As nouns the difference between sortes and sordes
is that sortes is divination, or the seeking of guidance, by chance selection of a passage in the bible or another text regarded as authoritative while sordes is deposits of dirt or bacteria on the body, discharges; bacterial deposits on the teeth or tongue or sordes can be a small pterosaur that lived in the late jurassic period of the mesozoic era.
sortes
English
Noun
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en-plural noun)
divination, or the seeking of guidance, by chance selection of a passage in the Bible or another text regarded as authoritative.
Derived terms
* sortes Biblicae
* sortes Homericae
* sortes Virgilianae
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sordes
Etymology 1
From (etyl) sordes, related to sordere .
Noun
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en-plural noun)
Deposits of dirt or bacteria on the body, discharges; bacterial deposits on the teeth or tongue.
* 1973', Fresh sheets, sponging, a spoonful of animal soup, '''sordes removed from his cracked lips, black in the candlelight. — Patrick O'Brian, ''HMS Surprise
Etymology 2
Noun
sordes singular
a small pterosaur that lived in the late Jurassic Period of the Mesozoic era
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