# sors
## English
### Noun

sors
* plural of sor

### Anagrams

* RSOs, Ross, SROs, ross

## Catalan
### Noun

sors
* plural of sor

## French
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /sɔʁ/
* Audio:(file)

### Verb

sors
* inflection of sortir:
** first/second-person singular present indicative
** second-person singular imperative

## Hungarian
### Etymology

Borrowed from Latin sors (“fate”).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: [ˈʃorʃ]
* Hyphenation: sors
* Rhymes: -orʃ

### Noun

sors (plural sorsok)
* fate

#### Derived terms

* sorsol
* sorstalan
* balsors
* rabszolgasors
* sorscsapás
* sorsdöntő
* sorsedzett
* sorsfordító
* sorsfordulat
* sorsforduló
* sorsharag
* sorshúzás
* sorsjáték
* sorsjegy
* sorskérdés
* sorsközösség
* sorstárs
* sorsvetés
* vaksors
* a sors fintora
* sorsot húz
* sorsot vet

### Further reading

* 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

## Latin
### Etymology

From Proto-Italic *sortis (“joining, joint”), from Proto-Indo-European *sér-ti-s, from *ser- (“to bind”). Cognate with serō (“to link together”), seriēs (“row, series”), sermō (“conversation”).

### Pronunciation

* (Classical Latin) IPA: /ˈsors/, [ˈs̠ɔrs̠]
* (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA: /ˈsors/, [ˈsɔrs]

### Noun

sors f (genitive sortis); third declension
* anything used to determine chances, lot
* 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.)
* oracular response (since many were written on lots)
* 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.
* share, part
* capital bearing interest, principal
* rank, class, order
    Synonyms: ōrdō, classis, gradus
* (Medieval Latin) partitioning of an inheritance by lot
* (Medieval Latin) share in an estate or inheritance, especially one divided by lot
* (Medieval Latin) estate, holding
* (Medieval Latin, law) lands and easements attached to a property
* (Medieval Latin) realm

#### Declension

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

#### Derived terms

* cōnsors
* dissors
* exsors
* sortiārius
* sortifex
* sortior

#### Descendants

* → Albanian: short
* Aromanian: soarti, soarte
* Asturian: suerte
* Catalan: sort
* Dalmatian: suart
* ⇒ English: sorcery
* French: sort
* Friulian: sorte
* Galician: sorte
* → Hungarian: sors
* Istriot: suorto
* Italian: sorte
* Neapolitan: ciorta
* Norman: sort
* Occitan: sòrt
* Old French: sorte
** → English: sort
** French: sorte
*** → Central Franconian: Zoot, Zort (chiefly Moselle Franconian)
*** → Danish: sort
*** → German: Sorte
*** → Russian: сорт (sort)
*** → Yiddish: סאָרט (sort)
** Norman: sorte
** → Scots: sort
* Portuguese: sorte
* Romanian: soartă, soarte
* Romansch: sort
* Sardinian: solte, solti, sorte, sorti
* Sicilian: sorti
* Spanish: suerte
* Venetan: sòrt, sorte
* ⇒ Vulgar Latin: *sorticula
** Catalan: sortilla
** Old Galician-Portuguese: sortella
*** Galician: sortella
** Old Spanish: sortija
*** Spanish: sortija

### References

* ↑ De Vaan, Michiel (2008) “sors, -rtis”, in Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 577

### Further reading

* “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

## Middle English
### Noun

sors
* Alternative form of sours

## Swedish
### Noun

sors
* indefinite genitive plural of so