sore
Senso (English)
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- Causing pain or discomfort; painfully sensitive.
- Sensitive; tender; easily pained, grieved, or vexed; very susceptible of irritation.
- Dire; distressing.
- (informal) Feeling animosity towards someone; annoyed or angered.
- (obsolete) Criminal; wrong; evil.
Synonyms
feel tired
skin disease
sore spot
lacerated wound
sour-tasting
infected cut
Frequenza
Pronunciato come (IPA)
/sɔː/
Etimologia (English)
In summary
From Middle English sor, from Old English sār (“ache, wound”, noun) and sār (“painful, grievous”, adjective), from Proto-West Germanic *sair, from Proto-Germanic *sairaz (adjective) from Proto-Indo-European *sh₂eyro-, enlargement of *sh₂ey- (“to be fierce, afflict”). See also Dutch zeer (“sore, ache”), Danish sår (“wound”), German sehr (“very”); also Hittite [script needed] (sāwar, “anger”), Welsh hoed (“pain”), Ancient Greek αἱμωδία (haimōdía, “sensation of having teeth on edge”).
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