sorte

sorte is a Latin form of sors, meaning “lot, chance; fate, destiny; oracle”. It is the ablative singular feminine noun.

Found 260 times in the Latin texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Caesar, De Bello Civili 1.30: … set, protinus in Africam transducere exercitum iubet. Sardiniam obtinebat M. Cotta, Siciliam M. Cato; Africam sorte Tubero obtinere debebat. Caralitani, simul ad se Valerium mitti audierunt, nondum profecto ex Italia sua spon …

Apuleius, Metamorphoses 9.8: … tionisque crebris mercedibus suffarcinati purissimi illi sacerdotes novum quaestus genus sibi comminiscuntur. Sorte unica pro casibus pluribus enotata consulentes de rebus variis plurimos ad hunc modum cavillantur. Sors haec …

All forms of sors (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.