# soro
## English
### Noun

soro (plural soros)
* (slang, rare) Clipping of sorority.
** 1997 February 2, john lowe, “i am *not* a frat boy wannabe!”, in alt.punk‎ (Usenet):soro girls won't talk to me, even when they're drunk.
** 1998 September 24, UTOYPIA, “Special Event Security in Los Angeles”, in alt.security‎ (Usenet):We work frat/soro parties at several major universities such as USC and UCLA, clubs, concerts, raves, parties, weddings, movie premiers, any special events and even the MTV Music Awards.
** 1999 November 26, lamb...@my-deja.com, “why frats are BUYING friends.”, in alt.college.sororities‎ (Usenet):So for all the new comers, you should NOT bother to spend hefty amount of money to join a soro or a frat!
** 2005 January 9, balkr...@yahoo.com, “studio apt for sublease”, in usc.forsale‎ (Usenet):Surrounded by frats and soros. and USC housing. So one of the safest area to live.
** 2013 April 22, “Michael Shannon with a dramatic reading of the sorority letter - this is spectacular.”, in Reddit‎, r/videos, archived from the original on 10 December 2023:Meaning that if a frat's sister soro is the fat soro on campus, the frat becomes the fat frat. They identify themselves, and get perspective rush candidates by how good their partner frat/soro is, because put simply, not alot of frat guys want to hook up with ugly girls. So the frats with the best sister soro will usually have people lining up to rush them, meaning they have the "cream of the crop".

## 'Are'are
### Noun

soro
* salt

#### Synonyms

* aasi
* maimami'a

### References

* Kateřina Naitoro, A Sketch Grammar of 'Are'are: The Sound System and Morpho-Syntax (2013)

## Ashkun
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /soˈɾo/

### Noun

soro (Sanu)
* fall

## Fijian
### Noun

soro
* atonement
* atonement offering (something sacrificed for atonement to occur)

## Galician
### Etymology

Either from a pre-Roman substrate of Iberia, or from Latin serum (“whey”).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈsoɾo̝̝/

### Noun

soro m (plural soros)
* whey
* serum
* (medicine) a solution of water, salt and sugar used to prevent dehydration from diarrhea or vomiting

### References

* Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “soro”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
* Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, editors (2003–2018), “soro”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
* Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “soro”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN

## Guaraní
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /soˈɾo/

### Verb

soro
* (intransitive) to break

#### Conjugation
## Italian
### Etymology

From New Latin sōrus, from Ancient Greek σωρός (sōrós, “heap”).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈsɔ.ro/
* Rhymes: -ɔro
* Hyphenation: sò‧ro

### Noun

soro m (plural sori)
* (botany) sorus

### Anagrams

* orso, roso

## Japanese
### Romanization

soro
* Rōmaji transcription of そろ

## Kaxuyana
### Etymology

From Proto-Cariban *(tj)ôrô (“this”).

### Adverb

soro
* today

### References

* Spike Gildea, On Reconstructing Grammar: Comparative Cariban Morphosyntax

## Nupe
### Etymology

From Hausa sōrō, compare Yoruba sóró (“minaret”).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /sō.ɾō/

### Noun

soro (plural sorozhì)
* A rectangular or cylindrical building of clay construction, reinforced and roofed with split gbàci beams.

## Portuguese
### Etymology 1

Inherited from Vulgar Latin *sorum, from Latin serum. Doublet of sérum.

#### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈso.ɾu/
* Hyphenation: so‧ro

#### Noun

soro m (plural soros)
* serum (blood plasma from which the clotting proteins have been removed)
* whey (liquid remaining after milk has been curdled)
* (medicine) a solution of water, salt and sugar used to prevent dehydration from diarrhoea or vomiting

##### Related terms

* sérico
* sero-

### Etymology 2

Learned borrowing from Ancient Greek σωρός (sōrós, “heap”).

#### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈsɔ.ɾu/
* Hyphenation: so‧ro

#### Noun

soro m (plural soros)
* (botany) sorus (cluster of sporangia)

## Spanish
### Etymology

Borrowed from New Latin sōrus, from Ancient Greek σωρός (sōrós, “heap”).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈsoɾo/ [ˈso.ɾo]
* Rhymes: -oɾo
* Syllabification: so‧ro

### Noun

soro m (plural soros)
* (botany) sorus

### Further reading

* “soro”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10

## Sranan Tongo
### Etymology

From English sore.

### Noun

soro
* sore
* wound

### Verb

soro
* to hurt, to be sore

## Tagalog
### Etymology 1

Borrowed from Spanish zorro.

#### Pronunciation

* (Standard Tagalog) IPA: /ˈsoɾo/ [ˈsoː.ɾo]
* Rhymes: -oɾo
* Syllabification: so‧ro

#### Noun

soro (feminine sora, Baybayin spelling ᜐᜓᜇᜓ)
* fox
    Synonym: tumanggong

### Etymology 2

See suro.

#### Noun

sorò (Baybayin spelling ᜐᜓᜇᜓ)
* Obsolete form of suro.

### Further reading

* “soro”, in Pambansang Diksiyonaryo | Diksiyonaryo.ph, Manila, 2018

### Anagrams

* oros

## Ternate
### Etymology 1
#### Pronunciation

* IPA: [ˈso.ɾo]

#### Verb

soro
* (intransitive) to fly

##### Conjugation
### Etymology 2
#### Pronunciation

* IPA: [ˈso.ɾo]

#### Verb

soro
* (transitive) to deny

### References

* Rika Hayami-Allen (2001) A descriptive study of the language of Ternate, the northern Moluccas, Indonesia, University of Pittsburgh