squalor

English

Etymology

From the Latin squalor.

Pronunciation

  • (UK) IPA(key): /ˈskwɒlə(ɹ)/
  • (US) IPA(key): /ˈskwɑlɚ/

Noun

squalor (usually uncountable, plural squalors)

  1. Squalidness; foulness; filthiness; squalidity.
    • Taylor
      The heterogenous indigent multitude, everywhere wearing nearly the same aspect of squalor.
    • Charles Dickens
      to bring this sort of squalor among the upper classes

Translations

References

  • squalor in The Century Dictionary, The Century Co., New York, 1911
  • squalor in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913

Latin

Etymology

From squālus (“dirty, unkempt”).

Pronunciation

  • (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈskʷaː.lor/, [ˈskʷaː.ɫɔr]

Noun

squālor m (genitive squālōris); third declension

  1. stiffness, roughness
  2. dirtiness, filthiness, foulness, squalor

Inflection

Third declension.

Case Singular Plural
nominative squālor squālōrēs
genitive squālōris squālōrum
dative squālōrī squālōribus
accusative squālōrem squālōrēs
ablative squālōre squālōribus
vocative squālor squālōrēs

Derived terms

References

  • squalor in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • squalor in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • squalor in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
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