Solon

See also: solon, Sólon, and Solón

English

Etymology

From Ancient Greek Σόλων (Sólōn).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈsəʊlən/, /ˈsoʊlɒn/
• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈsoʊlən/, /ˈsoʊlɒn/
• Rhymes: -əʊlɒn

Proper noun

Solon

1. An ancient Athenian statesman and lawgiver, one of the Seven Sages (c.630-c.560 BC).
   • 1820, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Oedipus Tyrannus; Or, Swellfoot The Tyrant: A Tragedy in Two Acts:

     Now if your Majesty would have our bristles
     To bind your mortar with, or fill our colons
     With rich blood, or make brawn out of our gristles,
     In policy—ask else your royal Solons—
     You ought to give us hog-wash and clean straw,
     And sties well thatched; besides it is the law!

2. A city in Iowa.
3. A town in Maine.
4. A town in New York.
5. A city in Ohio.

Derived terms

• solon

Translations

statesman and lawgiver

• Armenian: Սոլոն (Solon)

  Old Armenian: Սողոն (Sołon)

• Catalan: Soló m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 梭倫／梭伦 (Suōlún)

• Georgian: სოლონი (soloni)
• Greek:

  Ancient: Σόλων m (Sólōn)

• Icelandic: Sólon (is) m
• Italian: Solone m
• Japanese: ソロン
• Persian: سولون (solon)
• Polish: Solon (pl) m
• Portuguese: Sólon m
• Russian: Соло́н (ru) m (Solón)
• Spanish: Solón (es) m

Anagrams

• Olson, loons, snool

Cebuano

Proper noun

Solon

1. a surname

Quotations

For quotations using this term, see Citations:Solon.

Latin

Alternative forms

• Solō

Etymology

Borrowed from Ancient Greek Σόλων (Sólōn).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈso.loːn/, [ˈs̠ɔɫ̪oːn]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈso.lon/, [ˈsɔːlon]

Proper noun

Solōn m sg (genitive Solōnis); third declension

1. Solon (legislator of Athens)

Declension

Third-declension noun, singular only.

Case	Singular
Nominative	Solōn
Genitive	Solōnis
Dative	Solōnī
Accusative	Solōnem
Ablative	Solōne
Vocative	Solōn

Descendants

• Italian: Solone

References

• “Solon”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• Solon in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.

Polish

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Ancient Greek Σόλων (Sólōn).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈsɔ.lɔn/

• Audio:

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• Rhymes: -ɔlɔn
• Syllabification: So‧lon

Proper noun

Solon m pers

1. (law, politics) Solon (statesman and lawgiver)

Declension

Declension of Solon

	singular
nominative	Solon
genitive	Solona
dative	Solonowi
accusative	Solona
instrumental	Solonem
locative	Solonie
vocative	Solonie

Further reading

• Solon in Polish dictionaries at PWN