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Where does “sortem” come from?

sortem (Latin) comes from Latin sors, from Latin legere, from Latin legō, from Latin lēx, from Proto-Italic lēg-, from Proto-Indo-European leǵ-s, from Proto-Indo-European leǵ- — to gather, collect, with derivatives meaning to...

sortem (Latin): accusative singular of sors

Definitions

  1. accusative singular of sors

Ancestry of “sortem”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Latinsorsanything used to determine chances, lot; a...
2Latinlegeresecond-person singular future passive indicative...
3Latinlegō—
4Latinlēx—
5Proto-Italiclēg-—
6Proto-Indo-Europeanleǵ-s—
7Proto-Indo-Europeanleǵ-to gather, collect, with derivatives meaning to...

Words derived from “sortem”

  • sort
  • sorting
  • sorter
  • sortal
  • quicksort
  • sortable
  • heapsort
  • mergesort
  • presort
  • sortation
  • sortase
  • sorteth
  • Shellsort
  • woolsorter
  • besort
  • unsortable
  • sortance
  • sortability
  • nonsortal
  • missort
  • immunosorting
  • sortably
  • immunosort
  • smoothsort
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