sold

See also: Sold and șold

English

Etymology 1

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈsəʊld/, [ˈsɒʊ(ɫ)d]
• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈsoʊld/

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• (New Zealand, General Australian) IPA^(key): /sɐʉld/, [sɒʊ(ɫ)d]
• Rhymes: -əʊld

Verb

sold

1. simple past and past participle of sell

Derived terms

• oversold
• undersold

Etymology 2

From Middle English solde, sould, soud, from Middle French solde, Italian soldo. Compare soldier, sou, and Danish sold (via Low German).

Noun

sold

1. (obsolete) salary; military pay
   • 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book II, Canto IX”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:

     But were your will her sold to entertaine

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “sold”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

Anagrams

• DLOs, LODs, LoDs, OSDL, Olds, dols, lods, olds

Danish

Etymology 1

From Old Norse sáld, from Proto-Germanic *sēdlą (“sieve”).

Noun

sold n (singular definite soldet, plural indefinite sold)

1. sieve

Etymology 2

From Middle Low German solt.

Noun

sold

1. a wage, especially one paid to mercenaries

References

• “sold” in Den Danske Ordbog

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from French solde.

Noun

sold n (plural solduri)

1. (finance) balance

Declension

Declension of sold

	singular		plural
	indefinite articulation	definite articulation	indefinite articulation	definite articulation
nominative/accusative	(un) sold	soldul	(niște) solduri	soldurile
genitive/dative	(unui) sold	soldului	(unor) solduri	soldurilor
vocative	soldule		soldurilor