sol

From Glover's solmization, from Middle English sol (“fifth degree or note of Guido of Arezzo's hexachordal scales”),^[1] Italian sol in the solmization of Guido of Arezzo, from the first syllable of Latin solve (“wash away”) in the lyrics of the scale-ascending hymn Ut queant laxis by Paulus Deacon.^[2]

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /sɒl/, /səʊl/

• Audio (Southern England):

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• (General American) enPR: sōl, IPA^(key): /sɔl/, /sɑl/, /soʊl/
• Homophones: soul, sole (Canada, US)
• Rhymes: -ɒl, -əʊl

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.
      • c. 1590–1592 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Taming of the Shrew”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene i], page 218, column 2:

        D ſol re, one Cliffe, two notes haue I, / Ela mi, ſhow pitty or I die.

      • [c. 1591–1595 (date written), [William Shakespeare], […] Romeo and Juliet. […] (First Quarto), London: […] Iohn Danter, published 1597, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene v]:

        Ser[vant, i.e., Peter]. Alack alack what ſhal I doe, come Fidlers play me ſome mery dumpe. / I. [First musician]. A ſir, this is no time to play. / […] / Ser. Then will I giue it you, and ſoundly to. / I. What will you giue vs? / Ser. The fidler, Ile re you, Ile fa you, Ile ſol you. / I. If you re vs and fa vs, we will note you.

        A nonce use as a verb.]

   2. In a fixed-do system: the musical note G.

• so
• soh

From Old French sol (“French coin”) (modern French sou), from Latin solidum, the accusative singular of solidus (“Roman gold coin; (adjective) solid”),^[3] ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *solh₂- (“whole”). Doublet of sold, soldo, solid, solidus, sou, and xu.

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /sɒl/

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

sol (plural sols)

1. (historical) An old coin from France and some other countries worth 12 deniers.
   • 1605 (first performance), Beniamin Ionson [i.e., Ben Jonson], “Volpone, or The Foxe. A Comœdie. […]”, in The Workes of Beniamin Ionson (First Folio), London: […] Will[iam] Stansby, published 1616, →OCLC, Act IV, scene v, pages 502–503:

     This fellow, For ſix ſols more, would pleade againſt his Maker.

   • 1611, Thomas Coryate [i.e., Thomas Coryat], “My Obseruations of the Most Glorious, Peerelesse, and Mayden Citie of Venice: […]”, in Coryats Crudities Hastily Gobled Vp in Five Moneths Trauells […], London: […] W[illiam] S[tansby for the author], →OCLC, page 285, lines 18–24:

     Moſt of their owne coines that I ſaw were theſe. In gold but one, which is their chiquiney: This piece doth much vary in the value. For ſometimes it is high, ſometimes low. When I was there, a chiquiney was worth eleuen liuers, and twelue ſols. Which counteruaileth eight ſhillings and eight pence halfe penny of our money.

   • 1748, [Tobias Smollett], chapter XLIV, in The Adventures of Roderick Random. […], volume II, London: […] [William Strahan] for J[ohn] Osborn […], →OCLC, page 69:

     It was the fate of the grenadier company, to which I now belonged, to lie at Rheims, where I found myſelf in the utmoſt want of every thing: My pay, which amounted to five ſols a day, far from ſupplying me with neceſſaries; being ſcarce ſufficient to procure a wretched ſubſiſtance, to keep ſoul and body together; […]

• solid
• solidus

From Spanish sol (“sun”),^[4] from Latin sōl (“sun”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *sóh₂wl̥ (“sun”). Doublet of Sol and sol, directly from the Latin.

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /sɒl/

• Audio (Southern England):

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

sol (plural sols or soles)

1. (historical) A former Spanish-American silver coin.
   • 1763, [Antoine-Simon] Le Page du Pratz, “Of the Commerce that Is, and May Be, Carried Out in Louisiana. […]”, in [anonymous], transl., The History of Louisiana, or of the Western Parts of Virginia and Carolina: […], volume I, London: […] T. Becket and P. A. De Hondt […], →OCLC, page 336:

     The Tobacco of this colony is ſo excellent, that if the commerce thereof was free, it would ſell for one hundred ſols and ſix livres the pound, ſo fine and delicate is its juice and flavour.

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.

• Sun, sun

From Latin sōl (“sun”);^[5] see further at etymology 3. Doublet of sol from Spanish.

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /sɒl/

• Audio (Southern England):

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

sol (plural sols)

2. (astronomy) A solar day on the planet Mars (equivalent to 24 hours, 39 minutes, 35 seconds).
   • 2011, Andy Weir, chapter 3, in The Martian, New York, N.Y.: Broadway Books, published 2014, →ISBN, page 18:

     I need to create calories. And I need enough to last the 1387 sols until Ares 4 arrives. If I don't get rescued by Ares 4, I'm dead anyway. A sol is 39 minutes longer than a day, so it works out to be 1425 days. That's my target: 1425 days of food.

   • 2014, Gerard ’t Hooft, Stefan Vandoren, “10⁵ Seconds = 100,000 Seconds = 1.16 days = 27.78 Hours”, in Saskia A. Eisberg-’t Hooft, transl., Time in Powers of Ten: Natural Phenomena and Their Timescales, Singapore: World Scientific Publishing Co., →ISBN, part I, page 25:

     88,775 seconds = 24 hours, 39 minutes and 35 seconds / The duration of a synodic day on Mars, a ‘sol’

• tosol
• yestersol

• Sol
• Sun, sun

Sense 1 (“type of colloid”) is derived from -sol (in words like alcosol and hydrosol), an abbreviation of solution.^[6]

Sense 2 (“solution to an objection”) is derived directly from solution.^[7]

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /sɒl/

• Audio (Southern England):

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

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.
   • 1624, Democritus Junior [pseudonym; Robert Burton], “Symptomes Generall, Loue to Their Owne Sect, Hate of All Other Religions, […]”, in The Anatomy of Melancholy: […], 2nd edition, Oxford, Oxfordshire: […] John Lichfield and James Short, for Henry Cripps, →OCLC, partition 3, section 4, member 1, subsection 3, page 524:

     [F]or that they had nothing elſe to doe, […] haue coyned a thouſand idle queſtions, nice diſtinctions, Obs and Sols, […]

   • [1677 (indicated as 1678), [Samuel Butler], “[The Third Part of Hudibras]. Canto II.”, in Hudibras. The Third and Last Part. […], London: […] Robert Horne, […], published 1679, →OCLC; republished in A[lfred] R[ayney] Waller, editor, Hudibras: Written in the Time of the Late Wars, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire: University Press, 1905, →OCLC, page 165:

     Where Hinderſon, and th' other Maſſes / Were ſent to Cap Texts, and Put Caſes: / To paſs for deep, and Learned Scholars, / Although but Paltry, Ob-and-Sollers: […]]

• aerosol
• sol-gel
• solate
• solation
• solid sol

sol

1. (informal, labour, leftism) Clipping of solidarity.

• Used with in as an informal written valediction.

• LOS, OLS, SLO, los'

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

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

sol m

1. sun
2. sunlight

sol m

1. sol (musical note)

• “sol”, in Aragonario, diccionario castellano–aragonés (in Spanish)
• 2022 October, Diccionario ortografico de l'aragonés (Seguntes la PO de l'EFA) (version 13) (in Aragonese), page 2187
• 2024 October, Diccionario aragonés-castellano-catalán: Estudio de Filología Aragonesa (version 14) (in Aragonese), page 1045

From a contraction of the preposition so (“under”) + masculine singular article el (“the”).

sol m

1. (West) under the
2. (Center and East) on the

From Proto-Turkic *sōl.

• IPA^(key): [soɫ]

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sol (definite accusative solu, plural sollar)

1. left

   küçənin sol tərəfi ― left side of the street

• sağ

• solaxay (“left-hander”)
• solçu (“leftist”)
  • solçuluq (“leftism”)

From English salt. Cognate with Tok Pisin sol.

• IPA^(key): /ˈsol/
• Hyphenation: sol

sol

1. salt

• Terry Crowley (2004) Bislama Reference Grammar, Honolulu: University of Hawaiʻi press, →ISBN, page 17

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic, Valencia) [ˈsɔl]
• Homophone: sòl
• Rhymes: -ɔl

Inherited from Old Catalan sol, from Latin sōlem (“sun”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *sóh₂wl̥.

sol m

1. (astronomy) the Sun (the center of our solar system)

sol m (plural sols)

1. (astronomy) sun
2. (numismatics) sol (a unit of currency used in Peru)

• solar

sol m (plural sols)

1. (music) sol (the fifth note of the diatonic scale)

Borrowed from English sol.

sol m (plural sols)

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

Inherited from Latin sōlus (“solitary”).

sol (feminine sola, masculine plural sols, feminine plural soles)

1. alone (by oneself, solitary)
   • 2020 March 12, María José Gómez, Time Out Barcelona‎^[1], volume 588, page 8, column Fight!:

     M'encanta viure en parella, sortir en grup, treballar en equip. Però també m'agrada estar sola.

     I love living as a couple, going out in a group, working on a team. But I also like being alone.

2. unique

• soledat

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

sol

1. third-person singular present indicative of soler

• “sol”, in Diccionari de la llengua catalana [Dictionary of the Catalan Language] (in Catalan), second edition, Institute of Catalan Studies [Catalan: Institut d'Estudis Catalans], April 2007
• “sol” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

Inherited from Spanish sol (“sun”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈsol/, [ˈsol]

sol

1. sun

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

1. left

sol

1. left

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

• IPA^(key): [ˈsol]

sol

1. second-person singular imperative of solit

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

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

sol c (singular definite solen, plural indefinite sole)

1. sun

sol

1. imperative of sole

From Latin solūtiō (“solution”).

• IPA^(key): /soːl/, [soːˀl]

sol c (singular definite solen, plural indefinite soler)

1. (chemistry) sol (solution)

From Latin sol(ve) in the hymn for St. John the Baptist.

• IPA^(key): /sɔl/, [sʌl]

sol n (singular definite sollet, plural indefinite soller)

1. (music) sol (note)

• “sol” in Den Danske Ordbog

From Latin sol(ve) in the hymn for St. John the Baptist all note names were taken from.

• IPA^(key): /sɔl/

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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)

• solseutel

• los

Inherited from Latin sōlus.

sol (feminine sola, masculine plural sols, feminine plural soles) (ORB, broad)

1. alone

In many areas replaced with its own derivative solèt.

• solament
• solèt

• seul in DicoFranPro: Dictionnaire Français/Francoprovençal – on dicofranpro.llm.umontreal.ca
• sol in Lo trèsor Arpitan – on arpitan.eu

• 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, volume 12: Sk–š, page 78

From Latin solum (“soil, ground, floor”).

• IPA^(key): /sɔl/

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• Rhymes: -ɔl

sol m (plural sols)

1. soil, earth
2. ground
3. floor

From Latin sol(ve) in the hymn for St. John the Baptist where all note names were taken from.

• IPA^(key): /sɔl/

• Audio (Paris):

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• Rhymes: -ɔl

sol m (plural sol)

1. (music) sol (the fifth step (G) in the solfège scale of C, preceded by fa and followed by la)

• clef de sol

From Spanish sol (“sun”), itself from Latin sol.

• IPA^(key): /sɔl/

• Audio (Paris):

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• Rhymes: -ɔl

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

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.

• IPA^(key): /su/

sol m (plural sols)

1. (archaic) sou (the feudal era coin)

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

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

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

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)

• (antonym(s) of “sunlight”): sombra
• (antonym(s) of “sunny side”): sombra
• (antonym(s) of “daylight”): noite

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

sol m (plural soles)

1. (music) sol (a musical note)
2. (music) G (the musical note or key)

From English sol.

• IPA^(key): /ˈsɔl/ [ˈs̺ɔɫ]
• Rhymes: -ɔl

sol m (plural soles)

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

• Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, Ana Isabel Boullón Agrelo (2006–2022) “sol”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “sol”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “sol”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN
• “sol”, in Dicionario da Real Academia Galega (in Galician), A Coruña: Royal Galician Academy, 2012–2025

From Portuguese sol. Cognate with Kabuverdianu sol.

sol

1. sun

• IPA^(key): /sól/
  • (Standard Kano Hausa) IPA^(key): [sɔ́l]

sol

1. very white

   Synonym: fat

• IPA^(key): [ˈsɔl]
• Hyphenation: sol

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.

sol (plural sol-sol)

1. sole (the bottom of a shoe or boot)

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.

sol (plural sol-sol)

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

• “sol” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016.

sol (plural soles)

1. sun

sol (comparative plus sol, superlative le plus sol)

1. alone

sol

1. (quantifying) only

• solmente

From the first syllable of Latin solve, from the medieval hymn Ut queant laxis, from which the names of the notes were derived.

• IPA^(key): /ˈsɔl/
• Rhymes: -ɔl
• Hyphenation: sòl

sol m (uncountable)

1. sol (a musical note)
2. G (the musical note and key)

Borrowed from English sol.

• IPA^(key): /ˈsɔl/
• Rhymes: -ɔl
• Hyphenation: sòl

sol m (uncountable)

1. sol (a type of colloid)

Borrowed from Spanish sol.

• IPA^(key): /ˈsɔl/
• Rhymes: -ɔl
• Hyphenation: sòl

sol m (uncountable)

1. sol (a currency of Peru)
2. (historical) sol (a former Spanish-American silver coin)

• IPA^(key): /ˈsol/
• Rhymes: -ol
• Hyphenation: sól

sol m (apocopated)

1. apocopic form of sole

• IPA^(key): /ˈsol/
• Rhymes: -ol
• Hyphenation: sól

sol (apocopated)

1. apocopic form of solo

sol (apocopated)

1. apocopic form of solo

• 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)

From Portuguese sol.

sol

1. sun

sol m (Hebrew spelling סול)

1. sun

• Sōl
• ☉ (alchemy)

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).^[1] Alternatively from Proto-Italic *saul through an irregular change conditioned by -l, from Proto-Indo-European *séh₂ul.^[2]

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈsoːɫ]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈsɔl]

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
   • c. 84 BCE – 54 BCE, Catullus, Carmina 5.4–6:

     Soles occidere et redire possunt / nobis cum semel occidit brevis lux / nox est perpetua una dormienda

     Suns can set and rise again / but once this brief light ends / there is endless night for us to sleep.

   • c. 84 BCE – 54 BCE, Catullus, Carmina 8.3–5:

     Fulsere quondam candidi tibi soles / cum ventitabas quo puella ducebat / amata nobis quantum amabitur nulla.

     Once shined for you beautiful suns / when you went where the girl led you / loved by us like no other [girl].

5. (mythology) See Sōl.

Third-declension noun.

• sōlāris

• 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, volume 12: Sk–š, page 23
• "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.

From Latin sōl.

sol

1. sun

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

• IPA^(key): /sɔl/

sol f

1. salt (sodium chloride)
2. (chemistry) salt (a compound of an acid and a base)

• solny
• solowy

From Latin sōl (“sun”), or perhaps from Old English sōl (“sun”), both of which hail from Proto-Indo-European *sóh₂wl̥.

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

     Mercurie..and brymstoon..out of Sol and Luna were ydrawe.

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

• (planet, metal): sonne
• (planet): Phebus

• “sol, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 17 June 2018.

Borrowed from Assyrian Neo-Aramaic ܨܘܠܬܐ (ṣwltā)

sol f

1. shoe

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

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

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

1. sun

   Solen skinner.

   The sun is shining.

• sole (verb)

Shortened form of Latin solūtiō

sol m

1. solution

• aerosol

sol

1. imperative of sole

• “sol” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

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

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

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

2. sun

   Sola skin i dag.

   The sun shines today.

3. sunshine

   Det er sol ute.

   There is sunshine outside.

4. a shiningly merry girl

• sola, sole (verb)

• helio-
• solar
• solarium
• solsikke

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.

• so (an open syllable variant)

• IPA^(key): /sɔːl/
• Homophone: sål

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)

• (scale of solfège): do, re, mi, fa, sol, la, ti, do

Shortened form of Latin solūtiō.

sol m

1. solution

• aerosol

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).

sol m (plural solen)

2. sol; the main Peruvian currency since 1991
   • 2009 September 4, Dag og Tid, page 11:

     Det representerer investeringar på 4600 millionar soles [om lag 9 milliardar NOK], presiserer viseministeren.

     It represents investments of 4600 million sols [about 9 billion Norwegian kroner], says the vice minister.

4. (historical) the Peruvian currency between 1863 and 1985
   • 1981, Gregorio Condori Mamani, translated by Svanaug Steinnes, Indianarliv i Peru, Oslo: Samlaget, page 48:

     Alt dette kosta åtte soles.

     It cost eight sols in total.

sol n (definite singular solet, indefinite plural sol, definite plural sola)

1. alternative spelling of sòl

• “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

• los, lós, lòs, sol, sòl, sol-, Sol, slo

From Proto-West Germanic *sōl, from Proto-Germanic *sōl (“sun”).

• IPA^(key): /soːl/

sōl ?

1. sun
2. the Sun

• The exact gender is unknown. Based on cognates in related languages, it is speculated to be either feminine or neuter.

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.

• IPA^(key): /sol/

sol n

1. mud, wet sand, mire
2. wallowing-place, slough, miry-place

Strong a-stem:

• Middle English: sol, sole (merged with descendant of Old English solu)
  • English: soil, soal

sol

1. dark, dirty, soiled

• Middle English: sol, sole

Inherited from Latin sōlus.

• seul, soul, sul

• IPA^(key): /ˈsou̯l/

sol m (oblique and nominative feminine singular sole)

1. alone

• solement

• French: seul
• → English: sole

Inherited from Latin solidus.

• IPA^(key): /ˈsɔl/

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)

• French: sou
• → English: sol

• IPA^(key): /ˈsɔl/

From Latin sōlus (“alone”).

sol

1. only; just; no more than

• soo

From Latin sōl, sōlem (“sun”), from Proto-Indo-European *sóh₂wl̥ (“sun”).

sol m (plural sols)

1. sun
   • a. 1284, Alfonso X of Castile, Cantigas de Santa Maria, Códice de Toledo, cantiga 423 (facsimile):

     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.

• Fala: sol
• Galician: sol
• Portuguese: sol (see there for further descendants)

sol

1. third-person singular present indicative of soer

From Latin sōl.

sol m

1. Sun (celestial object)

• solelh

• Walther von Wartburg (1928–2002) “sōl”, in Französisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch, volume 12: Sk–š, page 23

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

sōl f

1. sun

dat_sg=sōlu

• Swedish: sol

From Latin sōl.

• IPA^(key): /sul/

sol m

1. sun

• Rhymes: (Portugal) -ɔl, (Brazil) -ɔw
• Homophone: Sol
• Hyphenation: sol

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

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)

   O sol frio de inverno.

   Winter's cold weather.

• solzinho (diminutive)
• solinho (diminutive)
• solzão (augmentative)
• solão (augmentative) (Brazil)

• Guinea-Bissau Creole: sol
• Kabuverdianu: sol
• Papiamentu: sol

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

sol m (plural sóis)

1. sol (a musical note)

From English sol.

sol m (plural sóis)

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

• “sol” in Dicionário Aberto based on Novo Diccionário da Língua Portuguesa de Cândido de Figueiredo, 1913

From Latin solum (“base, bottom; soil”), French sol.

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

From Proto-Slavic *sъlъ, compare Slovene sel.

sol m (plural soli)

1. messenger
2. envoy

• “sol”, in DEX online—Dicționare ale limbii române (Dictionaries of the Romanian language) (in Romanian), 2004–2025

• (Bosnian, Montenegrin, Serbian): sȏ

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

• IPA^(key): /sôːl/

sȏl f (Cyrillic spelling со̑л)

1. (Croatia) salt

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

• IPA^(key): /sóːʋ/

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sọ̑ł f

1. salt (a common substance)

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

• IPA^(key): /ˈsol/ [ˈsol]

• Audio (Spain):

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• Audio (Germany):

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• Rhymes: -ol
• Syllabification: sol

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.

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)

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

sol m (uncountable)

1. sol (a musical note)

Borrowed from English sol.

sol m (plural soles)

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

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

• los

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

• IPA^(key): /suːl/

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sol c

1. (often in the definite singular) sun (star the Earth revolves around)

   jorden kretsar kring solen

   the Earth revolves around the sun

2. a sun (star, especially when seen as the center of a solar system)

   Synonym: stjärna

3. sun (sunshine)

   Synonym: solsken

4. (figuratively) a sun ((person who is a) source of joy)

   solen i mitt liv

   the sun of my life

5. (music) sol