Flashcards: Latin Derivatives

sordid

 

1. mean, morally base. 2. dirty, filthy, squalid

 

If people in mansions and people in sordid housing projects ever truly became friends, surely the latter residences would disappear.

 

Related English words: sordidness

 

Latin root words: sordidus, sordida, sordidum - dirty; sordes, sordis, f. - dirt; sordeo, sordere - to be dirty

 

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