# sorta
## English
### Etymology

Written form of a reduction of sort of.

### Pronunciation

* (General American) IPA: /ˈsɔɹtə/, [ˈsɔɹɾə]
* (Received Pronunciation) IPA: /ˈsɔːtə/, [ˈsɔːtə]
* Audio (Southern England):(file)
* Rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)tə

### Adverb

sorta (not comparable)
* (informal) Contraction of sort of.
    The portraits on the wall aren't so useful, just sorta cool to have around
** 1912, Caspar Whitney, Albert Britt, Outing: Sport, Adventure, Travel, Fiction, volume 60, page 680:'Webb,' he says sorta sorrowful like, 'it looks like a howlin' shame to have a bang-up American girl hooked up to a money-grubbin' member of the British nobility. […] '
** 1993 July, “Sort of a Hero”, in Boys' Life, page 34:In fact the whole thing sorta backfired on old Chuck — and on me and Pete too. Instead of laughing about it, most people thought it was pretty crummy.

#### Synonyms

* kinda,kinda sorta, sorta kinda

#### Translations
### Contraction

sorta (plural sortsa)
* (colloquial) Sort of.
    There's gotta be some sorta explanation.
** 2001, Lawrence A. Wenzel, The Sandcastle at High Tide, page 97:He glanced at her then back at me. "What sorta research?" "Well, war correspondent might not be too far off," I said.

### Anagrams

* Astor, Astro, Roats, Sarot, Troas, artos, astro, astro-, ratos, roast, rotas, taros, tarso-

## Icelandic
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈsɔr̥ta/
* Rhymes: -ɔr̥ta

### Noun

sorta f (genitive singular sortu, nominative plural sortur)
* black dye

#### Derived terms

* sortulyng (“common bearberry, Arctostaphylos uva-ursi”)

#### Related terms

* sorti (“darkness; dark weather”)
* sortna (“to darken”)
* svartur (“black”)

## Italian
### Etymology 1

Borrowed from French sorte, from Latin sortem.

#### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈsɔr.ta/
* Rhymes: -ɔrta
* Hyphenation: sòr‧ta

#### Noun

sorta f (plural sorte)
* sort, type, kind

### Etymology 2
#### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈsɔr.ta/
* Rhymes: -ɔrta
* Hyphenation: sòr‧ta

#### Verb

sorta
* inflection of sortire:
** first/second/third-person singular present subjunctive
** third-person singular imperative

### Etymology 3
#### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈsor.ta/, /ˈsɔr.ta/
* Rhymes: -orta, -ɔrta
* Hyphenation: sór‧ta, sòr‧ta

#### Participle

sorta f sg
* feminine singular of sorto

### References

* 1 2 3 sorta in Luciano Canepari, Dizionario di Pronuncia Italiana (DiPI)

### Anagrams

* -astro, Tarso, astro, astro-, rosta, sarto, staro, starò, tarso

## Romanian
### Etymology

Borrowed from German sortieren.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /sorˈta/

### Verb

a sorta (third-person singular present sortează, past participle sortat) 1st conj.
* to sort

#### Derived terms

* sortator

### Further reading

* sorta in DEX online—Dicționare ale limbii române (Dictionaries of the Romanian language)

## Serbo-Croatian
### Etymology

Borrowed from German Sorte and/or Italian sorta; all eventually from Latin sors. See English sort for more.

### Noun

sȏrta f (Cyrillic spelling со̑рта)
* sort, kind

#### Declension
## Veps
### Etymology

From Proto-Finnic *sortadak.

### Verb

sorta
* to bring down, to knock down
* to cut down, to chop down, to fell
* to drop (by accident)

#### Inflection
### References

* Zajceva, N. G., Mullonen, M. I. (2007) “валить, ронять, сбивать, уронить”, in Uz’ venä-vepsläine vajehnik / Novyj russko-vepsskij slovarʹ [New Russian–Veps Dictionary]‎, Petrozavodsk: Periodika