sorex
See also: Sorex
Latin
Etymology
Uncertain; possibly related to susurrus (“whisper, rustling”), or Ancient Greek ὕραξ (húrax, “shrewmouse”).
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈsoː.reks/, [ˈs̠oːrɛks̠]
- (Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈso.reks/, [ˈsɔːreks]
- (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈso.reks/, [ˈs̠ɔrɛks̠]
- (Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈso.reks/, [ˈsɔːreks]
Noun
sōrex m (genitive sōricis); third declension
- shrew, shrewmouse
- (Late Latin, Medieval Latin) mouse
Declension
Third-declension noun.
Case | Singular | Plural |
---|---|---|
Nominative | sōrex | sōricēs |
Genitive | sōricis | sōricum |
Dative | sōricī | sōricibus |
Accusative | sōricem | sōricēs |
Ablative | sōrice | sōricibus |
Vocative | sōrex | sōricēs |
Derived terms
- sōricīnus
Descendants
- Balkan Romance:
- Aromanian: shoaric, shorãc
- Romanian: șoarece
- Dalmatian:
- surco
- Italo-Romance:
- Italian: sorcio, sorice (archaic), sorca, sorga (Marche)
- Neapolitan: sorece
- Sicilian: surci, sùrici
- North Italian:
- Friulian: surîs
- Lombard: sorec
- Romansch: schuorsch
- Venetian: sorxe
- Gallo-Romance:
- Old French: soris
- French: souris
- Michif: soorii
- Norman: souoris
- Picard:
- Northern: suris
- Southern: seris, seuris, soiris
- ⇒ Poitevin-Saintongeais: sourit
- Walloon: soris
- French: souris
- Old French: soris
- West Iberian:
- Spanish: sorce
- Insular Romance:
- Sardinian:
- Logudorese: sorighe
- Nuorese: soriche
- Sardinian:
- Translingual: Sorex
- Various derived terms meaning 'bat':
- ⇒ Dalmatian: surca pitsigaun
- ⇒ French: chauvesouris
- ⇒ Occitan: soritz pennada
- ⇒ Sardinian: sorighe pinnadulu
- ⇒ Sicilian: suriğe ulateu, sorici occelli (Calabria)
References
- “sorex”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “sorex”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- sorex 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)
- sorex in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette
- Meyer-Lübke, Wilhelm (1911), “sōrex”, in Romanisches etymologisches Wörterbuch (in German), page 610