “sors”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “sors”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• sors 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)
• sors in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎, London: Macmillan and Co.
  • to be contented: rebus suis, sorte sua contentum esse
    
  • the province of Syria has fallen to some one's lot: alicui Syria (sorte) obvēnit, obtigit
    
• Niermeyer, Jan Frederik (1976) “sors”, in Mediae Latinitatis Lexicon Minus, Leiden, Boston: E. J. Brill, page 981

sors

1. Alternative form of sours

sors

1. indefinite genitive plural of so