Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

soroche

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: soroche
IPA

12

Scrabble Score

7

Letters

1

Syllables

6

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

altitude sickness, mountain sickness

Obsolete; Uncountable

Example Sentences

"Men, horses, and mules occasionally perish under soroche while on the Andes; and yet some persons who never were 3,000 feet above the level of the ocean, or if so, have only been sitting in a balloon in a state of muscular quiescence, have ridiculed statements of facts such as those here noted."
"I should treat soroche on the plainest principles of hydraulics."
"The soroche attacks different persons in different ways."

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish soroche.

Origin

Source language: Spanish

Word Breakdown

Root: soroche

Usage

Inflected Forms

sorochi (alternative) sorocho (alternative)

Questions

What does soroche mean?: altitude sickness, mountain sickness
Where does soroche come from?: It is traced to Spanish.

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