sord

• IPA^(key): /sɔː(ɹ)d/
• Rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)d
• Homophone: sword

From Middle English sowrde, from Old French sourdre (“to rise”), that is, "to rise in flight, as a flock of birds", from Latin surgō. Related to surge.

sord (plural sords)

1. (rare, obsolete) A flock of mallards.
   • 1893 September 27, The Bazaar, the Exchange and Mart, London, page 800, column 3:

     "Oh, I, well, I too fell into error, for I frittered away my morning in stalking yonder exaltation of larks, thinking they were dunlin, and in doing so disturbed the only sord of mallards on the whole marsh."

See sward.

sord (plural sords)

1. Obsolete form of sward.
   • 1667, John Milton, “Book XI”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], […], →OCLC; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, →OCLC:

     grassy Sord

• con sord (etymologically unrelated)

• rods, Dors., RDOs, Dors, ords, OSRD, ODRs, dors, dors-, DROs

• sort (alternative medieval spelling)

Inherited from Old Catalan sord, from Latin surdus, from Proto-Indo-European *swer- (“ringing, whistling”).

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic) [ˈsort]
• IPA^(key): (Valencian) [ˈsoɾt]
• Hyphenation: sord

sord (feminine sorda, masculine plural sords, feminine plural sordes)

1. deaf

• sordament

• ensordir
• eixordar

• “sord” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “sord”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2024
• “sord” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “sord” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.