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sordida

sordida is a Latin form of sordidus, meaning “dirty, filthy; mean, base”. It is the nominative singular feminine adjective.

Found 95 times in the Latin texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Cicero, De Officiis 1.150: … nihil enim proficiant, nisi admodum mentiantur; nec vero est quicquam turpius vanitate. Opificesque omnes in sordida arte versantur; nec enim quicquam ingenuum habere potest officina. Minimeque artes eae probandae, quae minist …

Ovid, Amores 2.7.20: Sordida contemptae sortis amica iuvet!

All forms of sordidus (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.