sole
English
Pronunciation
- enPR: sōl
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- Rhymes: -əʊl
- Homophones: Seoul, soul, sowl
Etymology 1
From Middle English sole, soule, from Old French sol, soul (“alone”), from Latin sōlus (“alone, single, solitary, lonely”). Ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *swé (reflexive pronoun). Perhaps related to Old Latin sollus (“whole, complete”), from Proto-Indo-European *solh₂- (“safe, healthy”). More at save.
Adjective
sole (not comparable)
- Only.
- Synonyms: see Thesaurus:sole
- 1905, H. G. Wells, The Empire of the Ants
- He saw now clearly that the sole crew of the vessel was these two dead men, and though he could not see their faces, he saw by their outstretched hands, which were all of ragged flesh, that they had been subjected to some strange exceptional process of decay.
- (law) Unmarried (especially of a woman); widowed.
- Synonym: lone
- Unique; unsurpassed.
- The sole brilliance of this gem.
- With independent power; unfettered.
- A sole authority.
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Etymology 2
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.
Alternative forms
Noun
sole (plural soles)
- (anatomy) The bottom or plantar surface of the foot.
- Synonym: (medical term) planta
- (footwear) The bottom of a shoe or boot.
- 1727, John Arbuthnot, Tables of Ancient Coins, Weights and Measures. Explain'd and exemplify'd in several dissertations, page 147:
- The Caliga was a military Shoe, with a very thick Sole, tied above the instep with leather Thongs.
- (obsolete) The foot itself.
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book I, Canto X”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, stanza 9:
- Hast wandred through the world now long a day;Yet ceasest not thy wearie soles to lead
- 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Genesis 8:9:
- But the doue found no rest for the sole of her foote, and she returned vnto him into the Arke: […]
- (zoology) Solea solea, a flatfish of the family Soleidae.
- 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.
- The bottom of a furrow.
- The end section of the chanter of a set of bagpipes.
- The horny substance under a horse's foot, which protects the more tender parts.
- Coordinate term: frog
- (military) The bottom of an embrasure.
- (nautical) A piece of timber attached to the lower part of the rudder, to make it even with the false keel.
- 1842, The Nautical Magazine:
- The rudder remains to be repaired, and is unshipped for the purpose; the sole of it is entirely gone
- (nautical) The floor inside the cabin of a yacht or boat
- (mining) The seat or bottom of a mine; applied to horizontal veins or lodes.
Derived terms
Descendants
- → Hebrew: סוֹל (sol)
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Verb
sole (third-person singular simple present soles, present participle soling, simple past and past participle soled)
- (transitive) to put a sole on (a shoe or boot)
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Etymology 3
From Middle English sole, soole, from Old English sāl (“a rope, cord, line, bond, rein, door-hinge, necklace, collar”), from Proto-Germanic *sailą, *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”). Non-Germanic cognates include Albanian dell (“sinew, vein”).
Noun
sole (plural soles)
Etymology 4
From Middle English sol, from Old English sol (“mire, miry place”), from Proto-Germanic *sulą (“mire, wallow, mud”), from Proto-Indo-European *sūl- (“thick liquid”). Cognate with Saterland Frisian soal (“ditch”), Dutch sol (“water and mud filled pit”), German Suhle (“mire, wallow”), Norwegian saula, søyla (“mud puddle”). More at soil.
Alternative forms
Noun
sole (plural soles)
- (dialectal, Northern England) A pond or pool; a dirty pond of standing water.
Etymology 5
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.
Alternative forms
Verb
sole (third-person singular simple present soles, present participle soling, simple past and past participle soled)
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Czech
Pronunciation
Verb
sole
Danish
Noun
sole c
Esperanto
Pronunciation
Adverb
sole
Related terms
French
Etymology
From Vulgar Latin *sola, from Latin solea.
Pronunciation
Noun
sole f (plural soles)
- (zoology) sole (fish)
- sole, the bottom of a hoof
- (carpentry) sole, a piece of timber, a joist
- (agriculture) a piece of land devoted to crop rotation
Derived terms
Further reading
- “sole”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Italian
Pronunciation
Etymology 1
From Sole, from Latin sōlem, accusative case of sōl, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *sóh₂wl̥.
Cognates include Greek ήλιος (ílios), Icelandic sól, Hindi सूर्य (sūrya), and Russian со́лнце (sólnce).
Noun
sole m (plural soli)
- (colloquial, astronomy) star (for extension of Sole)
- Synonym: stella
- (heraldry) sun (a star in heraldry)
- (alchemy) gold
- Synonym: oro
- sunlight
- 1807, Ugo Foscolo, Dei Sepolcri[1], Molini, Landi e comp., published 1809, page 20:
- E tu onore di pianti, Ettore, avrai ¶ […] finché il Sole ¶ Risplenderà sulle sciagure umane.
- And you, Hector, will be honored with cryings ¶ […] as long as the Sun ¶ will shine on the misfortunes of mankind.
- (poetic) daytime, day (the interval between sunrise and sunset)
- 1504, Jacopo Sannazaro, Arcadia:
- quattro soli e altretante lune il mio corpo né da cibo né da sonno fu riconfortato
- for four days and as many nights, my body hadn't been comforted by either food or sleep
- 1516, Ludovico Ariosto, Orlando Furioso [Raging Roland][2], Venice: Printed by Gabriel Giolito, published 1551, Canto XXXV, page 164:
- Poi diſſe andiamo; e nel ſeguente ſole ¶ Giunſero al fiume
- He then said "Let us go"; and in the following day ¶ they reached the river
- 1581, Torquato Tasso, Gerusalemme liberata [Jerusalem Delivered][3], Erasmo Viotti, Canto XIX, page 441:
- Goffredo alloggia ne la Terra: e vuole ¶ Rinouar poi l'aſſalto al nouo Sole
- Within the land Godfrey would lodge that night, ¶ and with the day renew the assault and fight.
- 1825, Vincenzo Monti, transl., Iliade [Iliad][4], Milan: Giovanni Resnati e Gius. Bernardoni di Gio, translation of Ἰλιάς (Iliás) by Homer, published 1840, Book XIX, page 424:
- Intero un sole al lagrimar si doni; ¶ Poi con coraggio, chi morì s'intombi
- Let an entire day be dedicated to the mourning; ¶ then with bravery, let us bury those who died
- (poetic) year
- 1321, Dante Alighieri, La divina commedia: Inferno [The Divine Comedy: Hell], 12th edition (paperback), Le Monnier, published 1994, Canto VI, page 94, lines 67–69:
- Poi appresso convien che questa caggia ¶ infra tre soli, e che l'altra sormonti ¶ con la forza di tal che testé piaggia.
- Then afterwards behoves it this one fall ¶ within three suns, and rise again the other ¶ by force of him who now is on the coast.
- (poetic, in the plural) eyes
- 1516, Ludovico Ariosto, Orlando Furioso [Raging Roland][5], Venice: Printed by Gabriel Giolito, published 1551, Canto VII, page 26:
- Sotto duo negri e ſottilisſimi archi ¶ Son duo negri occhi, anzi duo chiari Soli
- Below two thin, black eyebrows ¶ are two black eyes; nay, two bright suns
Related terms
See also
References
- sole in Dizionario Italiano Olivetti, Olivetti Media Communication
- sole in Collins Italian-English Dictionary
Further reading
- sole on the Italian Wikipedia.Wikipedia it
Etymology 2
See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
Adjective
sole
Noun
sole f
Anagrams
Latin
Etymology 1
See sōl.
Pronunciation
- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /ˈsoː.le/, [ˈs̠oːɫ̪ɛ]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈso.le/, [ˈsɔːle]
Noun
(deprecated template usage) sōle
Etymology 2
See sōlus.
Pronunciation
- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /ˈsoː.le/, [ˈs̠oːɫ̪ɛ]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈso.le/, [ˈsɔːle]
Adjective
(deprecated template usage) sōle
Neapolitan
Etymology
Pronunciation
Noun
sole m
- Sun
- Steva chiuvenno, po' è asciuto 'o sole. ― It was raining, then the sun came out.
Norman
Etymology
From Vulgar Latin *sola, from Latin solea.
Noun
sole f (plural soles)
- sole (fish)
Norwegian Bokmål
Etymology
Probably from the noun sol
Verb
sole (imperative sol, present tense soler, passive -, simple past sola or solet or solte, past participle sola or solet or solt, present participle solende)
- (reflexive, sole seg) to sunbathe, sun oneself, bask (also figurative)
References
- “sole” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
Norwegian Nynorsk
Pronunciation
Etymology 1
From Old Norse sóli m, from Latin solum (“bottom, ground”).
Noun
sole m (definite singular solen, indefinite plural solar, definite plural solane)
- (anatomy) a sole (bottom or plantar surface of the foot)
- (footwear) a sole (bottom of a shoe or boot)
Derived terms
Verb
sole (present tense solar, past tense sola, past participle sola, passive infinitive solast, present participle solande, imperative sole/sol)
- to apply a sole to footwear
Alternative forms
- sola (a-infinitive)
Derived terms
- soling f
See also
- såle (Bokmål)
Etymology 2
From the noun sol f (“sun”).
Alternative forms
- sola (a-infinitive)
Verb
sole (present tense solar, past tense sola, past participle sola, passive infinitive solast, present participle solande, imperative sole/sol)
- (reflexive) to sunbathe
- (reflexive, figurative) to bask
- (transitive) to expose to the sun
Derived terms
- soling f
References
- “sole” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
Anagrams
Old English
Alternative forms
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin solea, from solum (“bottom, base”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *swol-.
Noun
sole f
Declension
Descendants
References
- Joseph Bosworth and T. Northcote Toller (1898) “sole”, in An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary[6], 2nd edition, Oxford: Oxford University Press.
- John R. Clark Hall (1916) “sole”, in A Concise Anglo-Saxon Dictionary[7], 2nd edition, New York: Macmillan
Old French
Adjective
sole f
Polish
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Noun
sole
Noun
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Portuguese
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Serbo-Croatian
Verb
sole (Cyrillic spelling соле)
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