solus

Etymology

From Latin sōlus.

Adjective

solus (not comparable)

1. alone, unaccompanied (as a stage direction)

Anagrams

• souls

Etymology

• Often derived from earlier *swolos, from Proto-Italic *swelos, from Proto-Indo-European *swé (reflexive pronoun) (whence se (“oneself”)) + *-los, hence meaning "by oneself";
• De Vaan refers it to *solh₂- (“whole, healthy”), which would make it akin to sollus and salvus.
• Others connect it with Proto-Germanic *sēliz (Gothic 𐍃𐌴𐌻𐍃 (sēls, “happy, good”), Old English sēlra (“better”)), from Proto-Indo-European *selh₂- (whence sōlor (“to console”)).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈsoː.lus/, [ˈs̠oːɫ̪ʊs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈso.lus/, [ˈsɔːlus]

Adjective

sōlus (feminine sōla, neuter sōlum); first/second-declension adjective (pronominal)

1. alone, sole, only, by oneself with no others around
   • 29 BCE – 19 BCE, Virgil, Aeneid 4.22-23:

     “[...] sōlus hic īnflexit sēnsūs, animumque labantem / impulit [...].”

     “[...] this [is the] only [man who] swayed [my] feelings, and stirred [my] wavering heart [...].”

2. solitary, uninhabited

References

• De Vaan, Michiel (2008) “sōlus”, in Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 573
• “solus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “solus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• solus 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)
• solus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎, London: Macmillan and Co.
  • (ambiguous) sunrise; sunset: ortus, occasus solis
    
  • (ambiguous) an eclipse of the sun: solis defectio
    
  • (ambiguous) to be dried up by the sun's heat: ardore solis torreri
    
  • (ambiguous) the east winds are blowing: venti ab ortu solis flant
    
  • (ambiguous) to be situate to the north-west: spectare inter occasum solis et septentriones
    
  • (ambiguous) Solon, one of the seven sages: Solo, unus de septem (illis)
    
  • (ambiguous) Solo ordained by law that..: Solo lege sanxit, ut or ne
    
  • (ambiguous) to leave one's country (only used of exiles): solum vertere, mutare (Caecin. 34. 100)
    
  • (ambiguous) Solon made it a capital offence to..: Solo capite sanxit, si quis... (Att. 10. 1)
    
  • (ambiguous) to raze a town to the ground: oppidum solo aequare
    
  • (ambiguous) this is as clear as daylight: hoc est luce (sole ipso) clarius
    
• “solus”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “solus”, in William Smith, editor (1854, 1857), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography, volume 1 & 2, London: Walton and Maberly

Etymology

From Old Irish solus.

Adjective

solus

1. bright
2. clear (of sound)
3. (intellectually) clear, lucid

Noun

solus m

1. light
2. clarity, intelligibility

Mutation

Further reading

• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “solus”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language

Etymology

so- +‎ lés (compare Middle Irish dolus)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈsolus/

Adjective

solus (equative soilsidir)

1. bright, clear

Mutation

Further reading

• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “solus”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language

Etymology

From Latin solus (“alone (adj.)”).

Adverb

solus

1. (obsolete, archaic) alone, by oneself

References

Hall, Robert Anderson. 1984. Proto-Romance morphology: Comparative Romance grammar. Philadelphia: John Benjamins. Page 31.