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Sortes vs Sordes - What's the difference?

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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

(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

    English

    (wikipedia sordes)

    Etymology 1

    From (etyl) sordes, related to sordere .

    Noun

    (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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