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sol

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/
• (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.
   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/
• (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.

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

Noun

sol (plural sols or soles)

1. (historical) A former Spanish-American silver coin.
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/
• (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).

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/
• (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.

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): [soɫ]

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) [ˈsɔl]
• 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)
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

Inherited from Spanish sol (“sun”).

Noun

sol

1. sun

Crimean Tatar

Noun

sol (accusative [please provide], plural [please provide])

1. left

Declension

Adjective

sol

1. left

References

• Mirjejev, V. A., Usejinov, S. M. (2002) Ukrajinsʹko-krymsʹkotatarsʹkyj slovnyk [Ukrainian – Crimean Tatar Dictionary]‎^[2], Simferopol: Dolya, →ISBN

Czech

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈsol]

Verb

sol

1. second-person singular imperative of solit

Danish

Etymology 1

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /soːl/, [soːˀl]
• 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/, [soːˀl]

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/, [sʌl]

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/

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^[3] [Linguistic Atlas of 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/
• 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/
• 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/
• 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 [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Galician

Etymology 1

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [s̺ol]

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): [s̺ol]

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): [s̺ɔl]

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): [sɔ́l]

Ideophone

sol

1. very white

   Synonym: fat

Indonesian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈsɔl]
• 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: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation — 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

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

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/, [s̠oːɫ̪]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /sol/, [sɔl]

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
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: [Term?]
    • 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: [Term?]
    • Cornish: Sul
    • Breton: Sul
    • Welsh: Sul

References

• AIS: Sprach- und Sachatlas Italiens und der Südschweiz [Linguistic and Ethnographic Atlas of Italy and Southern Switzerland] – 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

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): [suːɽ]

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

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

Etymology 1

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

Pronunciation

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

Noun

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

2. sun

3. sunshine

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
4. (historical) the Peruvian currency between 1863 and 1985

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.

Alternative forms

• seul, soul, sul

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈsou̯l/

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

   • 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

Descendants

• Swedish: sol

Piedmontese

Etymology

From Latin sōl.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sul/

Noun

sol m

1. sun

Portuguese

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)

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

Declension

Slovene

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sóːʋ/

Noun

sọ̑ł f

1. salt (a common substance)

Inflection

Further reading

• “sol”, in Slovarji Inštituta za slovenski jezik Frana Ramovša ZRC SAZU, portal Fran
• “sol”, in Termania, Amebis
• See also the general references

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈsol/ [ˈsol]
• Rhymes: -ol
• Syllabification: sol

Etymology 1

From Latin sōl (“sun”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *sóh₂wl̥. The Peruvian currency makes reference to the meaning "sun", but is a shortening from Latin solidus.

Noun

sol m (plural soles)

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

   Antonym: sombra

   quítate del sol ― get out of the sun

4. daylight (the time between sunrise and sunset)

   Antonym: noche

5. sol (a unit of currency, currently used in Peru)

Derived terms

Related terms

Etymology 2

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

Noun

sol m (uncountable)

1. sol (a musical note)

Etymology 3

Borrowed from English sol.

Noun

sol m (plural soles)

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

Further reading

• “sol”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014

Anagrams

• los

Swedish

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /suːl/

Noun

sol c

1. sun
2. (by extension): A star, especially when one considers things in its surroundings.

Declension

Derived terms

References

• sol in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
• sol in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)

Anagrams

• los

Talysh

Etymology

Cognate with Persian سال (sāl).

Noun

sol

1. year

Tok Pisin

Etymology 1

From English shoulder.

Noun

sol

1. (anatomy) shoulder

Etymology 2

From English salt.

Noun

sol

1. salt

Derived terms

Turkish

Etymology 1

From Ottoman Turkish صول (sol, “left”), from Proto-Turkic *sōl.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [soɫ]
• Hyphenation: sol

Noun

sol (definite accusative solu, plural sollar)

1. left

Antonyms

• sağ

Etymology 2

Verb

sol

1. second-person singular imperative of solmak

Etymology 3

From French sol.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [sol]

Noun

sol (definite accusative solü, plural soller)

1. (music) sol

Veps

Etymology

From Proto-Finnic *soola.

Noun

sol

1. salt

Declension

Volapük

Noun

sol (nominative plural sols)

1. sun

Declension

Zazaki

Etymology

Ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *séh₂ls (“salt”).

Noun

sol

1. salt

Source: wiktionary.org