sourd
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Alternative forms
Etymology
Inherited from Middle English sourden, from Old French sourdre, from Latin surgō, contraction of earlier subrigō. Compare source.
Verb
sourd (third-person singular simple present sourds, present participle sourding, simple past and past participle sourded)
- (obsolete) To arise, issue or emerge; to give rise.
- 1531, Thomas Elyot, “The Best Governance”, in Ernest Rhys, editor, The Boke Named the Governour […] (Everyman’s Library), London: J[oseph] M[alaby] Dent & Co; New York, N.Y.: E[dward] P[ayson] Dutton & Co, published [1907], →OCLC, 1st book, page 11:
- […] wherby at the last shuld have sourded discention amonge the people, they beinge seperately enclined towarde theyr naturall souerayne lorde […]
- 1560, “Pſalme. xxxvi”, in Matthew Parker, The whole Pſalter tranſlated into Engliſh metre […] , Iohn Daye, page 98:
- Foꝛ with the only be theſe welles of lyfe, / Of frayle men ſpring but podels of myꝛe, / From whom ſourdeth errour ⁊ croked ſtrife […]
- 1596, Tho[mas] Nashe, “Dialogus”, in Haue with You to Saffron-Walden. Or, Gabriell Harveys Hunt is Up. […], London: […] John Danter, →OCLC; republished as J[ohn] P[ayne] C[ollier], editor, Have with You to Saffron-Walden (Miscellaneous Tracts; Temp. Eliz. and Jac. I), [London: s.n., 1870], →OCLC, page 71:
- Cornead. The ſpirit of foolery out of this Archibald Rupenrope he ſhall never be able to caſt, were the nectar of his eloquence a thouſand times more ſuperabundant, inceſſant ſourding.
Anagrams
Etymology
Inherited from Middle French sourd, from Old French sourt, sord, surt, surz, from Latin surdus, from Proto-Indo-European *swer- (“ringing, whistling”).
Pronunciation
Adjective
sourd (feminine sourde, masculine plural sourds, feminine plural sourdes)
Noun
sourd m (plural sourds, feminine sourde)
Derived terms
Related terms
Verb
sourd
Further reading
- “sourd”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Etymology
From Old French sourt, sord, surt, surz, from Latin surdus.
Noun
sourd m (plural sourds)
- deaf person
Adjective
sourd m (feminine singular sourde, masculine plural sourdz, feminine plural sourdes)
Descendants
- French: sourd
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