sorte

sorte (plural sortes)

1. Obsolete form of sort.
   • 1533, R. Saltwood:

     As plesaunt to the ere as the blacke sanctus
     Of a sad sorte vpon a mery pyn.

• Resto, resto, roset, rotes, store, tores, torse

sorte

1. definite of sort
2. plural of sort

From Old French sorte, borrowed from Latin sors, sortem. Doublet of the inherited sort.

• IPA^(key): /sɔʁt/

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sorte f (plural sortes)

1. sort, kind, type
2. way, manner

• faire en sorte
• de sorte que

• → Central Franconian: Zoot, Zort
• → German: Sorte

sorte

1. first-person singular present subjunctive of sortir
2. third-person singular present subjunctive of sortir

• “sorte” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

• resto, rotes, store, tores, torse

From Old Galician and Old Portuguese sorte (13th century, Cantigas de Santa Maria), from Latin sors, sortem (“lot; fate”). Cognate with Portuguese sorte and Spanish suerte.

• IPA^(key): /ˈsɔɾte̝/

sorte f (plural sortes)

1. fate, fortune
2. luck
3. share, allotment

   Synonyms: lote, mera, partilla, quiñón

4. lot (a distinct portion or plot of rural land, usually smaller than a field)

   Synonym: mera

• a sortes
• sortear
• sortudo

• “sorte” in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006-2012.
• “sorte” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006-2016.
• “sorte” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006-2013.
• “sorte” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
• “sorte” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.

• IPA^(key): /ˈsɔr.te/, [ˈs̪ɔr̺t̪e]
• Rhymes: -ɔrte
• Stress: sòrte
• Hyphenation: sor‧te

From Latin sortem, accusative form of sors, from Proto-Italic *sortis, from the Proto-Indo-European root *ser- (“to sort, lineup”).

sorte f (plural sorti)

1. fate

• destino

See the etymology of the main entry.

sorte f pl

1. plural of sorta

See the etymology of the main entry.

sorte

1. third-person singular present of sortire

• IPA^(key): /ˈsor.te/, [ˈs̪or̺t̪e]
• Rhymes: -orte
• Stress: sórte
• Hyphenation: sor‧te

See the etymology of the main entry.

sorte

1. feminine plural of sorto

• estro, resto, restò, serto, terso, torse

sorte

1. ablative singular of sors

• sorte in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)

From Old French sorte, borrowed from Latin sors, sortem. Cf. sort.

sorte f (plural sortes)

1. (Guernsey) sort

sorte

1. definite singular of sort
2. plural of sort

Borrowed from Latin sors, sortem. Compare the inherited sort.

sorte f (oblique plural sortes, nominative singular sorte, nominative plural sortes)

1. sort; type

• English: sort (borrowed)
• French: sorte
• Norman: sorte

From Old Portuguese sorte, from Latin sortis accusative singular of sors, from Proto-Italic *sortis, from Proto-Indo-European *ser- (“to bind”).

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ˈsɔɾ.tɨ/
• Hyphenation: sor‧te

sorte f (plural sortes)

1. (dated) sort
2. fate
3. luck
   • 2007, J. K. Rowling, Harry Potter e as Relíquias da Morte [Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows] (Harry Potter; 7), Rio de Janeiro: Rocco, →ISBN, page 350:

     Harry mal respirava: será que a sorte, a pura sorte poderia livrá-los dessa encrenca?

     Harry was badly breathing: maybe luck, pure luck could save them from that trouble?

• sortudo