Solresol

English

Etymology

From the name of the language in Solresol, based on the solfège notes so, re, and so.

Proper noun

Solresol

1. A minor constructed language whose phonemes are based upon the solfège.
   • 2000, McSweeney's, issue 5, page 63:

     Solresol reached a high-water mark in 1902, when Society head Boleslas Gajewski published a brief Grammaire du Solresol, which represented a refinement and expansion of the grammar rules set down in Sudre's 1866 guide.

   • 2015, Paul Collins, Banvard's Folly: Thirteen Tales of Renowned Obscurity, page 106:

     Now his elderly widow, stringing telegraph wires around their Paris apartment and experimenting for five days solid, quickly developed a telegraphic version of Solresol in time to present it to the Minister of the Interior.

Translations

constructed language whose phonemes are based upon the solfège

• Hindi: सोलरेसोल (solresol)
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• Portuguese: solresol m

Anagrams

• Rossello