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Ladino
Etymology 1
Inherited from Old Spanish suelo, from Latin solum (“floor; ground or soil”).
Noun
suelo m (Hebrew spelling סואילו)[1]
- dirt; earth; ground; soil
1982, Enrique Saporta y Beja, En torno de la torre blanca, Editions Vidas Largas, page 218:Estas moradas eran tchikas komo "un kulo de pipino", un verdadero hendek. Se kompozavan, kaje syempre, de una unika kamareta kon el suelo de tyerra pizada.- These houses were small like ‘a cucumber’s bottom’; really [a] pit. They were almost always assembled from a unique room with a flattened land’s soil.
2002, Los Muestros, numbers 46–49, R. Capuia, page 39:Delante de mi kozina un arbol estaba al suelo, las raïses a l’ayre.- There was a tree on the ground in front of my kitchen, the roots in the air.
- (countable) floor (the interior bottom or surface of a house or building; the supporting surface of a room)
1553, “Reyes Primero, VI”, in Yom Tob Atías, Abraham Usque, transl., Biblia de Ferrara, page 243:Y edificó à paredes de la caſa, dentro, cõ tablas de cedros,de ſuelo de la caſa haſta paredes de avigamiento cubrio de leño de dentro, y cubrio à ſuelo de la caſa con tabla de boxes.- And he built the walls of the house within with boards of cedar; from the floor of the house unto the joists of the ceiling, he covered them on the inside with wood; and he covered the floor of the house with boards of cypress.
Etymology 2
See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
Verb
suelo
- first-person singular present indicative of soler
References
- ^ “suelo”, in Trezoro de la Lengua Djudeoespanyola
Old Spanish
Etymology 1
Inherited from Latin solum (“floor; ground or soil”).
Noun
suelo m (plural suelos)
- ground (planet’s surface)
1443, Juan Eusebio Nieremberg, Cvruiosa y Ocvlta Filosofia. Primera, y Segvnda Parte de las marauillas de las naturaleza, examinadas en varias queſtiones naturales., page 17:[…] vioſe que eſtaua eſponjoſo el ſuelo en aquella parte, […]- One had seen that the ground was spongy there.
- (countable) floor (the interior bottom or surface of a house or building; the supporting surface of a room)
- Synonyms: piso, tabaka
Descendants
Etymology 2
See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
Verb
suelo
- first-person singular present indicative of soler
References
- Ralph Steele Boggs et al. (1946) “suelo”, in Tentative Dictionary of Medieval Spanish, volume II, Chapel Hill, page 483
Spanish
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈswelo/
- Rhymes: -elo
- Syllabification: sue‧lo
Etymology 1
Inherited from Old Spanish suelo, from Latin solum (“floor; ground, soil”).
Noun
suelo m (plural suelos)
- dirt; earth; ground; soil
- Synonym: tierra
- (countable) floor (the interior bottom or surface of a house or building; the supporting surface of a room)
- Synonym: piso
Derived terms
Verb
suelo
- first-person singular present indicative of solar
Etymology 2
See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
Verb
suelo
- first-person singular present indicative of soler: “I usually”
Suelo venir a las cinco.- I usually come at five o’clock.
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