sole

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See also Sole, sołe, søle, and solę

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[edit] English

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From Middle English sole, soole, from Old English sāl (a rope, cord, line, bond, rein, door-hinge, necklace, collar), from Proto-Germanic *sailan, *sailaz (rope, cable), *sailō (noose, rein, bondage), from Proto-Indo-European *sey- (to tie to, tie together). Cognate with Scots sale, saile (halter, collar), Dutch zeel (rope, cord, strap), German Seil (rope, cable, wire), Icelandic seil (a string, line).

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sole (plural soles)

  1. (dialectal or obsolete) A wooden band or yoke put around the neck of an ox or cow in the stall.

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From Middle English, from Old English sol (mire, miry place), from Proto-Germanic *sulan (mire, wallow, mud), from Proto-Indo-European *sūl- (thick liquid). Cognate with Eastern Frisian soal (ditch), Dutch sol (water and mud filled pit), German Suhle (mire, wallow), Norwegian saula, søyla (mud puddle). More at soil.

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sole (plural soles)

  1. (dialectal, Northern England) A pond or pool; a dirty pond of standing water.

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From earlier sowle (to pull by the ear). Origin unknown. Perhaps from sow (female pig) +‎ -le, as in the phrase "take a sow by the wrong ear", or from Middle English sole (rope). See above.

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sole (third-person singular simple present soles, present participle soling, simple past and past participle soled)

  1. (transitive, UK dialectal) To pull by the ears; to pull about; haul; lug.

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From Middle English sole, soule, from Old French sol, soul (alone), from Latin sōlus (alone, single, solitary, lonely), of unknown origin. Perhaps related to Old Latin sollus (whole, complete), from Proto-Indo-European *solw-, *salw-, *slōw- (safe, healthy). More at save.

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sole (not comparable)

  1. only
  2. (law) unmarried (especially of a woman); widowed.
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[edit] Etymology 5

From Middle English sole, soole, from Old English sole, solu (shoe, sandal, sole), from Proto-Germanic *sulô, *suljō (sandal, shoe, sole), 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.

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sole (plural soles)

The male sole
  1. The bottom or plantar surface of the foot.
  2. The bottom of a shoe or boot.
  3. Solea solea, a flatfish of the family Soleidae.
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  • (bottom of the foot): planta (medical term)
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sole (third-person singular simple present soles, present participle soling, simple past and past participle soled)

  1. (transitive) to put a sole on (a shoe or boot)
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sole c.

  1. plural indefinite of sol

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sole

  1. solely

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Popular Latin *sola, from Latin solea.

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sole f. (plural soles)

  1. sole (fish)

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  • IPA: [ˈsole]

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Latin sol, solem.

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sole m. (plural soli)

  1. sun
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sole f.

  1. Feminine plural form of solo

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sole f.

  1. Plural form of sola.

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See sōl.

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sōle

  1. ablative singular of sōl

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See sōlus.

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sōle

  1. vocative masculine singular of sōlus

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Latin solus, sola

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sole m. and f. (plural soles)

  1. alone

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sole

  1. nominative plural of sól
  2. accusative plural of sól
  3. vocative plural of sól
  4. nominative plural of sola
  5. accusative plural of sola
  6. vocative plural of sola
  7. nominative plural of sol
  8. accusative plural of sol
  9. vocative plural of sol
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