soler

From sole +‎ -er.

soler (plural solers)

1. One who fits the soles to shoes.
   • 1890, John Martine, Reminiscences and Notices of Fourteen Parishes of the County of Haddington, page 88:

     He was a great mender and soler of shoes, and even could make new ones very strong and coarse.

See solar.

soler (plural solers)

1. (archaic) A loft or garret.

• solere

• Leros, lores, Roels, loser, Roles, sorel, slore, roles, Sorel, rôles, eorls, relos, Loser, lo-res, orles, Rosel, Osler

soler

1. to usually...(do something); to tend to

From sòl +‎ -er.

• IPA^(key): (Central)
• IPA^(key): (Balearic)
• IPA^(key): (Valencia)

soler m (plural solers)

1. ground floor

Inherited from Latin solēre.

• IPA^(key): (Central)
• IPA^(key): (Balearic)
• IPA^(key): (Valencia)

soler (first-person singular present solc, no first-person singular preterite, no past participle); root stress: (Central, Valencia, Balearic) /ɔ/

1. (auxiliary) to usually..., to be accustomed to..., to have the habit of...

   solen fer la passejada ― they usually go for a walk

2. (auxiliary) to frequently..., to often...

   al vespre sol fer fresca ― it usually gets cool in the evening

3. (auxiliary, in the imperfect tense) used to

   solia venir cada dijous ― he/she used to come every Thursday

• sòlit

• “soler” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “soler”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2024
• “soler” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “soler” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

soler c

1. indefinite plural of sol

soler

1. present of sole

sōler

1. first-person singular present active subjunctive of sōlor

soler

1. present of sole

soler f

1. indefinite plural of sol

Inherited from Late Latin subtelāris.

soler oblique singular, m (oblique plural solers, nominative singular solers, nominative plural soler)

1. shoe

• French: soulier

• “soler”, in DEAF: Dictionnaire Étymologique de l'Ancien Français, Heidelberg: Heidelberger Akademie der Wissenschaften, 1968-.

Inherited from Latin solēre. Compare Catalan soler, Italian solere and Portuguese soer (archaic).

• IPA^(key): /soˈleɾ/
• Rhymes: -eɾ
• Syllabification: so‧ler

soler (first-person singular present suelo, first-person singular preterite solí, past participle (rare but acceptable) solido)

1. (auxiliary) to be accustomed to doing something, to do something on a regular basis, to do something usually or often

   suele llegar tarde ― he usually arrives late

2. (auxiliary) to tend to

   Por lo general no dice nada que merezca la pena oír, así que suelo simplemente ignorarlo.

   He generally doesn't say anything worth hearing, so I usually just ignore him.

3. (imperfect) used to

   Aquí solía estar la tele.

   This is where the television used to be.

The future and conditional tend to be neglected in modern Spanish, but are acceptable.

• “soler”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10