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Learn Hardcore Latin: sordidus - dirty

Hardcore Latin
/Lesson 18
/sordidus

sordidus

Word

sordidus

Meaning

dirty

Part of speech

adjective, adverb

Pronunciation

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Lesson

Usages of sordidus

Paries cubiculi albus est, sed paries atrii iam sordidus est.

The wall of the bedroom is white, but the wall of the atrium is now dirty.

Serva pannum humidum capit et parietem sordidum tergit.

The female servant takes a wet cloth and wipes the dirty wall.

Mater puerum monet ut manus sordidas ante ientaculum lavet.

Mother warns the boy to wash his dirty hands before breakfast.

Paries atrii iam non sordidus est, sed mundus.

The wall of the atrium is now not dirty, but clean.

Dum serva atrium verrit, pulvis non surgit, sed scopa ipsa luto sordida fit.

While the female servant sweeps the atrium, dust does not rise, but the broom itself becomes dirty with mud.

Puella tunicam sordidam detrahit et tunicam puram induit antequam ad scholam eat.

The girl takes off the dirty tunic and puts on a clean tunic before she goes to school.

Puella vestimentum novum induit, quia tunica vetus iam sordida est.

The girl puts on a new garment, because the old tunic is now dirty.

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