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A written form of a reduction of sort of.

sorta (not comparable)

  1. (informal) Contraction of sort of.
    Synonyms: kinda, kinda sorta, sorta kinda

    The portraits on the wall aren’t that good, but they’re just sorta cool to have around.

    • 1912 September, Charles Alden Seltzer, “Love’s International”, in The Outing Magazine: Sport, Adventure, Travel, Fiction, volume LX, number 6, New York, N.Y.; Chicago, Ill.: Outing Publishing Company, →OCLC, page 680, column 1:

      'Webb,' he says sorta sorrowful like, 'it looks like a howlin' shame to have a bang-up American girl hooked up to a money-grubbin' member of the British nobility. It don't in no way fit in with my ideas of the speerut of American independence!'

    • 1993 July, William R. Scott, “Sort of a Hero”, in Scott Stuckey, editor, Boys’ Life, volume LXXXIII, number 7, Irving, Tex.: Boy Scouts of America, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 34, column 2:

      When Tommy's folks heard about it they were angry with him, and with Chuck for using him to play such a mean trick on Vern. In fact the whole thing sorta backfired on old Chuck—and on me and Pete too. Instead of laughing about it, most people thought it was pretty crummy.

contraction of sort of — see sort of

sorta (plural sortsa)

  1. (informal) Sort of.

    There’s gotta be some sorta explanation.

    • 2001, Lawrence A. Wenzel, The Sandcastle at High Tide, page 97:

      He glanced at her then back at me. "What sorta research?" / "Well, war correspondent might not be too far off," I said.

sorta f (genitive singular sortu, nominative plural sortur)

  1. black dye
  • sortulyng (“common bearberry, Arctostaphylos uva-ursi”)

From a Vulgar Latin *sorta, itself from Latin sortem,[1] possibly through French sorte.[2]

sorta f (plural sorte)

  1. sort, type, kind

sorta

  1. inflection of sortire:
    1. first/second/third-person singular present subjunctive
    2. third-person singular imperative

sorta f sg

  1. feminine singular of sorto
  1. ^ sorta in garzantilinguistica.it – Garzanti Linguistica, De Agostini Scuola Spa
  2. ^ “sorta”, in Grande dizionario della lingua italiana, volume 19 sil–sque, UTET, 1998, page 506abcf.
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 sorta in Luciano Canepari, Dizionario di Pronuncia Italiana (DiPI)

Borrowed from German sortieren.

a sorta (third-person singular present sortează, past participle sortat) 1st conjugation

  1. to sort

Borrowed from German Sorte and/or Italian sorta; all eventually from Latin sors. See English sort for more.

sȏrta f (Cyrillic spelling со̑рта)

  1. sort, kind

From Proto-Finnic *sortadak.

sorta

  1. to bring down, to knock down
  2. to cut down, to chop down, to fell
  3. to drop (by accident)
Inflection of sorta (inflection type 8/püta)
1st infinitive sorta
present indic. sordab
past indic. sordi
present
indicative 		past
indicative 		imperative
1st singular sordan sordin —
2nd singular sordad sordid sorda
3rd singular sordab sordi sorkha
1st plural sordam sordim sorkam
2nd plural sordat sordit sorkat
3rd plural sortas
sordaba 		sordiba sorkha
sing. conneg.1 sorda sordand sorda
plur. conneg. sorkoi sornugoi sorkoi
present
conditional 		past
conditional 		potential
1st singular sordaižin sornuižin sornen
2nd singular sordaižid sornuižid sorned
3rd singular sordaiži sornuiži sorneb
1st plural sordaižim sornuižim sornem
2nd plural sordaižit sornuižit sornet
3rd plural sordaižiba sornuižiba sorneba
connegative sordaiži sornuiži sorne
non-finite forms
1st infinitive sorta
2nd infinitive 3rd infinitive
inessive sortes inessive sormas
instructive sorten illative sormaha
participles elative sormaspäi
present active sordai adessive sormal
past active sornu abessive sormat
past passive sortud
1 In imperative: used only in the second-person singular. The plural form is used with other persons.