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sordibus

sordibus is a Latin form of sordes, meaning “dirt, filth; meanness; mourning clothes”. It is the ablative plural feminine noun.

Found 58 times in the Latin texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Cicero, In C. Verrem 2.1.152: … que omnibus spoliatus venit in iudicium, si nihil aliud, saltem ut eum cuius opera ipse multos annos esset in sordibus paulo tamen obsoletius vestitum videret. itaque tibi, Hortensi, non illius aetas, sed causa, non vestitus, se …

All forms of sordes (declension table)

Source: Socratos (socratos.org), a free reader for Ancient Greek and Latin. Grammar from the Perseus Treebank and Morpheus; dictionary entries from Lewis & Short, A Latin Dictionary (Perseus Digital Library, CC BY-SA). Counts are from the texts on Socratos.