sol

English

Etymology 1

From Middle English sol (“fifth degree or note of Guido of Arezzo’s hexachordal scales”), the first syllable of Latin solve (“to remove; to get rid of”), the first word of the fifth line, third verse (“Solve polluti, labii reatum”, that is, “Clean the guilt from our stained lips”) of the famed medieval hymn Ut queant laxis, which solfège was based on because its lines started on each note of the scale successively.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /sɒl/, /səʊl/

• Audio (Southern England)

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• (General American) enPR: sōl, IPA^(key): /sɔl/, /sɑl/, /soʊl/
• Homophones: soul, sole (Canada, US)
• Rhymes: -ɒl, -əʊl

Noun

sol (uncountable)

2. (music)
   1. In a movable-do or tonic sol-fa system: the fifth step in a scale, preceded by fa and followed by la.
      • c. 1590–1592 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Taming of the Shrew”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies  (First Folio), London: Isaac Iaggard, and Ed Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, , page 218, column 2:

        D ſol re, one Cliffe, two notes haue I, / Ela mi, ſhow pitty or I die.

      • Romeo and Juliet.  (First Quarto), London: Iohn Danter, published 1597, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene v]:

        Ser[vant, i.e., Peter]. Alack alack what ſhal I doe, come Fidlers play me ſome mery dumpe. / I. [First musician]. A ſir, this is no time to play. / […] / Ser. Then will I giue it you, and ſoundly to. / I. What will you giue vs? / Ser. The fidler, Ile re you, Ile fa you, Ile ſol you. / I. If you re vs and fa vs, we will note you.

        A nonce use as a verb.]

   2. In a fixed-do system: the musical note G.

Alternative forms

• so
• soh

Translations

Etymology 2

From Old French sol (“French coin”) (modern French sou), from Latin solidum, the accusative singular of solidus (“Roman gold coin; (adjective) solid”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *solh₂- (“whole”). Doublet of sold, soldo, solidum, and sou.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /sɒl/

• Audio (Southern England)

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• (General American) IPA^(key): /sɔl/, /sɑl/
• Rhymes: -ɒl

Noun

sol (plural sols)

1. (historical) An old coin from France and some other countries worth 12 deniers.
   • 1605 (first performance), Beniamin Ionson [i.e., Ben Jonson], “Volpone, or The Foxe. A Comœdie. ”, in The Workes of Beniamin Ionson (First Folio), London: Will Stansby, published 1616, →OCLC, Act IV, scene v, pages 502–503:

     This fellow, For ſix ſols more, would pleade againſt his Maker.

   • 1611, Thomas Coryate [i.e., Thomas Coryat], “My Obseruations of the Most Glorious, Peerelesse, and Mayden Citie of Venice: ”, in Coryats Crudities Hastily Gobled Vp in Five Moneths Trauells , London: W S[tansby for the author], →OCLC, page 285, lines 18–24:

     Moſt of their owne coines that I ſaw were theſe. In gold but one, which is their chiquiney: This piece doth much vary in the value. For ſometimes it is high, ſometimes low. When I was there, a chiquiney was worth eleuen liuers, and twelue ſols. Which counteruaileth eight ſhillings and eight pence halfe penny of our money.

   • 1748, [Tobias Smollett], chapter XLIV, in The Adventures of Roderick Random. , volume II, London: [William Strahan] for J. Osborn , →OCLC, page 69:

     It was the fate of the grenadier company, to which I now belonged, to lie at Rheims, where I found myſelf in the utmoſt want of every thing: My pay, which amounted to five ſols a day, far from ſupplying me with neceſſaries; being ſcarce ſufficient to procure a wretched ſubſiſtance, to keep ſoul and body together; […]

Related terms

• solid
• solidus

Translations

Etymology 3

From Spanish sol (“sun”), from Latin sōl (“sun”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *sóh₂wl̥ (“sun”). Doublet of Sol and sol, directly from the Latin.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /sɒl/

• Audio (Southern England)

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• (General American) IPA^(key): /sɔl/, /sɑl/
• Rhymes: -ɒl

Noun

sol (plural sols or soles)

1. (historical) A former Spanish-American silver coin.
   • 1763, [Antoine-Simon] Le Page du Pratz, “Of the Commerce that Is, and May Be, Carried Out in Louisiana. ”, in , transl., The History of Louisiana, or of the Western Parts of Virginia and Carolina: , volume I, London: T. Becket and P. A. De Hondt , →OCLC, page 336:

     The Tobacco of this colony is ſo excellent, that if the commerce thereof was free, it would ſell for one hundred ſols and ſix livres the pound, ſo fine and delicate is its juice and flavour.

2. In full nuevo sol or new sol: the main currency unit of Peru which replaced the inti in 1991; also, a coin of this value.

Related terms

• Sun, sun

Translations

Etymology 4

From Latin sōl (“sun”); see further at etymology 3. Doublet of sol from Spanish.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /sɒl/

• Audio (Southern England)

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• (General American) IPA^(key): /sɔl/, /sɑl/
• Rhymes: -ɒl

Noun

sol (plural sols)

2. (astronomy) A solar day on the planet Mars (equivalent to 24 hours, 39 minutes, 35 seconds).
   • 2011, Andy Weir, chapter 3, in The Martian, New York, N.Y.: Broadway Books, published 2014, →ISBN, page 18:

     I need to create calories. And I need enough to last the 1387 sols until Ares 4 arrives. If I don't get rescued by Ares 4, I'm dead anyway. A sol is 39 minutes longer than a day, so it works out to be 1425 days. That's my target: 1425 days of food.

   • 2014, Gerard ’t Hooft, Stefan Vandoren, “10⁵ Seconds = 100,000 Seconds = 1.16 days = 27.78 Hours”, in Saskia A. Eisberg-’t Hooft, transl., Time in Powers of Ten: Natural Phenomena and Their Timescales, Singapore: World Scientific Publishing Co., →ISBN, part I, page 25:

     88,775 seconds = 24 hours, 39 minutes and 35 seconds / The duration of a synodic day on Mars, a ‘sol’

Derived terms

• tosol
• yestersol

Related terms

• Sol
• Sun, sun

Translations

Etymology 5

Sense 1 (“type of colloid”) is derived from -sol (in words like alcosol and hydrosol), an abbreviation of solution.

Sense 2 (“solution to an objection”) is derived directly from solution.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /sɒl/

• Audio (Southern England)

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• (General American) IPA^(key): /sɔl/, /sɑl/
• Rhymes: -ɒl

Noun

sol (plural sols)

1. (physical chemistry) A type of colloid in which a solid is dispersed in a liquid.
2. (obsolete) A solution to an objection (or "ob"), for example, in controversial divinity.
   • 1624, Democritus Junior [pseudonym; Robert Burton], “Symptomes Generall, Loue to Their Owne Sect, Hate of All Other Religions, ”, in The Anatomy of Melancholy: , 2nd edition, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Printed by John Lichfield and James Short, for Henry Cripps, →OCLC, partition 3, section 4, member 1, subsection 3, page 524:

     [F]or that they had nothing elſe to doe, […] haue coyned a thouſand idle queſtions, nice diſtinctions, Obs and Sols, […]

   • ”, in Hudibras. The Third and Last Part, London: Simon Miller, , →OCLC, canto II, page 165:

     Where Hinderſon, and th' other Maſſes / Were ſent to Cap Texts, and Put Caſes: / To paſs for deep, and Learned Scholars, / Although but Paltry, Ob-and-Sollers: […]]

Derived terms

• aerosol
• sol-gel
• solate
• solation
• solid sol

Translations

References

Anagrams

• LOS, OLS, SLO, los'

Asturian

Etymology

From a contraction of the preposition so (“under”) + masculine singular article el (“the”).

Contraction

sol m

1. under the

Azerbaijani

Etymology

From Proto-Turkic *sōl.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key):

• Audio

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Noun

sol (definite accusative solu, plural sollar)

1. left

   küçənin sol tərəfi ― left side of the street

Declension

Antonyms

• sağ

Derived terms

• solaxay (“left-hander”)
• solçu (“leftist”)
  • solçuluq (“leftism”)

Bislama

Etymology

From English salt. Cognate with Tok Pisin sol.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈsol/
• Hyphenation: sol

Noun

sol

1. salt

Derived terms

References

• Terry Crowley (2004) Bislama Reference Grammar, Honolulu: University of Hawaiʻi press, →ISBN, page 17

Catalan

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic, Valencian)
• Homophone: sòl
• Rhymes: -ɔl

Etymology 1

Inherited from Old Catalan sol, from Latin sōlem (“sun”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *sóh₂wl̥.

Proper noun

sol m

1. (astronomy) the Sun (the center of our solar system)

Noun

sol m (plural sols)

1. (astronomy) sun
2. (numismatics) sol (a unit of currency used in Peru)

Derived terms

Related terms

• solar

Etymology 2

Noun

sol m (plural sols)

1. (music) sol (the fifth note of the diatonic scale)

Etymology 3

Borrowed from English sol.

Noun

sol m (plural sols)

1. (chemistry) sol (a colloid suspension of a solid in a liquid)

Etymology 4

Inherited from Latin sōlus (“solitary”).

Adjective

sol (feminine sola, masculine plural sols, feminine plural soles)

1. alone (by oneself, solitary)
   • 2020 March 12, María José Gómez, Time Out Barcelona‎, volume 588, page 8, column Fight!:

     M'encanta viure en parella, sortir en grup, treballar en equip. Però també m'agrada estar sola.

     I love living as a couple, going out in a group, working on a team. But I also like being alone.

2. unique

Derived terms

Related terms

• soledat

Etymology 5

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb

sol

1. third-person singular present indicative of soler

References

• “sol” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “sol” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

Chavacano

Etymology

From Spanish sol (“sun”).

Noun

sol

1. sun

Crimean Tatar

Noun

sol (accusative , plural )

1. left

Declension

Adjective

sol

1. left

References

• Mirjejev, V. A., Usejinov, S. M. (2002) Ukrajinsʹko-krymsʹkotatarsʹkyj slovnyk [Ukrainian – Crimean Tatar Dictionary]‎, Simferopol: Dolya, →ISBN

Czech

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key):

Verb

sol

1. second-person singular imperative of solit

Danish

Danish Wikipedia has an article on:

sol

Wikipedia ^da

Etymology 1

From Old Norse sól, from Proto-Germanic *sōlō (“sun”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /soːl/,
• Rhymes: -oːl

Noun

sol c (singular definite solen, plural indefinite sole)

1. sun

Inflection

Verb

sol

1. imperative of sole

Etymology 2

From Latin solūtiō (“solution”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /soːl/,

Noun

sol c (singular definite solen, plural indefinite soler)

1. (chemistry) sol (solution)

Inflection

Etymology 3

From Latin sol(ve) in the hymn for St. John the Baptist.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sɔl/,

Noun

sol n (singular definite sollet, plural indefinite soller)

1. (music) sol (note)

Inflection

Further reading

• “sol” in Den Danske Ordbog

Dutch

Etymology

From Latin sol(ve) in the hymn for St. John the Baptist all note names were taken from.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sɔl/

• Audio

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Noun

sol f (plural sollen, diminutive solletje n)

1. (music, Belgium) sol (the fifth step in the solfège scale of C, preceded by fa and followed by la)

Derived terms

• solseutel

Anagrams

• los

Franco-Provençal

Alternative forms

Etymology

Inherited from Latin sōlus. In many areas it has been replaced with the derivative solèt.

Adjective

sol m (feminine singular sola, masculine plural sols, feminine plural soles) (ORB)

1. alone

Derived terms

• solament
• solèt

References

• seul in DicoFranPro: Dictionnaire Français/Francoprovençal – on dicofranpro.llm.umontreal.ca
• sol in Lo trèsor Arpitan – on arpitan.eu

Further information

• ALF: Atlas Linguistique de la France – map 76: “toute seule” – on lig-tdcge.imag.fr
• Walther von Wartburg (1928–2002) “sōlus”, in Französisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch (in German), volumes 12: Sk–š, page 78

French

Etymology 1

From Latin solum (“soil, ground, floor”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sɔl/

• Audio (Paris)

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• Rhymes: -ɔl

Noun

sol m (plural sols)

1. soil, earth
2. ground
3. floor

Derived terms

Etymology 2

From Latin sol(ve) in the hymn for St. John the Baptist where all note names were taken from.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sɔl/

• Audio (Paris)

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• Rhymes: -ɔl

Noun

sol m (plural sol)

1. (music) sol (the fifth step (G) in the solfège scale of C, preceded by fa and followed by la)

Derived terms

• clef de sol

Etymology 3

From Spanish sol (“sun”), itself from Latin sol.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sɔl/

• Audio (Paris)

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• Rhymes: -ɔl

Noun

sol m (plural sols)

1. a Spanish-American gold or silver coin, now the main currency unit of Peru (also new sol), or a coin of this value

Etymology 4

From Latin solidus, a Roman coin. This form kept the historical spelling based on the Old French and Latin. See the main entry at sou.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /su/

Noun

sol m (plural sols)

1. (archaic) sou (the feudal era coin)

Further reading

• “sol”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé , 2012.

Galician

Etymology 1

From Old Galician-Portuguese sol, from Latin sōl (“sun”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *sóh₂wl̥.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key):

Noun

sol m (plural soles)

1. sun
2. sunlight
3. sunny side (of a place)

   quítate do sol ― go away from sunny side

4. daylight (the time between sunrise and sunset)

Antonyms

• (antonym(s) of "sunlight"): sombra
• (antonym(s) of "sunny side"): sombra
• (antonym(s) of "daylight"): noite

Derived terms

Etymology 2

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key):

Noun

sol m (plural soles)

1. (music) sol (a musical note)
2. (music) G (the musical note or key)

See also

• (musical notes) nota musical; dó, re, mi, fa, sol, la, si ^{(Category: gl:Music)}

Etymology 3

From English sol.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key):

Noun

sol m (plural soles)

1. (chemistry) sol (a colloid suspension of a solid in a liquid)

References

• “sol” in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006–2022.
• “sol” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006–2013.
• “sol” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.
• “sol” in Dicionario da Real Academia Galega, Royal Galician Academy.

Guinea-Bissau Creole

Etymology

From Portuguese sol. Cognate with Kabuverdianu sol.

Noun

sol

1. sun

Hausa

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sól/
  • (Standard Kano Hausa) IPA^(key):

Ideophone

sol

1. very white

   Synonym: fat

Indonesian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key):
• Hyphenation: sol

Etymology 1

From Dutch zool, from Middle Dutch sole, from Vulgar Latin sola ("bottom of the shoe", also "flatfish"), from Latin solea (“sandal, bottom of the shoe”), from Proto-Indo-European *swol- (“sole”). Compare to Afrikaans sool.

Noun

sol (first-person possessive solku, second-person possessive solmu, third-person possessive solnya)

1. sole (the bottom of a shoe or boot)

Derived terms

Etymology 2

From Dutch sol, the first syllable of Latin solve (“to remove, get rid of”), the first word of the fifth line, third verse (“Solve polluti, labii reatum”, that is, “Clean the guilt from our stained lips”) of the famed medieval hymn Ut queant laxis, which solfège was based on because its lines started on each note of the scale successively.

Noun

sol (first-person possessive solku, second-person possessive solmu, third-person possessive solnya)

1. (music) sol:
   1. in a movable-do or tonic sol-fa system: the fifth step in a scale, preceded by fa and followed by la.
   2. in a fixed-do system: the musical note G.

Further reading

• “sol” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Language Development and Fostering Agency — Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic Indonesia, 2016.

Interlingua

Noun

sol (plural soles)

1. sun

Adjective

sol (comparative plus sol, superlative le plus sol)

1. alone

Determiner

sol

1. (quantifying) only

Derived terms

• solmente

Italian

Etymology 1

Italian Wikipedia has an article on:

Sol (nota)

Wikipedia ^it

From the first syllable of Latin solve, from the medieval hymn Ut queant laxis, from which the names of the notes were derived.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈsɔl/
• Rhymes: -ɔl
• Hyphenation: sòl

Noun

sol m (uncountable)

1. sol (a musical note)
2. G (the musical note and key)

Etymology 2

Borrowed from English sol.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈsɔl/
• Rhymes: -ɔl
• Hyphenation: sòl

Noun

sol m (uncountable)

1. sol (a type of colloid)

Etymology 3

Borrowed from Spanish sol.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈsɔl/
• Rhymes: -ɔl
• Hyphenation: sòl

Noun

sol m (uncountable)

1. sol (a currency of Peru)
2. (historical) sol (a former Spanish-American silver coin)

Etymology 4

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈsol/
• Rhymes: -ol
• Hyphenation: sól

Noun

sol m (apocopated)

1. Apocopic form of sole

Etymology 5

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈsol/
• Rhymes: -ol
• Hyphenation: sól

Adjective

sol (apocopated)

1. Apocopic form of solo

Adverb

sol (apocopated)

1. Apocopic form of solo

Further reading

• sol¹ in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana
• sol² in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana
• sol in Luciano Canepari, Dizionario di Pronuncia Italiana (DiPI)

Kabuverdianu

Etymology

From Portuguese sol.

Verb

sol

1. sun

Ladino

Noun

sol m (Latin spelling, Hebrew spelling סול)

1. sun

Latin

Latin Wikipedia has an article on:

Sol

Wikipedia ^la

Alternative forms

• Sōl

Etymology

From Proto-Italic *s(u)wōl, from Proto-Indo-European *suh₂ṓl (*suh₂ól-s) ~ *suh₂l-és m (“the sun”), rebuilt s-stem from *súh₂el ~ *suh₂éns n (whence Sanskrit स्वर् (svar, “the sun”)), leveled from *sóh₂wl̥ ~ *suh₂éns (from *sh₂wéns via laryngeal metathesis). Alternatively from Proto-Italic *saul through an irregular change conditioned by -l, from Proto-Indo-European *séh₂ul.

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /soːl/,
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /sol/,

Noun

sōl m (genitive sōlis); third declension

1. (astronomy, often capitalized) the Sun
2. (astronomy) a sun
3. (alchemy, chemistry) gold
4. (figurative, in the plural) days, period of one's life
   • c. 84 BCE – 54 BCE, Catullus, Carmina 5.4–6:

     Soles occidere et redire possunt / nobis cum semel occidit brevis lux / nox est perpetua una dormienda

     Suns can set and rise again / but once this brief light ends / there is endless night for us to sleep.

   • c. 84 BCE – 54 BCE, Catullus, Carmina 8.3–5:

     Fulsere quondam candidi tibi soles / cum ventitabas quo puella ducebat / amata nobis quantum amabitur nulla.

     Once shined for you beautiful suns / when you went where the girl led you / loved by us like no other .

5. (mythology) See Sōl.

Declension

Third-declension noun.

Derived terms

• sōlāris

Descendants

• Balkan Romance:
  • Aromanian: soari
  • Istro-Romanian: sore
  • Megleno-Romanian: soari
  • Romanian: soare
• Dalmatian: Dalmatian: saul
• Italo-Romance:
  • Corsican: soli

    Gallurese: soli

    Sassarese: sori

  • Italian: sole
  • Neapolitan: sole

    Tarantino: sole

  • Sicilian: suli
• Insular Romance:
  • Sardinian: sole, sobi, soi, soli
• North Italian:
  • Gallo-Italic:
    • Emilian: sôl, soul, saul
    • Ligurian: sô
    • Lombard: sol, so
    • Piedmontese: sol, so
    • Romagnol: sól
  • Istriot: sul
  • Venetian: sołe
• Gallo-Romance:
  • Catalan: sol
  • Franco-Provençal: sol
  • Old Gascon: só
  • Old Occitan: sol
    • Occitan: sol (Florac, Lastic, Creuse)
• Ibero-Romance:
  • Aragonese: sol
  • Mozarabic: שול (šwl)
  • Old Leonese:
    • Asturian: sol
    • Extremaduran: sol
    • Leonese: sol
    • Mirandese: sol
  • Old Galician-Portuguese: sol
    • Fala: sol
    • Galician: sol
    • Portuguese: Sol (see there for further descendants)
  • Spanish: sol
• Vulgar Latin: *sōliculum (see there for further descendants)
• Borrowings:
  • Proto-Brythonic:
    • Cornish: Sul
    • Breton: Sul
    • Welsh: Sul

References

• AIS: Sprach- und Sachatlas Italiens und der Südschweiz – map 360: “si leva il sole” – on navigais-web.pd.istc.cnr.it
• Walther von Wartburg (1928–2002) “sōl”, in Französisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch (in German), volumes 12: Sk–š, page 23

Further reading

• "sol", in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• "sol", in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• sol in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• sol in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.

Lombard

Etymology

From Latin sōl.

Noun

sol

1. sun

Lower Sorbian

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *solь, from Proto-Indo-European *séh₂ls.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sɔl/

Noun

sol f inan

1. salt (sodium chloride)
2. (chemistry) salt (a compound of an acid and a base)

Declension

Derived terms

• solny
• solowy

Middle English

Etymology

From Latin sōl (“sun”), or perhaps from Old English sōl (“sun”), both of which hail from Proto-Indo-European *sóh₂wl̥.

Noun

sol (uncountable)

1. The brightest and warmest celestial body, considered to be a planet in the Ptolemic system; the Sun (the center of our solar system).
2. (rare) A heavy, yellow metal; gold.
   • c. 1395 Geoffrey Chaucer, The Canterbury Tales. Canon Yeoman's Prologue and Tale

     Mercurie..and brymstoon..out of Sol and Luna were ydrawe.

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

Synonyms

• (planet, metal): sonne
• (planet): Phebus

References

• “sol, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 17 June 2018.

Northern Kurdish

Noun

sol f

1. shoe

Norwegian Bokmål

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /suːl/
• (Many eastern and northern dialects) IPA^(key):

Etymology 1

From Old Norse sól, from Proto-Germanic *sōlō (“sun”).

Noun

sol f or m (definite singular sola or solen, indefinite plural soler, definite plural solene)

1. sun

   Solen skinner.

   The sun is shining.

Derived terms

Related terms

• sole (verb)

Etymology 2

Shortened form of Latin solūtiō

Noun

sol m

1. solution

Derived terms

• aerosol

Etymology 3

Verb

sol

1. imperative of sole

References

• “sol” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Norwegian Nynorsk Wikipedia has an article on:

Sola

Wikipedia ⁿⁿ

Etymology 1

From Old Norse sól, from Proto-Germanic *sōlō (“sun”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /suːl/,
• (Many eastern and northern dialects) IPA^(key):

Noun

sol f (definite singular sola, indefinite plural soler, definite plural solene)

2. sun

   Sola skin i dag.

   The sun shines today.

3. sunshine

   Det er sol ute.

   There is sunshine outside.

4. a shiningly merry girl

Derived terms

• sola, sole (verb)

Related terms

• helio-
• solar
• solarium
• solsikke

Etymology 2

From Latin solve, from the first word of the fifth line of Ut queant laxis, the medieval hymn on which solfège was based because its lines started on each note of the scale successively. Through Italian.

Alternative forms

• so (an open syllable variant)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sɔːl/
• Homophone: sål

Noun

sol m (definite singular sol-en, indefinite plural sol-ar, definite plural sol-ane)

2. (music) sol (a syllable used in solfège to represent the fifth note of a major scale)

Coordinate terms

• (scale of solfège): do, re, mi, fa, sol, la, ti, do

Etymology 3

Shortened form of Latin solūtiō.

Noun

sol m

1. solution

Derived terms

• aerosol

Etymology 4

From Spanish sol (“sun”), from Latin sōl (“sun”), but also from Latin solidus. This makes it a doublet of sold, sou, solid, and solidus, as well as Norwegian sol f (“sun”) (Etymology 1).

Noun

sol m (plural solen)

2. sol; the main Peruvian currency since 1991
   • 2009 September 4, Dag og Tid, page 11:

     Det representerer investeringar på 4600 millionar soles [om lag 9 milliardar NOK], presiserer viseministeren.

     It represents investments of 4600 million sols , says the vice minister.

4. (historical) the Peruvian currency between 1863 and 1985
   • 1981, Gregorio Condori Mamani, translated by Svanaug Steinnes, Indianarliv i Peru, Oslo: Samlaget, page 48:

     Alt dette kosta åtte soles.

     It cost eight sols in total.

Etymology 5

Noun

sol n (definite singular solet, indefinite plural sol, definite plural sola)

1. alternative spelling of sòl

References

• “sol” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
• “sol”, in Norsk Ordbok: ordbok over det norske folkemålet og det nynorske skriftmålet, Oslo: Samlaget, 1950-2016
• “sol” in Ivar Aasen (1873) Norsk Ordbog med dansk Forklaring

Anagrams

• los, lós, lòs, sol, sòl, sol-, Sol, slo

Old English

Etymology 1

From Proto-West Germanic *sōlu, from Proto-Germanic *sōlō (“sun”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /soːl/

Noun

sōl ?

1. sun
2. the Sun

Usage notes

• The exact gender is unknown. Based on cognates in related languages, it is speculated to be either feminine or neuter.

Synonyms

Etymology 2

From Proto-West Germanic *sol, from Proto-Germanic *sulą (“mud, spot”), from Proto-Indo-European *sūl- (“thick liquid”). Cognate with Old High German sol, gisol (“pool of excrement”), Middle Dutch sol (“puddle, dirt, filth”). More at soil.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sol/

Noun

sol n

1. mud, wet sand, mire
2. wallowing-place, slough, miry-place

Declension

Related terms

Descendants

• Middle English: sol, sole (merged with descendant of Old English solu)
  • English: soil, soal

Adjective

sol

1. dark, dirty, soiled

Declension

Descendants

• Middle English: sol, sole

Old French

Etymology 1

Inherited from Latin sōlus.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈsou̯l/

Alternative forms

• seul, soul, sul

Adjective

sol m (oblique and nominative feminine singular sole)

1. alone

Derived terms

• solement

Descendants

• French: seul
• → English: sole

Etymology 2

Inherited from Latin solidus.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈsɔl/

Noun

sol oblique singular, m (oblique plural sous or sox or sols, nominative singular sous or sox or sols, nominative plural sol)

1. sol (an Old French coin)

Descendants

• French: sou
• → English: sol

Old Galician-Portuguese

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈsɔl/

Etymology 1

From Latin sōlus (“alone”).

Adverb

sol

1. only; just; no more than

Derived terms

Related terms

• soo

Etymology 2

From Latin sōl, sōlem (“sun”), from Proto-Indo-European *sóh₂wl̥ (“sun”).

Noun

sol m

1. sun
   • 13th century CE, Alfonso X of Castile, Cantigas de Santa Maria, To codex, cantiga 423 (facsimile):

     Eſta primeira é de comel fez ó çeo. ⁊ á terra. ⁊ ó mar ⁊ o ſol. ⁊ á lũa. ⁊ as eſtrelas ⁊ todalas outras couſas q̇ ſon. ⁊ como fez ó ome áſa ſemellança

     This first one is (about) how He made the heaven, and the earth, and the sea, and the sun, and the moon, and the stars, and everything else that exists. And how (He) made man in His own likeness.

Descendants

• Fala: sol
• Galician: sol
• Portuguese: Sol (see there for further descendants)

Etymology 3

Verb

sol

1. third-person singular present indicative of soer

Old Occitan

Etymology

From Latin sōl.

Proper noun

sol m

1. Sun (celestial object)

Related terms

• solelh

References

• Walther von Wartburg (1928–2002) “sōl”, in Französisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch (in German), volumes 12: Sk–š, page 23

Old Swedish

Etymology

From Old Norse sól, from Proto-Germanic *sōlō (“sun”).

Noun

sōl f

1. sun

Declension

dat_sg=sōlu

Descendants

• Swedish: sol

Piedmontese

Etymology

From Latin sōl.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sul/

Noun

sol m

1. sun

Portuguese

Portuguese Wikipedia has an article on:

sol

Wikipedia ^pt

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: (Portugal) -ɔl, (Brazil) -ɔw
• Homophone: Sol
• Hyphenation: sol

Etymology 1

Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese sol, from Latin sōl (“sun”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *sóh₂wl̥.

Noun

sol m (plural sóis)

1. sun (a star, especially when seen as the centre of any single solar system)
2. sunshine (a location on which the sun's rays fall)
4. (uncountable) weather (the state of the atmosphere at a specific time and place)

   O sol frio de inverno.

   Winter's cold weather.

Derived terms

• solzinho (diminutive)
• solinho (diminutive)
• solzão (augmentative)
• solão (augmentative) (Brazil)

Descendants

• Guinea-Bissau Creole: sol
• Kabuverdianu: sol
• Papiamentu: sol

Etymology 2

From Latin solve in the hymn for St. John the Baptist.

Noun

sol m (plural sóis)

1. sol (a musical note)

Etymology 3

From English sol.

Noun

sol m (plural sóis)

1. (chemistry, physics) sol (a colloid suspension of a solid in a liquid)

Further reading

• “sol” in Dicionário Aberto based on Novo Diccionário da Língua Portuguesa de Cândido de Figueiredo, 1913

Romanian

Etymology 1

From Latin solum (“base, bottom; soil”), French sol.

Noun

sol n (plural soluri)

1. the lowest part of something; bottom, ground, base, foundation, bed
2. the floor or pavement of a room
3. ground, earth, land, soil
4. (gymnastics) an event performed on a floor-like carpeted surface

Declension

Etymology 2

From Proto-Slavic *sъlъ, compare Slovene sel.

Noun

sol m (plural soli)

1. messenger
2. envoy

Declension

Further reading

• sol in DEX online—Dicționare ale limbii române (Dictionaries of the Romanian language)

Serbo-Croatian

Alternative forms

• (Bosnian, Serbian): sȏ

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *solь, from Proto-Indo-European *séh₂l-, *séh₂ls. Compare Solyanka.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sôːl/

Noun

sȏl f (Cyrillic spelling со̑л)

1. (Croatia) salt