SORT Copy link • SORT 1. s. Kind, genus [Vid: KIND]. Sometimes “a sort of” may be expressed by quidam; e.g., non perspicitis aleam quandam esse in hostiis deligendis? (Cic.) or by omnis; e.g., omnes aegritudines, metus, perturbationes: omnia pericula: sometimes by nota (PROP. a mark put on anything); hence; e.g., vinum bonae, malae notae (of a good or bad sort); quaecunque vini nota (wine of every sort); vini nota optima (the best sort of wine; Col.); cujuscunque notae caseus (cheese of every sort, Col.); secundae notae mel (of the second sort, Col.). Manner, Vid: 2. v. in genera digerere (after Cic., De Or., 1, 42, 190): digerere: in ordinem digerere; secernere, rejicere (to reject in sorting).