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4-letter words (4 found)

LOSE,OLES,SLOE,SOLE,

3-letter words (8 found)

ELS,LES,LOS,OES,OLE,OSE,SEL,SOL,

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EL,ES,LO,OE,OS,SO,

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Definitions and meaning of sole

sole

English

Pronunciation

  • enPR: sōl
    • (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /səʊl/, (contemporary) [sɒʊɫ]
    • (General American) IPA(key): /soʊl/
    • (General Australian) IPA(key): /səʉl/, [sɒʊɫ]
    • (New Zealand) IPA(key): /sɐʉl/, [sɒʊɫ]
  • (Indic) IPA(key): /soːl/
  • Rhymes: -əʊl
  • Homophones: Seoul, (toe–tow merger) soul, sowl

Etymology 1

From Middle English sole, soule, from Old French sol, soul (“alone”), from Latin sōlus (“alone, single, solitary, lonely”). Ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *swé (reflexive pronoun). Perhaps related to Old Latin sollus (“whole, complete”), from Proto-Indo-European *solh₂- (“safe, healthy”). More at save.

Adjective

sole (not comparable)

  1. Only.
    Synonyms: see Thesaurus:sole
  2. (law) Unmarried (especially of a woman); widowed.
    Synonym: lone
  3. Unique; unsurpassed.
  4. With independent power; unfettered.
Derived terms
Translations

Etymology 2

From Middle English sole, soole, from Old English sole, solu. Reinforced by Anglo-Norman sole, Old French 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”). Cognate with Dutch zool (“sole, tread”), German Sohle (“sole, insole, bottom, floor”), Danish sål (“sole”), Icelandic sóli (“sole, outsole”), Gothic 𐍃𐌿𐌻𐌾𐌰 (sulja, “sandal”). Related to Latin solum (“bottom, ground, soil”). More at soil.

Compare typologically Russian по́чва (póčva) akin to подо́шва (podóšva).

Alternative forms

  • soal

Noun

sole (plural soles)

  2. (anatomy) The bottom or plantar surface of the foot.
    Synonym: (medical term) planta
  4. (footwear) The bottom of a shoe or boot.
  6. (obsolete) The foot itself.
  8. (zoology) Solea solea, a flatfish of the family Soleidae; a true sole.
  10. (by extension) A flatfish resembling those of the family Soleidae.
  11. The bottom or lower part of anything, or that on which anything rests in standing.
    1. The bottom of the body of a plough; the slade.
    2. The bottom of a furrow.
    3. The end section of the chanter of a set of bagpipes.
    5. The horny substance under a horse's foot, which protects the more tender parts.
      Coordinate term: frog
    6. (military) The bottom of an embrasure.
    7. (nautical) A piece of timber attached to the lower part of the rudder, to make it even with the false keel.
    8. (nautical) The floor inside the cabin of a yacht or boat
  12. (mining) The seat or bottom of a mine; applied to horizontal veins or lodes.
Derived terms
Descendants
  • → Hebrew: סוֹל (sol)
Translations

Verb

sole (third-person singular simple present soles, present participle soling, simple past and past participle soled)

  1. (transitive) To put a sole on a shoe or a boot.
Derived terms
  • resole
Translations

Etymology 3

From Middle English sole, soole, from Old English sāl (“a rope, cord, line, bond, rein, door-hinge, necklace, collar”), from Proto-Germanic *sailą, *sailaz (“rope, cable”), *sailō (“noose, rein, bondage”), from Proto-Indo-European *sey- (“to tie to, tie together”). Cognate with Scots sale, saile (“halter, collar”), Dutch zeel (“rope, cord, strap”), German Seil (“rope, cable, wire”), Icelandic seil (“a string, line”). Non-Germanic cognates include Albanian dell (“sinew, vein”).

Noun

sole (plural soles)

  1. (dialectal or obsolete) A wooden band or yoke put around the neck of an ox or cow in the stall.

Etymology 4

From Middle English sol, from Old English sol (“mire, miry place”), from Proto-Germanic *sulą (“mire, wallow, mud”), from Proto-Indo-European *sūl- (“thick liquid”). Cognate with Saterland Frisian soal (“ditch”), Dutch sol (“water and mud filled pit”), German Suhle (“mire, wallow”), Norwegian saula, søyla (“mud puddle”). More at soil.

Alternative forms

  • soal

Noun

sole (plural soles)

  1. (dialectal, Northern England) A pond or pool; a dirty pond of standing water.

Etymology 5

From earlier sowle (“to pull by the ear”). Origin unknown. Perhaps from sow (“female pig”) +‎ -le, as in the phrase "take a sow by the wrong ear", or from Middle English sole (“rope”). See above.

Alternative forms

  • soal, sowl

Verb

sole (third-person singular simple present soles, present participle soling, simple past and past participle soled)

  1. (transitive, UK dialectal) To pull by the ears; to pull about; haul; lug.

Anagrams

  • EOLs, ESOL, Elos, LEOs, Leos, Lose, OELs, elos, leos, lose, selo, sloe

Afrikaans

Noun

sole

  1. plural of sool

Czech

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ˈsolɛ]

Verb

sole

  1. masculine singular present transgressive of solit

Danish

Etymology

sol +‎ -e, From sol.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ˈsoːlə]

Verb

sole (imperative sol, infinitive at sole, present tense soler, past tense solede, perfect tense solet)

  1. (rare) to expose something to the sun
  2. (reflexive) to bask in the sun; to sunbathe
    1. (reflexive, figurative) to enjoy success and admiration of others

Conjugation

Noun

sole c

  1. indefinite plural of sol

References

  • “sole” in Den Danske Ordbog

Esperanto

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈsole/
  • Rhymes: -ole
  • Hyphenation: so‧le

Adverb

sole

  1. solely

Related terms

  • sola

French

Etymology

Inherited from Vulgar Latin *sola, from Latin solea.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /sɔl/

Noun

sole f (plural soles)

  1. (ichthyology) sole (fish)
  2. sole, the bottom of a hoof
  3. (carpentry) sole, a piece of timber, a joist
  4. (agriculture) a piece of land devoted to crop rotation

Derived terms

  • solive

Further reading

  • “sole”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Galician

Verb

sole

  1. inflection of solar:
    1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
    2. third-person singular imperative

Hawaiian Creole

Etymology

From Samoan sole (“man, dude, friend”).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /so.le/

Noun

sole

  1. (informal) a person of (usually local) Samoan descent

Italian

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈso.le/
  • Rhymes: -ole
  • Hyphenation: só‧le

Etymology 1

From Sole, from Latin sōlem, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *sóh₂wl̥. Cognates include Greek ήλιος (ílios), Icelandic sól, Hindi सूर्य (sūrya), and Russian со́лнце (sólnce).

Noun

sole m (plural soli, diminutive (colloquial) solicèllo or (uncommon) solicìno)

  1. (colloquial, astronomy) star (for extension of Sole)
    Synonym: stella
  2. (heraldry) sun (a star in heraldry)
  3. (alchemy) gold
    Synonym: oro
  4. sunlight
  5. (poetic) daytime, day (the interval between sunrise and sunset)
  6. (poetic) year
  7. (poetic, in the plural) eyes
Related terms

See also

Further reading

  • sole on the Italian Wikipedia.Wikipedia it
  • sole in Dizionario Italiano Olivetti, Olivetti Media Communication
  • sole in Collins Italian-English Dictionary

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Adjective

sole

  1. feminine plural of solo

Noun

sole f

  1. plural of sola

Anagrams

  • leso

Latin

Etymology 1

See sōl.

Pronunciation

  • (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [ˈsoː.ɫɛ]
  • (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [ˈsɔː.le]

Noun

sōle

  1. ablative singular of sōl

Etymology 2

See sōlus.

Pronunciation

  • (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [ˈsoː.ɫɛ]
  • (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [ˈsɔː.le]

Adjective

sōle

  1. vocative masculine singular of sōlus

Neapolitan

Etymology

Inherited from Latin sōlem.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈsolə/

Noun

sole m

  1. Sun
    Steva chiuvenno, po' è asciuto 'o sole. ― It was raining, then the sun came out.

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

Norman

Etymology

From Vulgar Latin *sola, from Latin solea.

Noun

sole f (plural soles)

  1. sole (fish)

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

Probably from the noun sol

Verb

sole (imperative sol, present tense soler, passive -, simple past sola or solet or solte, past participle sola or solet or solt, present participle solende)

  1. (reflexive, sole seg) to sunbathe, sun oneself, bask (also figurative)

References

  • “sole” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /skuːlə/

Etymology 1

From Old Norse sóli m, from Latin solum (“bottom, ground”).

Noun

sole m (definite singular solen, indefinite plural solar, definite plural solane)

  1. (anatomy) a sole (bottom or plantar surface of the foot)
  2. (footwear) a sole (bottom of a shoe or boot)
Derived terms

Verb

sole (present tense solar, past tense sola, past participle sola, passive infinitive solast, present participle solande, imperative sole/sol)

  1. to apply a sole to footwear
Alternative forms
  • sola (a-infinitive)
Derived terms
  • soling f

See also

  • såle (Bokmål)

Etymology 2

From the noun sol f (“sun”).

Alternative forms

  • sola (a-infinitive)

Verb

sole (present tense solar, past tense sola, past participle sola, passive infinitive solast, present participle solande, imperative sole/sol)

  1. (reflexive) to sunbathe
  2. (reflexive, figurative) to bask
  3. (transitive) to expose to the sun
Derived terms
  • soling f

References

  • “sole” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Anagrams

  • lose, Sola, sloe

Old English

Alternative forms

  • solu

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin solea, from solum (“bottom, base”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *swol-.

Noun

sole f

  1. sole
  2. shoe, sandal

Declension

Weak feminine (n-stem):

Descendants

  • Middle English: sole, soole
    • English: sole
    • Scots: sole

References

  • Joseph Bosworth, T. Northcote Toller (1898) “sole”, in An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary, second edition, Oxford: Oxford University Press.
  • John R. Clark Hall (1916) “sole”, in A Concise Anglo-Saxon Dictionary‎[6], 2nd edition, New York: Macmillan

Old French

Adjective

sole f

  1. oblique/nominative feminine singular of sol

Polish

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈsɔ.lɛ/
  • Rhymes: -ɔlɛ
  • Syllabification: so‧le
  • Homophone: solę

Noun

sole

  1. nominative/accusative/vocative plural of sól

Noun

sole

  1. nominative/accusative/vocative plural of sola

Noun

sole

  1. nominative/accusative/vocative plural of sol

Portuguese

Verb

sole

  1. inflection of solar:
    1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
    2. third-person singular imperative

Serbo-Croatian

Verb

sole (Cyrillic spelling соле)

  1. third-person plural present of soliti

Source: wiktionary.org