FromLatinsuccursus.
socors m (invariable)
- help,aid,assistance
- (in theplural)provisions,supplies
- (law)duty to rescue
socors
- help!
Fromsē(“without”) +cor(“heart as the seat of vitality”) +-s.
socors (genitivesocordis,comparativesocordior,superlativesocordissimus,adverbsocorditer);third-declension one-termination adjective
- sluggish,inert,inactive,dull(lacking in vitality or alertness)
- Synonyms:dēses,iners,sēgnis,piger,ignāvus,murcidus,languidus
- Antonyms:impiger,acer,alacer,navus,strēnuus
- (with genitive) taking nointerest in
Third-declension one-termination adjective.
- “socors” on page 1963 of theOxford Latin Dictionary (2nd ed., 2012)
- De Vaan, Michiel (2008) “cor; sē”, inEtymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill,→ISBN,page134; 549
- “socors”, inCharlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879)A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “socors”, inCharlton T. Lewis (1891)An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- socors inGaffiot, Félix (1934)Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.