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4-letter words (3 found)

LOOS,SOLO,SOOL,

3-letter words (4 found)

LOO,LOS,OOS,SOL,

2-letter words (4 found)

LO,OO,OS,SO,

You can make 11 words from solo according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

All 4 letters words made out of solo

solo oslo sloo lsoo olso loso sool osol sool osol oosl oosl sloo lsoo solo oslo loso olso olos loos ools ools loos olos

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Definitions and meaning of solo

solo

Etymology

Borrowed from Italian solo, from Latin sōlus, probably related to se (“himself”).

Pronunciation

  • (US, Canada) IPA(key): /ˈsoʊ.loʊ/
  • (UK) IPA(key): /ˈsəʊ.ləʊ/
  • Rhymes: (US, Canada) -oʊloʊ, (UK) -əʊləʊ


Noun

solo (plural solos or soli)

  1. (music) A piece of music for one performer.
  2. A job or performance done by one person alone.
  3. (games) A card game similar to whist in which each player plays against the others in turn without a partner
  4. A single shot of espresso.
  5. (Gaelic football) An instance of soloing the football.

Coordinate terms

  • (coffee): doppio, triplo (rare)

Translations

Adjective

solo (not comparable)

  1. Without a companion or instructor.
  2. (music) Of, or relating to, a musical solo.

Translations

Adverb

solo (not comparable)

  1. Alone, without a companion.

Verb

solo (third-person singular simple present solos or soloes, present participle soloing, simple past and past participle soloed)

  1. (music) To perform a solo.
  2. To perform something in the absence of anyone else.
  3. (Gaelic football) To drop the ball and then toe-kick it upward into the hands.
  4. (slang) To independently perform an action, especially a challenging task.

Translations

Derived terms

Descendants

  • → Portuguese: solar

Related terms

  • solitaire

See also

  • Thesaurus:number

Anagrams

  • Loos, OOLs, Oslo, loos, sloo, sool

Asturian

Adjective

solo

  1. neuter of solu

Catalan

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Italian solo.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): (Central) [ˈsɔ.lu]
  • IPA(key): (Balearic) [ˈsɔ.lo]
  • IPA(key): (Valencian) [ˈso.lo]

Noun

solo m (plural solos)

  1. (music) solo (a piece of music for one performer)
  2. (card games) solo (a trick-taking card game played with 36 cards, similar to frog)
Derived terms
  • solista

Further reading

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

Etymology 2

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): (Central) [ˈsɔ.lu]
  • IPA(key): (Balearic, Valencian) [ˈsɔ.lo]

Verb

solo

  1. first-person singular present indicative of solar

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from Italian solo, from Latin solus.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈsoː.loː/
  • Hyphenation: so‧lo

Noun

solo m (plural solo's or soli, diminutive solootje n)

  1. (music) solo (piece or passage performed or typified by a single performer)

Derived terms

  • drumsolo
  • gitaarsolo
  • solist
  • soloactie

Esperanto

Etymology

From sola +‎ -o.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ˈsolo]
  • Rhymes: -olo
  • Hyphenation: so‧lo

Noun

solo (accusative singular solon, plural soloj, accusative plural solojn)

  1. a single, solitary thing
  2. (music) solo
    Synonym: soloo

French

Etymology

Borrowed from Italian solo. Doublet of seul.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /sɔ.lo/

Noun

solo m (plural solos)

  1. (music) solo (a piece of music for one performer)

Derived terms

  • guitare solo
  • soliste

See also

  • duo, trio

Further reading

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

Galician

Etymology 1

From Latin solum (“soil, ground”).

Noun

solo m (plural solos)

  1. soil, ground
    Synonym: chan

Etymology 2

Borrowed from Italian solo.

Noun

solo m (plural solos)

  1. (music) solo (a piece of music for one performer)
    Synonym: só

Etymology 3

Verb

solo

  1. first-person singular present indicative of solar

German

Etymology

Borrowed from Italian solo.

Adjective

solo (indeclinable, predicative only)

  1. alone
  2. single (not married nor dating)
    Ich bin solo. ― I'm single.

Higaonon

Etymology

From sulu, compare Cebuano sulu.

Noun

solo

  1. lamp

Italian

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈso.lo/
  • Rhymes: -olo
  • Hyphenation: só‧lo

Etymology 1

From Latin sōlus.

Adjective

solo (feminine sola, masculine plural soli, feminine plural sole, superlative solissimo)

  1. alone, by oneself, unattended, unaccompanied, lonely, lone, lonesome
    Synonym: solitario
    Non sei solo. ― You are not alone.
  2. only, single, just one, unique, sole
    Synonym: unico
  3. (music) solo (a piece of music for one performer)
    Synonym: assolo
Coordinate terms
  • (single): doppio, triplo
Derived terms
  • solamente
  • da solo
Descendants
  • → English: solo
  • → German: solo

Etymology 2

From Latin sōlum.

Adverb

solo

  1. only, just, but, alone, merely
    Synonyms: solamente, soltanto
    solo una volta ― only once
    ha solo quattro anni ― he's just four

Conjunction

solo

  1. (followed by che) but, only
    Synonyms: ma, però
  2. (preceded by se) if only
    se solo lui non fosse qui ... ― if only he was not here ...
  3. (followed by se) only if
    […] solo se lui non è qui. ― […] only if he is not here.

Noun

solo m (plural soli, feminine sola)

  1. the only one, the only man
    Synonym: unico
    lui è il solo che può ... ― he is the only one/only man that can ...

Related terms

Anagrams

  • Oslo

Latin

Noun

solō

  1. dative/ablative singular of solum

Adjective

sōlō

  1. dative/ablative masculine/neuter singular of sōlus

References

  • “solo”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • solo in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.

Latvian

Noun

solo m (invariable)

  1. (music) solo

Malagasy

Etymology

Borrowed from a South Sulawesi language, from Proto-South Sulawesi *sulu(r); compare Makasar suluk.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈsulu/, [ˈsulʷ]

Noun

sòlo

  1. substitute, replacement

References

Norman

Etymology

Borrowed from English solo.

Noun

solo m (plural solos)

  1. (music, Jersey) solo

Northern Sami

Pronunciation

Verb

solo

  1. inflection of soallut:
    1. present indicative connegative
    2. second-person singular imperative

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

Borrowed from Italian solo, from Latin solus (“alone”).

Adverb

solo

  1. solo

Noun

solo (definite singular soloen, indefinite plural soloer or soli, definite singular soloene or soliene)

  1. (music, dance) a solo

References

  • “solo” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

Borrowed from Italian solo, from Latin solus (“alone”).

Adverb

solo

  1. solo

Noun

solo m (definite singular soloen, indefinite plural soloar, definite plural soloane)

  1. (music, dance) a solo

References

  • “solo” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Papiamentu

Etymology

From Portuguese sol and Spanish sol and Kabuverdianu sol.

Noun

solo

  1. sun

Polish

Etymology

Borrowed from Italian solo, from Latin sōlus.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈsɔ.lɔ/
  • Rhymes: -ɔlɔ
  • Syllabification: so‧lo

Noun

solo n (indeclinable)

  1. (music) solo (piece of music for one)
    Synonym: solówka
  2. (slang) a one-on-one fight usually between schoolers and agreed to in advance
    Synonym: solówka

Adjective

solo (not comparable, no derived adverb)

  1. (music) solo (without a companion or instructor)

Adverb

solo (not comparable)

  1. (music) solo (alone, without a companion)
    Synonym: pojedynczo

Related terms

Further reading

  • solo in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
  • solo in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Portuguese

Pronunciation

  • Hyphenation: so‧lo

Etymology 1

Learned borrowing from Latin solum (“soil, ground”).

Noun

solo m (plural solos)

  1. (geology) soil, ground
Derived terms
  • subsolo

Etymology 2

Borrowed from Italian solo, from Latin sōlus (“alone, solitary”). Doublet of só.

Noun

solo m (plural solos)

  1. (music) solo (a piece of music for one performer)
Quotations

For quotations using this term, see Citations:solo.

Etymology 3

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb

solo

  1. first-person singular present indicative of solar

Further reading

  • “solo” in iDicionário Aulete.
  • “solo” in Dicionário inFormal.
  • “solo” in Dicionário Aberto based on Novo Diccionário da Língua Portuguesa de Cândido de Figueiredo, 1913
  • “solo” in Dicionário infopédia da Língua Portuguesa. Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2024.
  • “solo” in Michaelis Dicionário Brasileiro da Língua Portuguesa.
  • “solo” in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa.

Romanian

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from Italian solo.

Noun

solo m (plural solouri)

  1. solo

Declension

Spanish

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈsolo/ [ˈso.lo]
  • Rhymes: -olo
  • Syllabification: so‧lo
  • Homophone: sólo

Etymology 1

Inherited from Latin sōlus (“alone, sole, only”).

Adjective

solo (feminine sola, masculine plural solos, feminine plural solas)

  1. sole, only, unique, single
  2. lonely, lonesome
  3. alone, by oneself
  4. automatic; self-, by itself
Derived terms
Related terms

Etymology 2

From Latin sōlum.

Adverb

solo

  1. only, solely, just
    Synonyms: solamente, únicamente
    Solo quiero salir. ― I just want to leave.
    No solo... sino también... ― Not only... but also...
Alternative forms
  • (superseded) sólo

Further reading

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

Swedish

Adjective

solo (comparative mer solo, superlative mest solo)

  1. (predicative only) alone
    Synonym: ensam
    Hon var solo på jobbet ― She was alone at work

Noun

solo n

  1. (music) a solo (piece of music or dance performed by or strongly centered on a single or limited number of performers)
    Antonym: tutti
  2. (in compounds) something done alone
    soloflygning ― solo flight

Declension

References

  • solo in Svensk ordbok (SO)
  • solo in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
  • solo in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)

Walloon

Etymology 1

From Latin sōl, compare French soleil.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /sɔ.ˈlɔ/
  • Hyphenation: so‧lo

Noun

solo m (plural solos)

  1. (astronomy) sun
    Synonym: solea

Etymology 2

Borrowed from French solo, from Italian solo

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /sɔ.ˈlɔ/
  • Hyphenation: so‧lo

Noun

solo m (plural solos)

  1. (music) solo

Source: wiktionary.org