sol

Pronunciation

• (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

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.
      • 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.

Pronunciation

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

• Audio (Southern England):

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• (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.
   • 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; […]

Pronunciation

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

• Audio (Southern England):

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

Noun

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.

Pronunciation

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

• Audio (Southern England):

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• (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).
   • 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’

Pronunciation

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

• Audio (Southern England):

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• (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.
   • 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: […]]

Declension

Antonyms

• sağ

Derived terms

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

Derived terms

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)

Noun

sol m (plural sols)

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

Noun

sol m (plural sols)

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

Adjective

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

1. alone (by oneself, solitary)
   • 2020 March 12, María José Gómez, Time Out Barcelona‎, 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

Verb

sol

1. third-person singular present indicative of soler

Declension

Pronunciation

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

Noun

sol c (singular definite solen, plural indefinite sole)

1. sun

Verb

sol

1. imperative of sole

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /soːl/, [soːˀl]

Noun

sol c (singular definite solen, plural indefinite soler)

1. (chemistry) sol (solution)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sɔl/, [sʌl]

Noun

sol n (singular definite sollet, plural indefinite soller)

1. (music) sol (note)

Derived terms

• solseutel

Notes

In many areas replaced with its own derivative solèt.

Derived terms

• solament
• solèt

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sɔl/

• Audio (Paris):

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• Rhymes: -ɔl

Noun

sol m (plural sols)

1. soil, earth
2. ground
3. floor

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sɔl/

• Audio (Paris):

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• 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)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sɔl/

• Audio (Paris):

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• 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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /su/

Noun

sol m (plural sols)

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

Pronunciation

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

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)

Pronunciation

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

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)}

Pronunciation

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

Noun

sol m (plural soles)

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

Noun

sol (plural sol-sol)

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

Noun

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.

Derived terms

• solmente

Pronunciation

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

Noun

sol m (uncountable)

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

Pronunciation

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

Noun

sol m (uncountable)

1. sol (a type of colloid)

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)

Pronunciation

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

Noun

sol m (apocopated)

1. Apocopic form of sole

Pronunciation

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

Adjective

sol (apocopated)

1. Apocopic form of solo

Adverb

sol (apocopated)

1. Apocopic form of solo

Declension

Third-declension noun.

Derived terms

• sōlāris

Descendants

• Insular Romance:
  • Sardinian: sole, sobi, soi, soli
• Balkan Romance:
  • Aromanian: soari
  • Istro-Romanian: sore
  • Megleno-Romanian: soari
  • Romanian: soare
• Italo-Dalmatian:
  • Corsican: soli

    Gallurese: soli

    Sassarese: sori

  • Dalmatian: saul
  • Istriot: sul
  • Italian: sole
  • Neapolitan: sole

    Tarantino: sole

  • Sicilian: suli
  • Venetan: sołe
• Gallo-Italic:
  • Emilian: sôl, soul, saul
  • Ligurian: sô
  • Lombard: sol, so
  • Piedmontese: sol, so
  • Romagnol: sól
• 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

Declension

Derived terms

• solny
• solowy

Synonyms

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

References

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

Noun

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

1. sun

   Solen skinner.

   The sun is shining.

Noun

sol m

1. solution

Verb

sol

1. imperative of sole

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

   Sola skin i dag.

   The sun shines today.

3. sunshine

   Det er sol ute.

   There is sunshine outside.

4. a shiningly merry girl

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)

Noun

sol m

1. solution

Noun

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.

Noun

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

1. alternative spelling of sòl

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /soːl/

Noun

sōl ?

1. sun
2. the Sun

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sol/

Noun

sol n

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

Adjective

sol

1. dark, dirty, soiled

Alternative forms

• seul, soul, sul

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈsou̯l/

Adjective

sol m (oblique and nominative feminine singular sole)

1. alone

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)

Adverb

sol

1. only; just; no more than

Noun

sol m (plural sols)

1. sun
   • 13th century CE, 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.

Verb

sol

1. third-person singular present indicative of soer

Related terms

• solelh