socors

• secors

From Latin succursus.

• IPA^(key): (Central) [suˈkors]
• IPA^(key): (Balearic) [soˈkos]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [soˈkors], [soˈkos]

socors m (invariable)

1. help, aid, assistance
2. (in the plural) provisions, supplies
3. (law) duty to rescue

• socórrer

socors

1. help!

• “socors”, in Diccionari de la llengua catalana [Dictionary of the Catalan Language] (in Catalan), second edition, Institute of Catalan Studies [Catalan: Institut d'Estudis Catalans], April 2007
• “socors”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2026
• “socors” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• Alcover, Antoni Maria; Moll, Francesc de Borja (1963), “socors”, in Diccionari català-valencià-balear (in Catalan)

From sē-, so- (“without”) + cor (“heart as the seat of vitality”) + -s.

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈsɔ.kɔrs]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈsɔː.kors]

socors (genitive socordis, comparative socordior, superlative socordissimus, adverb socorditer); third-declension one-termination adjective

1. foolish, silly

   Synonyms: stultus, stolidus, ineptus, īnsipiēns, īnsulsus

2. sluggish, inert, inactive, dull (lacking in vitality or alertness)

   Synonyms: dēses, iners, sēgnis, piger, ignāvus, murcidus, languidus

   Antonyms: impiger, acer, alacer, navus, strēnuus

   • c. 310 CE – c. 394 CE, Ausonius, Caesares 78:

     Vītă sŏcors, mors foedă tĭbī, nec dignĕ Vĭtellī
     qui fieres Caesar: sic sibi fata placent.

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

3. (with genitive) taking no interest in

Third-declension one-termination adjective.

• socordia
• socorditer

• “socors” on page 1963 of the Oxford Latin Dictionary (2nd ed., 2012)
• De Vaan, Michiel (2008), “cor; sē”, in Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 134; 549
• “socors”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “socors”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “socors”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.