# sol
## English
### Etymology 1

From Glover's solmization, from Middle English sol (“fifth degree or note of Guido of Arezzo's hexachordal scales”), 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.

#### Pronunciation

* (Received Pronunciation) IPA: /sɒl/, /səʊl/
* Audio (Southern England):(file)
* (General American) enPR: sōl, IPA: /sɔl/, /sɑl/, /soʊl/
* Homophones: soul, sole (Canada, US)
* Rhymes: -ɒl, -əʊl

#### Noun

sol (uncountable)
* (music)
** 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,: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.]
** In a fixed-do system: the musical note G.

##### Alternative forms

* so
* soh

##### Translations
### Etymology 2

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

#### Pronunciation

* (Received Pronunciation) IPA: /sɒl/
* Audio (Southern England):(file)
* (General American) IPA: /sɔl/, /sɑl/
* Rhymes: -ɒl

#### Noun

sol (plural sols)
* (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; […]

##### Related terms

* solid
* solidus

##### Translations
### Etymology 3

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

#### Pronunciation

* (Received Pronunciation) IPA: /sɒl/
* Audio (Southern England):(file)
* (General American) IPA: /sɔl/, /sɑl/
* Rhymes: -ɒl

#### Noun

sol (plural sols or soles)
* (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.
* 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.

##### Related terms

* Sun, sun

##### Translations
### Etymology 4

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

#### Pronunciation

* (Received Pronunciation) IPA: /sɒl/
* Audio (Southern England):(file)
* (General American) IPA: /sɔl/, /sɑl/
* Rhymes: -ɒl

#### Noun

sol (plural sols)
* (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’

##### Derived terms

* tosol
* yestersol

##### Related terms

* Sol
* Sun, sun

##### Translations
### Etymology 5

Sense 1 (“type of colloid”) is derived from -sol (in words like alcosol and hydrosol), an abbreviation of solution.
Sense 2 (“solution to an objection”) is derived directly from solution.

#### Pronunciation

* (Received Pronunciation) IPA: /sɒl/
* Audio (Southern England):(file)
* (General American) IPA: /sɔl/, /sɑl/
* Rhymes: -ɒl

#### Noun

sol (plural sols)
* (physical chemistry) A type of colloid in which a solid is dispersed in a liquid.
* (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: […]]

##### Derived terms

* aerosol
* sol-gel
* solate
* solation
* solid sol

##### Translations
### References

* ↑ “sol, n.(2)”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.
* ↑ Compare “sol, n.$^2$”, in OED Online ⁠, Oxford: Oxford University Press, December 2020; “sol$^1$, n.”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.
* ↑ “sol, n.$^3$”, in OED Online ⁠, Oxford: Oxford University Press, December 2020.
* ↑ “sol, n.$^5$”, in OED Online ⁠, Oxford: Oxford University Press, June 2018; “sol$^3$, n.”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.
* ↑ “sol, n.$^7$”, in OED Online ⁠, Oxford: Oxford University Press, March 2018.
* ↑ “sol, n.$^6$”, in OED Online ⁠, Oxford: Oxford University Press, September 2018; “sol$^2$, n.”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.
* ↑ “† sol, n.$^4$”, in OED Online ⁠, Oxford: Oxford University Press, March 2021.

### Anagrams

* LOS, OLS, SLO, los'

## Asturian
### Etymology

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

### Contraction

sol m
* (West) under the
* (Center and East) on the

## Azerbaijani
### Etymology

From Proto-Turkic *sōl.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: [soɫ]
* Audio:(file)

### Noun

sol (definite accusative solu, plural sollar)
* left
    küçənin sol tərəfi ― left side of the street

#### Antonyms

* sağ

#### Derived terms

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

## Bislama
### Etymology

From English salt. Cognate with Tok Pisin sol.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈsol/
* Hyphenation: sol

### Noun

sol
* salt

#### Derived terms

* solwora

### References

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

## Catalan
### Pronunciation

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

### Etymology 1

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

#### Proper noun

sol m
* (astronomy) the Sun (the center of our solar system)

#### Noun

sol m (plural sols)
* (astronomy) sun
* (numismatics) sol (a unit of currency used in Peru)

##### Derived terms

* posta de sol
* ressol
* sol coronat
* sol ixent
* sol ponent

##### Related terms

* solar

### Etymology 2
#### Noun

sol m (plural sols)
* (music) sol (the fifth note of the diatonic scale)

### Etymology 3

Borrowed from English sol.

#### Noun

sol m (plural sols)
* (chemistry) sol (a colloid suspension of a solid in a liquid)

### Etymology 4

Inherited from Latin sōlus (“solitary”).

#### Adjective

sol (feminine sola, masculine plural sols, feminine plural soles)
* 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.
* unique

##### Derived terms

* a soles
* sol com un mussol
* sol i vern
* solament
* solet
* tot sol

##### Related terms

* soledat

### Etymology 5

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

#### Verb

sol
* third-person singular present indicative of soler

### References

* “sol” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
* “sol” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

## Chavacano
### Etymology

Inherited from Spanish sol (“sun”).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈsol/, [ˈsol]

### Noun

sol
* sun

## Crimean Tatar
### Noun

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

#### Declension
### Adjective

sol
* left

### References

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

## Czech
### Pronunciation

* IPA: [ˈsol]

### Verb

sol
* second-person singular imperative of solit

## Danish
### Etymology 1

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

#### Pronunciation

* IPA: /soːl/, [soːˀl]
* Rhymes: -oːl

#### Noun

sol c (singular definite solen, plural indefinite sole)
* sun

##### Inflection
#### Verb

sol
* imperative of sole

### Etymology 2

From Latin solūtiō (“solution”).

#### Pronunciation

* IPA: /soːl/, [soːˀl]

#### Noun

sol c (singular definite solen, plural indefinite soler)
* (chemistry) sol (solution)

##### Inflection
### Etymology 3

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

#### Pronunciation

* IPA: /sɔl/, [sʌl]

#### Noun

sol n (singular definite sollet, plural indefinite soller)
* (music) sol (note)

##### Inflection
### Further reading

* “sol” in Den Danske Ordbog

## Dutch
### Etymology

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

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /sɔl/
* Audio:(file)

### Noun

sol f (plural sollen, diminutive solletje n)
* (music, Belgium) sol (the fifth step in the solfège scale of C, preceded by fa and followed by la)

#### Derived terms

* solseutel

### Anagrams

* los

## Franco-Provençal
### Alternative forms

* souz (Old Beaujolais)
* cho, seul (Bressan)
* cheul (Fribourgeois)
* soul (Piemontais)
* seul (Valdôtain)

### Etymology

Inherited from Latin sōlus.

### Adjective

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

#### Notes

In many areas replaced with its own derivative solèt.

#### Derived terms

* solament
* solèt

### References

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

### Further information

* ALF: Atlas Linguistique de la France [Linguistic Atlas of France] – map 76: “toute seule” – on lig-tdcge.imag.fr
* Walther von Wartburg (1928–2002) “sōlus”, in Französisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch, volumes 12: Sk–š, page 78

## French
### Etymology 1

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

#### Pronunciation

* IPA: /sɔl/
* Audio (Paris):(file)
* Rhymes: -ɔl

#### Noun

sol m (plural sols)
* soil, earth
* ground
* floor

##### Derived terms

* clouer au sol
* hors-sol
* sous-sol

### Etymology 2

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

#### Pronunciation

* IPA: /sɔl/
* Audio (Paris):(file)
* Rhymes: -ɔl

#### Noun

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

##### Derived terms

* clef de sol

### Etymology 3

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

#### Pronunciation

* IPA: /sɔl/
* Audio (Paris):(file)
* Rhymes: -ɔl

#### Noun

sol m (plural sols)
* a Spanish-American gold or silver coin, now the main currency unit of Peru (also new sol), or a coin of this value

### Etymology 4

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.

#### Pronunciation

* IPA: /su/

#### Noun

sol m (plural sols)
* (archaic) sou (the feudal era coin)

### Further reading

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

## Galician
### Etymology 1

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

#### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈsol/ [ˈs̺oɫ]
* Rhymes: -ol

#### Noun

sol m (plural soles)
* sun
* sunlight
* sunny side (of a place)
    quítate do sol ― go away from sunny side
* daylight (the time between sunrise and sunset)

##### Antonyms

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

##### Derived terms

* asollar
* soán
* solaina
* solar
* solario
* soleado
* solleiro
* solloso
* solpor

### Etymology 2
#### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈsol/ [ˈs̺oɫ]
* Rhymes: -ol

#### Noun

sol m (plural soles)
* (music) sol (a musical note)
* (music) G (the musical note or key)

#### See also

* dó
* fa
* la
* mi
* re
* si
* sol

### Etymology 3

From English sol.

#### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈsɔl/ [ˈs̺ɔɫ]
* Rhymes: -ɔl

#### Noun

sol m (plural soles)
* (chemistry) sol (a colloid suspension of a solid in a liquid)

### References

* 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

## Guinea-Bissau Creole
### Etymology

From Portuguese sol. Cognate with Kabuverdianu sol.

### Noun

sol
* sun

## Hausa
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /sól/
** (Standard Kano Hausa) IPA: [sɔ́l]

### Ideophone

sol
* very white
    Synonym: fat

## Indonesian
### Pronunciation

* IPA: [ˈsɔl]
* Hyphenation: sol

### Etymology 1

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.

#### Noun

sol (plural sol-sol)
* sole (the bottom of a shoe or boot)

##### Derived terms

* bersol
* mengesol
* mengesolkan
* pengesol
* pengesolan

### Etymology 2

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.

#### Noun

sol (plural sol-sol)
* (music) sol:
** in a movable-do or tonic sol-fa system: the fifth step in a scale, preceded by fa and followed by la
** in a fixed-do system: the musical note G

### Further reading

* “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.

## Interlingua
### Noun

sol (plural soles)
* sun

### Adjective

sol (comparative plus sol, superlative le plus sol)
* alone

### Determiner

sol
* (quantifying) only

#### Derived terms

* solmente

## Italian
### Etymology 1

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

#### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈsɔl/
* Rhymes: -ɔl
* Hyphenation: sòl

#### Noun

sol m (uncountable)
* sol (a musical note)
* G (the musical note and key)

### Etymology 2

Borrowed from English sol.

#### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈsɔl/
* Rhymes: -ɔl
* Hyphenation: sòl

#### Noun

sol m (uncountable)
* sol (a type of colloid)

### Etymology 3

Borrowed from Spanish sol.

#### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈsɔl/
* Rhymes: -ɔl
* Hyphenation: sòl

#### Noun

sol m (uncountable)
* sol (a currency of Peru)
* (historical) sol (a former Spanish-American silver coin)

### Etymology 4
#### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈsol/
* Rhymes: -ol
* Hyphenation: sól

#### Noun

sol m (apocopated)
* Apocopic form of sole

### Etymology 5
#### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈsol/
* Rhymes: -ol
* Hyphenation: sól

#### Adjective

sol (apocopated)
* Apocopic form of solo

#### Adverb

sol (apocopated)
* Apocopic form of solo

### Further reading

* sol$^1$ in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana
* sol$^2$ in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana
* sol in Luciano Canepari, Dizionario di Pronuncia Italiana (DiPI)

## Kabuverdianu
### Etymology

From Portuguese sol.

### Verb

sol
* sun

## Ladino
### Noun

sol m (Hebrew spelling סול)
* sun

## Latin
### Alternative forms

* Sōl
* ☉ (alchemy)

### Etymology

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

### Pronunciation

* (Classical Latin) IPA: /ˈsoːl/, [ˈs̠oːɫ̪]
* (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA: /ˈsol/, [ˈsɔl]

### Noun

sōl m (genitive sōlis); third declension
* (astronomy, often capitalized) the Sun
* (astronomy) a sun
* (alchemy, chemistry) gold
* (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 dormiendaSuns 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].
* (mythology) See Sōl.

#### 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
** ⇒ Translingual: Solaster

### References

* ↑ Sihler, Andrew L. (1995) New Comparative Grammar of Greek and Latin, Oxford, New York: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, § 88.3c, page 84: “*suHel”
* ↑ De Vaan, Michiel (2008) “sōl, sōlis”, in Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 570

### Further reading

* 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, volumes 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.

## Lombard
### Etymology

From Latin sōl.

### Noun

sol
* sun

## Lower Sorbian
### Etymology

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

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /sɔl/

### Noun

sol f
* salt (sodium chloride)
* (chemistry) salt (a compound of an acid and a base)

#### Derived terms

* solny
* solowy

## Middle English
### Etymology

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

### Noun

sol (uncountable)
* The brightest and warmest celestial body, considered to be a planet in the Ptolemic system; the Sun (the center of our solar system).
* (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)

#### Synonyms

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

#### References

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

## Northern Kurdish
### Noun

sol f
* shoe

## Norwegian Bokmål
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /suːl/
* (Many eastern and northern dialects) IPA: [suːɽ]

### Etymology 1

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

#### Noun

sol f or m (definite singular sola or solen, indefinite plural soler, definite plural solene)
* sun
    Solen skinner.The sun is shining.

##### Derived terms

* kveldssol
* midnattssol
* solbrent
* solbrille
* solbrun
* solcelle
* solemerke
* solenergi
* solfaktor
* solfanger
* solformørkelse
* solhatt
* solhverv
* solkrem
* solkysset
* solnedgang
* soloppgang
* solrik
* solsikke
* solskinn
* solskinnsdag
* solskjerm
* Solskjær
* solslyng
* solstikk
* solstråle
* solsystem
* soltime
* solur
* solvarme
* solvegg

##### Related terms

* sole (verb)

### Etymology 2

Shortened form of Latin solūtiō

#### Noun

sol m
* solution

##### Derived terms

* aerosol

### Etymology 3
#### Verb

sol
* imperative of sole

### References

* “sol” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

## Norwegian Nynorsk
### Etymology 1

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

#### Pronunciation

* IPA: /suːl/, [suːl]
* (Many eastern and northern dialects) IPA: [suːɽ]

#### Noun

sol f (definite singular sola, indefinite plural soler, definite plural solene)
* sun
    Sola skin i dag.The sun shines today.
* sunshine
    Det er sol ute.There is sunshine outside.
* a shiningly merry girl

##### Derived terms

* sola, sole (verb)
* bisol
* det finst ingenting nytt under sola
* gluggsol
* ikkje la sola gå ned over vreiden sin
* kveldssol
* medsols
* middelsol
* midnattsol
* morgonsol
* motsols
* plass i sola
* rangsøles
* rettsøles
* skifte sol og vind
* solauge
* solbad
* solbadar
* solbakke
* solbatteri
* solblank
* solblind
* solblom
* solbrend
* solbrille
* solbær
* solcelle
* soldis
* soldogg
* soldyrkar
* soldyrking
* soldøger
* soldøgn
* solefall
* soleglad
* soleie
* soleklar
* soleksem
* solenergi
* solfaktor
* solfangar
* solfaring
* solfest
* solfjerne
* solflekk
* solformørking
* solgang
* solgeisle
* solglim
* solglime
* solgløtt
* solhall
* solhatt
* solhjul
* solhov
* solhylle
* solhøgd
* solklar
* solkomme
* solkors
* solkrem
* solkross
* solkverv
* sollaus
* solliv
* sollys
* solmei
* solmerke
* solmogen
* solmørke
* solmørking
* solnedgang
* soloppgang
* solregn
* solrenning
* solrev
* solrik
* solsegl
* solsetting
* solside
* solskin
* solskive
* solskjerm
* solskugge
* solsky
* solslyng
* solsmak
* solsnu
* solsprett
* solspretting
* solsteik
* solstikk
* solsting
* solstorm
* solstreif
* solstråle
* solsvidd
* solsystem
* soltak
* soltid
* soltilbedar
* soltørk
* soltørke
* soltørking
* solur
* solvarm
* solvarme
* solveg
* solvende
* solvendel
* solvending
* solvind
* solår
* sommarsol
* vêrsol
* vintersol

##### Related terms

* helio-
* solar
* solarium
* solsikke

### Etymology 2

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.

#### Alternative forms

* so (an open syllable variant)

#### Pronunciation

* IPA: /sɔːl/
* Homophone: sål

#### Noun

sol m (definite singular sol-en, indefinite plural sol-ar, definite plural sol-ane)
* (music) sol (a syllable used in solfège to represent the fifth note of a major scale)

##### Coordinate terms

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

### Etymology 3

Shortened form of Latin solūtiō.

#### Noun

sol m
* solution

##### Derived terms

* aerosol

### Etymology 4

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).

#### Noun

sol m (plural solen)
* 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.
* (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.

### Etymology 5
#### Noun

sol n (definite singular solet, indefinite plural sol, definite plural sola)
* alternative spelling of sòl

### References

* “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

### Anagrams

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

## Old English
### Etymology 1

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

#### Pronunciation

* IPA: /soːl/

#### Noun

sōl ?
* sun
* the Sun

##### Usage notes

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

##### Synonyms

* siġel
* sunne
* sweġel
* sweġl

### Etymology 2

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.

#### Pronunciation

* IPA: /sol/

#### Noun

sol n
* mud, wet sand, mire
* wallowing-place, slough, miry-place

##### Declension

Strong a-stem:

##### Related terms

* solian
* solmonaþ
* solu
* sylen
* sylian
* sylu

##### Descendants

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

#### Adjective

sol
* dark, dirty, soiled

##### Descendants

* Middle English: sol, sole

## Old French
### Etymology 1

Inherited from Latin sōlus.

#### Alternative forms

* seul, soul, sul

#### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈsou̯l/

#### Adjective

sol m (oblique and nominative feminine singular sole)
* alone

##### Derived terms

* solement

##### Descendants

* French: seul
* → English: sole

### Etymology 2

Inherited from Latin solidus.

#### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈsɔl/

#### Noun

sol oblique singular, m (oblique plural sous or sox or sols, nominative singular sous or sox or sols, nominative plural sol)
* sol (an Old French coin)

##### Descendants

* French: sou
* → English: sol

## Old Galician-Portuguese
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈsɔl/

### Etymology 1

From Latin sōlus (“alone”).

#### Adverb

sol
* only; just; no more than

##### Derived terms

* sol non
* sol que

##### Related terms

* soo

### Etymology 2

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

#### Noun

sol m (plural sols)
* 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.

##### Descendants

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

### Etymology 3
#### Verb

sol
* third-person singular present indicative of soer

## Old Occitan
### Etymology

From Latin sōl.

### Proper noun

sol m
* Sun (celestial object)

#### Related terms

* solelh

### References

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

## Old Swedish
### Etymology

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

### Noun

sōl f
* sun

#### Descendants

* Swedish: sol

## Piedmontese
### Etymology

From Latin sōl.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /sul/

### Noun

sol m
* sun

## Portuguese
### Pronunciation

* (Brazil) IPA: /ˈsɔw/ [ˈsɔʊ̯]
* (Portugal) IPA: /ˈsɔl/ [ˈsɔɫ]
* (Portugal) IPA: /ˈsɔl/ [ˈsɔɫ]
** (Southern Portugal) IPA: /ˈsɔ.li/
* Rhymes: (Portugal) -ɔl, (Brazil) -ɔw
* Homophone: Sol
* Hyphenation: sol

### Etymology 1

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

#### Noun

sol m (plural sóis)
* sun (a star, especially when seen as the centre of any single solar system)
* sunshine (a location on which the sun's rays fall)
* (uncountable) weather (the state of the atmosphere at a specific time and place)
    O sol frio de inverno.Winter's cold weather.

##### Derived terms

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

##### Descendants

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

### Etymology 2

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

#### Noun

sol m (plural sóis)
* sol (a musical note)

### Etymology 3

From English sol.

#### Noun

sol m (plural sóis)
* (chemistry, physics) sol (a colloid suspension of a solid in a liquid)

### Further reading

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

## Romanian
### Etymology 1

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

#### Noun

sol n (plural soluri)
* the lowest part of something; bottom, ground, base, foundation, bed
* the floor or pavement of a room
* ground, earth, land, soil
* (gymnastics) an event performed on a floor-like carpeted surface

##### Declension
### Etymology 2

From Proto-Slavic *sъlъ, compare Slovene sel.

#### Noun

sol m (plural soli)
* messenger
* envoy

##### Declension
### Further reading

* sol in DEX online—Dicționare ale limbii române (Dictionaries of the Romanian language)

## Serbo-Croatian
### Alternative forms

* (Bosnian, Montenegrin, Serbian): sȏ

### Etymology

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

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /sôːl/

### Noun

sȏl f (Cyrillic spelling со̑л)
* (Croatia) salt

#### Declension
## Slovene
### Etymology

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

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /sóːʋ/
* Audio:(file)

### Noun

sọ̑ł f
* salt (a common substance)

#### Inflection
### Further reading

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

## Spanish
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈsol/ [ˈsol]
* Audio (Spain):(file)
* Audio (Germany):(file)
* Rhymes: -ol
* Syllabification: sol

### Etymology 1

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.

#### Noun

sol m (plural soles)
* sun
* sunlight
* sunny side (of a place)
    Antonym: sombra
    quítate del sol ― get out of the sun
* daylight (the time between sunrise and sunset)
    Antonym: noche
* sol (a unit of currency, currently used in Peru)

##### Derived terms

* a la caída del sol
* anteojos de sol
* asolar
* asolear
* clave de sol
* de sol a sol
* gafas de sol
* hacer brindis al sol
* mijo del sol
* parasol
* perca sol
* puesta de sol
* reloj de sol
* rocío del sol
* sacar los trapitos al sol
* salga el sol por Antequera
* salga el sol por donde quiera
* ser un sol
* sol de justicia
* Sol de Mayo
* sol y sombra
* solana
* soleado
* tendido de sol
* tomar el sol

##### Related terms

* solar
* solárium

### Etymology 2

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

#### Noun

sol m (uncountable)
* sol (a musical note)

### Etymology 3

Borrowed from English sol.

#### Noun

sol m (plural soles)
* (chemistry) sol (a colloid suspension of a solid in a liquid)

### Further reading

* “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], 2024 December 10

### Anagrams

* los

## Swedish
### Etymology

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

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /suːl/
* Audio:(file)

### Noun

sol c
* (often in the definite singular) sun (star the Earth revolves around)
    jorden kretsar kring solenthe Earth revolves around the sun
* a sun (star, especially when seen as the center of a solar system)
    Synonym: stjärna
* sun (sunshine)
    Synonym: solsken
* (figuratively) a sun ((person who is a) source of joy)
    solen i mitt livthe sun of my life
* (music) sol

#### Derived terms

* aftonsol
* bisol
* höstsol
* kvällssol
* middsagssol
* midnattssol (“midnight sun”)
* morgonsol
* sol och vår
* sol-och-vår-man
* sol-och-våra
* sol-och-vårare
* sola (“to sunbathe”)
* solarisk
* solarium (“solarium”)
* solarplexus
* solbad
* solbada
* solbadare (“sunbather”)
* solbadd
* solbana
* solbatteri
* solbelyst
* solbestrålning
* solblank
* solblekt
* solblind
* solbländad
* solblänk
* solbrillor
* solbrynt
* solbränd
* solbränna (“sunburn, suntan”)
* solcell (“solar cell”)
* solchans
* solcykel
* soldag
* soldis
* soldriven
* soldrucken
* soldräkt
* soldränkt
* soldyrkan
* soldyrkare
* soldäck
* soleksem
* solenergi
* solfattig
* solfjäder (“fan”)
* solflimmer
* solfläck
* solflöde
* solfångare (“solar thermal collector”)
* solförmörkelse (“solar eclipse”)
* solgass
* solgassig
* solgata
* solglasögon (“sunglasses”)
* solglimt
* solglitter
* solglänsande
* solgud
* solgul
* solgård
* solhatt
* solhet
* solhetta
* solhjul
* solhjälm
* solhöjd
* solig (“sunny”)
* solinstrålning
* solkanon
* solkatt
* solklar
* solklänning
* solkraft
* solkräm
* solkult
* solkurva
* solliv
* solljus (“sunlight; sun”)
* sollös
* solmogen
* solmättad
* solnedgång (“sunset”)
* solning
* solochvåra
* solochvårare
* solochvårman
* sololja
* solpanel
* solparasoll
* solreflex
* solregn
* solros (“sunflower”)
* solrök
* solsemester
* solsida
* solsken
* solskiva
* solskott
* solskydd
* solsnibb
* solstek
* solstekt
* solsting
* solstol
* solstrimma
* solstråle (“ray of sunlight”)
* solstrålning
* solstånd
* solsystem (“solar system”)
* solsäng
* soltak
* soltempel
* solterrass
* soltimma
* soltimme
* soltorka
* soltorkning
* soltält
* soltörstande
* soluppgång (“sunrise”)
* solur
* solvarg
* solvarm
* solvarv
* solventil
* solvind (“solar wind”)
* solvisare
* solvända
* solvärmd
* solvärme
* solår
* solöga
* sommarsolstånd
* vintersolstånd
* vädersol

### References

* sol in Svensk ordbok (SO)
* sol in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
* sol in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)

### Anagrams

* los

## Talysh
### Etymology

Cognate with Persian سال (sāl).

### Noun

sol
* year

## Tok Pisin
### Etymology 1

From English shoulder.

#### Noun

sol
* (anatomy) shoulder

### Etymology 2

From English salt.

#### Noun

sol
* salt

##### Derived terms

* solwara (“sea, ocean; saltwater, brine”)

## Turkish
### Etymology 1

From Ottoman Turkish صول (sol, “left”), from Proto-Turkic *sōl.

#### Pronunciation

* IPA: [soɫ]
* Hyphenation: sol
* Audio:(file)

#### Noun

sol (definite accusative solu, plural sollar)
* left

##### Antonyms

* sağ

### Etymology 2
#### Verb

sol
* second-person singular imperative of solmak

### Etymology 3

From French sol.

#### Pronunciation

* IPA: [sol]

#### Noun

sol (definite accusative solü, plural soller)
* (music) sol

## Veps
### Etymology

From Proto-Finnic *soola.

### Noun

sol
* salt

#### Declension
## Volapük
### Noun

sol (nominative plural sols)
* sun

#### Declension

$^1$ status as a case is disputed $^2$ in later, non-classical Volapük only

## Zazaki
### Etymology

Ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *séh₂ls (“salt”).

### Noun

sol
* salt