Word.ws English Dictionary

sorocho

sorocho is the alternative form of soroche.

Meaning of soroche

Noun

soroche (uncountable)

  1. (obsolete) altitude sickness, mountain sickness
    • 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.1860, Proceedings of the Royal Philosophical Society of Glasgow, volume 4

Questions about sorocho

What is sorocho the alternative form of?
Sorocho is the alternative form of soroche.

Words near sorocho in the dictionary

  1. sorocarp
  2. sorocarpic
  3. sorocarps
  4. soroche
  5. sorochi
  6. sorocho
  7. Soroka
  8. Sorokas
  9. Sorokhaibam
  10. Sorokin
  11. Sorokine

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: sorocho (page history and authors); soroche (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “sorocho.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/sorocho. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.