sord

See also: Sord

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sɔː(ɹ)d/
• Rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)d
• Homophone: sword

Etymology 1

From Middle English sowrde, from Old French sourdre (“to rise”), that is, "to rise in flight, as a flock of birds", from Latin surgō. Related to surge.

Noun

sord (plural sords)

1. (rare, obsolete) A flock of mallards.
   • 1893 September 27, The Bazaar, the Exchange and Mart, London, page 800, column 3:

     "Oh, I, well, I too fell into error, for I frittered away my morning in stalking yonder exaltation of larks, thinking they were dunlin, and in doing so disturbed the only sord of mallards on the whole marsh."

Etymology 2

See sward.

Noun

sord (plural sords)

1. Obsolete form of sward.
   • 1667, John Milton, “Book XI”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […]; [a]nd by Robert Boulter […]; [a]nd Matthias Walker, […], →OCLC; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, →OCLC:

     grassy Sord

See also

• con sord (etymologically unrelated)

Anagrams

• rods, Dors., RDOs, Dors, ords, OSRD, ODRs, dors, dors-, DROs

Catalan

Alternative forms

• sort (alternative medieval spelling)

Etymology

Inherited from Old Catalan sord, from Latin surdus, from Proto-Indo-European *swer- (“ringing, whistling”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic) [ˈsort]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [ˈsoɾt]
• Hyphenation: sord

Adjective

sord (feminine sorda, masculine plural sords, feminine plural sordes)

1. deaf

Derived terms

• sordament

Related terms

• ensordir
• eixordar

References

• “sord” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “sord”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2025
• “sord” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “sord” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.