Sol

See also: sol and Appendix:Variations of "sol"

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sɒl/
• IPA^(key): /soʊl/
• (US only, and Estuary English) Homophones: sole, soul

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Latin sōl.

Proper noun

Sol

1. (poetic, science fiction) The Sun, the star orbited by the Earth.
2. (Roman mythology) The sun god; equivalent of the Greek Helios. Brother of Luna and Aurora.
3. (Norse mythology) The sun goddess.
4. A male given name
   • 2017 March 1st, Marc Waddington, “How dad’s bionic arm invention is changing son’s life & prosthetics” in the Daily Post, № 51,073, page 6/2:

     Sol (named after the solar eclipse on the day of his birth) was born in March 2015 with an undetected clot in his upper left arm.

Synonyms

• (Earth's star): sun, Sun

Etymology 2

Shortening.

Proper noun

Sol

1. A diminutive of the male given name Solomon.

Anagrams

• LOS, OLS, SLO, los'

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Galician

Proper noun

Sol m

1. the Sun, Sol

Related terms

• solar

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German

Etymology 1

From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Latin sol(ve) in the hymn for St. John the Baptist all note names were taken from.

Noun

Sol n (genitive Sols, plural Sole)

1. (music) sol, the fifth step in the solfège scale of C, preceded by fa and followed by la.

Etymology 2

English sol

Noun

Sol n (genitive Sols, plural Sole)

1. (physical chemistry) sol, a type of colloid in which a solid is dispersed in a liquid.

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Middle English

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin sōl.

Noun

Sol (uncountable)

1. the Sun.
   • 1400, Geoffrey Chaucer, Canterbury Tales, The Canon's Yeoman's Tale, Lines 273-276:

     Sol gold is, and Luna silver we threpe, Mars iren, Mercurie quyksilver we clepe, Saturnus leed, and Juppiter is tyn, And Venus coper, by my fader kyn!

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Plautdietsch

Noun

Sol f (plural Sole)

1. sole (of a shoe)

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Portuguese

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈsɔɫ/
• IPA^(key): /ˈsɔw/
• Hyphenation: Sol

Proper noun

Sol m

1. (astronomy) the Sun

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Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈsol/ [ˈsol]
• Hyphenation: Sol

Etymology 1

Proper noun

Sol m

1. the Sun

Etymology 2

Proper noun

Sol f

1. Clipping of Soledad.