English

Noun

squalor ‎(plural squalors)

1. Squalidness; foulness; filthiness; squalidity.
   • The heterogenous indigent multitude, everywhere wearing nearly the same aspect of squalor. -- Taylor
   • To bring this sort of squalor among the upper classes. -- Dickens
     • Dickens also used the term to refer to those living in Squalor, such as those in the slums.

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.

Derived terms

• squaleō

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
• Félix Gaffiot (1934), “squalor”, in Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette.