Oxford Latin Dictionary
Glare, Oxford Latin Dictionary, 1794.soror on page 1794
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soror sister
soror is a Latin Noun that primarily means sister.
Definitions for soror
Wheelock's Latin
Noun
- 1
sister
English derivatives:
sororal sororate sororicide sorority
Oxford Latin Dictionary
Noun
- 1
A sister. (b) (applied loosely to a half-sister; also to a sister-in-law). (c) (applied to a first cousin). (d) a (female) companion; (also applied euphem. to a mistress.).
- 2
(spec., of various groups of mythological sisters): (a) (the Fates). (b) (the Muses). (c) (the Furies). (d) (the Nereids). (e.) (the Danaids). (f) (the sister of Phaeton, transformed into poplars). (g) (the Hesperides). (h) (Procne and Philomela).
- 3
(transf., of a concr. obj. closely related or sim to another).
Sentences with soror
Latin to English
Ast ego quae divum incēdō rēgīna Iouisque et soror et conjunx ūnā cum gente tot annōs bella gerō.Compare Yet I, who walk about as queen of the gods, wife and sister of Jove, wage war on a whole race, for so many years.
Cui Pudor, et Iustitiae soror, incorrupta Fides, nudaque, Veritas, quando ullum inveniet parem?Compare When shall Modesty find again his peer, and stainless Faith, own sister to Justice, and naked Truth?
Fortunatos et ille deos qui novit agrestis Panaque Silvanumque senem Nymphasque sorores.Compare But fortunate too the man who is friends with the country gods - Pan and old Silvanus and the sisterhood of nymphs.
Ibi casus rex sum Ptolemaeus, puer aetam magnus copiae cum soror Cleopatra bellum gerens.Compare There by chance was king Ptolemy, a boy in age, carrying on war with a large force against his sister Cleopatra.
Si Latona dea puto, Hecata non puto, qui mater Asteria sum, Latona soror?Compare If you consider Latona a goddess, do you not consider Hecate one, who is the daughter of Asteria, Latona's sister?
Declension table for soror
Cactus2000
| Singular | Plural | |
| Nom. | soror | sorōrēs |
| Gen. | sorōris | sorōrum |
| Dat. | sorōrī | sorōribus |
| Acc. | sorōrem | sorōrēs |
| Abl. | sorōre | sorōribus |
Data sources
Notes
- Definitions
- Frederick M. Wheelock, Wheelock's Latin, 6th ed., rev. Richard A. LaFleur (New York, NY: HarperCollins Publishers, 2005): 51.
- P. G. W. Glare, Oxford Latin Dictionary, Vols. 1-8 (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1982): 1794.
- Word frequencies
- Christopher Francese, "Latin Core Vocabulary," Dickinson College Commentaries, last modified 2014, http://dcc.dickinson.edu.
- Paul B. Diederich, The Frequency of Latin Words and Their Endings, PhD diss., (Columbia University, 1939).
- Louis Delatte, Suzanne Govaerts, Joseph Denooz, and Etienne Evrard, Dictionnaire fréquentiel et index inverse de la langue latine [Frequency Dictionary and Inverse Index of the Latin Language] (Liège, Belgium: Laboratoire d'analyse statistique des langues anciennes de l'Université de Liège [L.A.S.L.A.], 1981): 124.
Bibliography
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Diederich, Paul B. The Frequency of Latin Words and Their Endings. PhD diss., Columbia University, 1939.
Francese, Christopher. "Latin Core Vocabulary." Dickinson College Commentaries. Last modified 2014. http://dcc.dickinson.edu/latin-vocabulary-list.
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Citation
Chicago (17th ed.)
Allo Contributors. "soror, sorōris (n.) - Latin Word Definition." Allo Latin Dictionary. Last modified . Accessed November 22, 2024. http://ancientlanguages.org/latin/dictionary/soror-sororis.
Entry created on . Last updated on .
Wheelock's Latin
Wheelock, Wheelock's Latin, 51.soror, sorōris on page 51
