sorte (pluralsortes)
- Obsolete form ofsort.
- 1533, R. Saltwood:
- As plesaunt to the ere as the blacke sanctus
Of a sadsorte vpon a mery pyn.
- store,torse,resto,tores,toers,estro-,roset,Soter,Resto,rotes,estro,Oster
sorte
- definite ofsort
- plural ofsort
sorte
- partitiveplural ofsort
Inherited fromOld Frenchsorte, borrowed fromLatinsortem. Doublet of the inheritedsort.
sorte f (pluralsortes)
- sort,kind,type
- way,manner
sorte
- first/third-personsingularpresentsubjunctive ofsortir
FromOld Galician-Portuguesesorte (13th century,Cantigas de Santa Maria), fromLatinsors, sortem(“lot; fate”). Cognate withPortuguesesorte andSpanishsuerte.
sorte f (pluralsortes)
- fate,fortune
- luck
- share,allotment
- Synonyms:adra,lote,mera,partilla,quiñón
- lot(a distinct portion or plot of rural land, usually smaller than a field)
- Synonym:mera
- Seoane, Ernesto Xosé González;Granja, María Álvarez de la;Agrelo, Ana Isabel Boullón (2006–2022), “sorte”, inDicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval [Dictionary of dictionaries of Medieval Galician] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela:Instituto da Lingua Galega
- Barreiro, Xavier Varela; Guinovart, Xavier Gómez (2006–2018), “sorte”, inCorpus Xelmírez: corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval [Corpus Xelmírez: linguistic corpus of Medieval Galicia] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela:Instituto da Lingua Galega
- Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “sorte”, inDicionario 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), “sorte”, inTesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela:Instituto da Lingua Galega
- Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “sorte”, inTesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela:Instituto da Lingua Galega,→ISSN
FromLatinsortem, fromProto-Italic*sortis, from theProto-Indo-European root*ser-(“to sort, lineup”).
sorte f (pluralsorti)
- fate
- Synonym:destino
See the etymology of the correspondinglemma form.
sorte f pl
- plural ofsorta
See the etymology of the correspondinglemma form.
sorte
- third-personsingularpresentindicative ofsortire
See the etymology of the correspondinglemma form.
sorte f pl
- feminineplural ofsorto
sorte
- ablativesingular ofsors
FromOld Frenchsorte, borrowed fromLatinsors, sortem. Cf.sort.
sorte f (pluralsortes)
- (Guernsey)sort
sorte
- definitesingular ofsort
- plural ofsort
Borrowed fromLatinsors, sortem. Compare the inheritedsort.
sorteoblique singular, f (oblique pluralsortes,nominative singularsorte,nominative pluralsortes)
- sort;type
FromOld Galician-Portuguesesorte, fromLatinsortem, fromProto-Italic*sortis, fromProto-Indo-European*ser-(“to bind”). CompareSpanishsuerte.
sorte f (pluralsortes)
- (dated)sort
- fate
- luck
FromMiddle Englishsorte, fromOld Frenchsorte.
sorte
- obsolete form ofsort
