# soto
## English
### Etymology

From Indonesian soto, ultimately from Hokkien 牛草肚 (gû-chháu-tō͘).

### Noun

soto (countable and uncountable, plural sotos)
* (cooking) A traditional Indonesian soup mainly composed of broth, meat, and vegetables

### Anagrams

* Toso, soot, otos, Oost, OOTS

## Galician
### Etymology

From the Medieval Galician form sotõo; probably from Vulgar Latin *subtulum, from Latin subtus. Cognate with Portuguese sótão (“attic”) and Spanish sótano (“cellar”).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈsoto/ [ˈs̺o.t̪ʊ]
* Rhymes: -oto
* Hyphenation: so‧to

### Noun

soto m (plural sotos)
* cellar
    Synonym: adega
* (archaic) ground floor
** 1395, Miguel González Garcés, editor, Historia de La Coruña. Edad Media, A Coruña: Caixa Galicia, page 557:se alguas seeteyras ou lançeyros estan feytas en a parede da dicta casa, que as çarren de pedra et que as non abran nunca nen façan y outras alguas a saluo fique en o sotoo da dicta casa as lumeeyras que foren neçesarias et perteesçentes para dar lume ao dicto sotoo que non seian por maneyra de defensa alguaif some arrowslits or embrasures are built in the walls of that tower house, they must be closed in stone, never to be reopened, and they shouldn't build new ones, with this exception, that in the ground floor there should be enough and sufficient skylights for lightening the aforementioned ground floor, but as long as they can't be used for defense
** 1429, M. Lucas Alvarez & M. J. Justo Martín (eds.), Fontes documentais da Universidade de Santiago de Compostela. Pergameos da serie Bens do Arquivo Histórico Universitario (Anos 1237-1537). Santiago: Consello da Cultura Galega, page 307:
    todâ â casa, sotôô e sobrado que vos e os ditos vosos yrmâôs auedes
       the whole house, ground and upper floor, that you and your brothers have
    Synonym: baixo

### References

* Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, Ana Isabel Boullón Agrelo (2006–2022) “sotõo”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
* Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “sotão”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
* Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “sotõo”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
* Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “sotôô”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
* Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “soto”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
* Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “soto”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
* Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, editors (2003–2018), “soto”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega

## Indonesian
### Alternative forms

* saoto

### Etymology

From ellipsis of Hokkien 牛草肚 (gû-chháu-tō͘, “beef tripe; rumen”). Compare Tagalog goto.

### Pronunciation

* (Standard Indonesian) IPA: /ˈsoto/ [ˈso.t̪o]
* Rhymes: -oto
* Syllabification: so‧to

### Noun

soto (plural soto-soto)
* (cooking) a kind of soup, whose taste depends on the ingredients of the whole dish.

### Further reading

* “soto” 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.
* 小川尚義 (OGAWA Naoyoshi), editor (1931–1932), “牛草肚”, in 臺日大辭典 [Taiwanese-Japanese Dictionary]‎ (overall work in Hokkien and Japanese), Taihoku: Government-General of Taiwan, →OCLC, page 395

## Japanese
### Romanization

soto
* Rōmaji transcription of そと

## Javanese
### Romanization

soto
* Romanization of ꦱꦺꦴꦠꦺꦴ
* (nonstandard) Romanization of ꦱꦠ (sata)

## Pali
### Alternative forms

* 𑀲𑁄𑀢𑁄 (Brahmi script)
* सोतो (Devanagari script)
* সোতো (Bengali script)
* සොතො (Sinhalese script)
* သောတော or သေႃတေႃ (Burmese script)
* โสโต (Thai script)
* ᩈᩮᩣᨲᩮᩣ (Tai Tham script)
* ໂສໂຕ (Lao script)
* សោតោ (Khmer script)
* 𑄥𑄮𑄖𑄮 (Chakma script)

### Noun

soto
* nominative/vocative/accusative singular of sotas

## Spanish
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈsoto/ [ˈso.t̪o]
* Rhymes: -oto
* Syllabification: so‧to

### Etymology 1

Inherited from Latin saltus (“forest or mountain pasture”).

#### Noun

soto m (plural sotos)
* grove; copse
    Synonyms: bosquecillo, espesura, matorral, arboleda

### Etymology 2
#### Verb

soto
* first-person singular present indicative of sotar

### Further reading

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