sole
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: sōl
ipa: /səʊl/
ipa: [sɒʊɫ]
ipa: /soʊl/
ipa: /səʉl/
ipa: [sɔʊɫ]
ipa: /sɐʉl/
ipa: [sɒʊɫ]
ipa: [sɔːɫ]
note: Indic
ipa: /soːl/
rhymes: -əʊl
homophone: Seoul
homophone: (toe–tow merger) soul
homophone: sowl
Forms: form: soles
form: soal
Etymology: From Middle English sole, soole, from Old English sole, solu. Reinforced by Anglo-Norman sole, Old French 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”). Cognate with Dutch zool (“sole, tread”), German Sohle (“sole, insole, bottom, floor”), Danish sål (“sole”), Icelandic sóli (“sole, outsole”), Gothic 𐍃𐌿𐌻𐌾𐌰 (sulja, “sandal”). Related to Latin solum (“bottom, ground, soil”). More at soil.
Compare typologically Russian по́чва (póčva) akin to подо́шва (podóšva).
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
synonyms: word: planta
english: medical term
translation: medical term
glosses: The bottom or plantar surface of the foot.
examples: text: The Caliga was a military Shoe, with a very thick Sole, tied above the instep with leather Thongs.
ref: 1727, John Arbuthnot, Tables of Ancient Coins, Weights and Measures. Explain'd and exemplify'd in several dissertations, page 147:
qualifier: footwear
glosses: The bottom of a shoe or boot.
examples: text: Hast wandred through the world now long a day;Yet ceasest not thy wearie soles to lead
ref: 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book I, Canto X”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, stanza 9:
text: But the doue found no rest for the sole of her foote, and she returned vnto him into the Arke: […]
ref: 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Genesis 8:9:
glosses: The foot itself.
examples: text: The fishermen crowding in the cafés were also waiting for the end of the storm, when the fish, reassured, would rise to the surface after the bait. Soles, hog fish and skate were returning from their nocturnal expeditions. Day was now breaking.
ref: 1952, Nikos Kazantzakis, chapter 1, in Carl Wildman, transl., Zorba the Greek, New York, N.Y.: Simon & Schuster, translation of Βίος και πολιτεία του Αλέξη Ζορμπά [Víos kai politeía tou Aléxi Zormpá], →ISBN, page 3:
roman: Víos kai politeía tou Aléxi Zormpá
topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: Solea solea, a flatfish of the family Soleidae; a true sole.
glosses: A flatfish resembling those of the family Soleidae.
glosses: The bottom or lower part of anything, or that on which anything rests in standing.
The bottom of the body of a plough; the slade.
glosses: The bottom or lower part of anything, or that on which anything rests in standing.
The bottom of a furrow.
glosses: The bottom or lower part of anything, or that on which anything rests in standing.
The end section of the chanter of a set of bagpipes.
glosses: The bottom or lower part of anything, or that on which anything rests in standing.
The horny substance under a horse's foot, which protects the more tender parts.
coordinate_terms: frog
topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: The bottom or lower part of anything, or that on which anything rests in standing.
The bottom of an embrasure.
examples: text: The rudder remains to be repaired, and is unshipped for the purpose; the sole of it is entirely gone
ref: 1842, The Nautical Magazine:
topics: nautical
transport
glosses: The bottom or lower part of anything, or that on which anything rests in standing.
A piece of timber attached to the lower part of the rudder, to make it even with the false keel.
topics: nautical
transport
glosses: The bottom or lower part of anything, or that on which anything rests in standing.
The floor inside the cabin of a yacht or boat
topics: business
mining
glosses: The seat or bottom of a mine; applied to horizontal veins or lodes.
Derived terms: taxonomic: Achiridae spp.
word: American sole
taxonomic: Solea solea
word: black sole
taxonomic: Achirus klunzingeri
word: brown sole
taxonomic: Solea solea
word: common sole
taxonomic: Lepidorhombus whiffiagonis
word: Cornish sole
taxonomic: Solea solea
word: Dover sole
taxonomic: Achirus achirus
word: drab sole
word: finless sole
taxonomic: Microstomus kitt
word: French sole
alt: Gymnachirus texae
word: fringed sole
word: gray sole
taxonomic: Glyptocephalus cynoglossus
word: grey sole
word: half sole
word: insole
taxonomic: Microstomus kitt
word: lemon sole
taxonomic: Achirus lineatus
word: lined sole
taxonomic: Achirus mazatlanus
word: Mazatlan sole
word: midsole
word: Moses sole Pardachirus marmoratus
taxonomic: Achirus scutum
word: network sole
word: outsole
word: Panama sole
alt: Eopsetta jordani
word: petrale sole
english: Lepidorhombus
translation: Lepidorhombus
word: smooth sole
word: soleless
word: sole-like
taxonomic: Cynoglossidae spp.
word: tongue sole
taxonomic: Glyptocephalus cynoglossus
word: Torbay sole
taxonomic: Soleidae spp.
word: true sole
taxonomic: Aseraggodes albidus
word: white sole
taxonomic: Limanda aspera
word: yellowfin sole