squalor

From the Latin squālor.

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈskwɒlə(ɹ)/
• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈskwɑlɚ/

squalor (usually uncountable, plural squalors)

1. Filthiness and degradation, as from neglect or poverty

   Synonyms: squalidness, foulness, filthiness, squalidity

   • 2013, Car Seat Headrest, We Can't Afford (Your Depression Anymore)

     We’re living in squalor
     That’s the name of this house
     This house is called squalor by all
     There’s a door broken somewhere but I never can remember quite where.

   • 1860, Isaac Taylor, Ultimate Civilization: And other essays

     The heterogenous indigent multitude, everywhere wearing nearly the same aspect of squalor.

   • 1852, Charles Dickens, Bleak House Chapter XII

     bring this sort of squalor among the upper classes

• squalor in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
• squalor in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.

From squālus (“dirty, unkempt”).

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈskʷaː.lor/, [ˈskʷaː.ɫɔr]

squālor m (genitive squālōris); third declension

1. stiffness, roughness
2. dirtiness, filthiness, foulness, squalor

Third declension.

• squāleō

• squalor in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• squalor in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• squalor in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette