soldat

See also: soldât and Soldat

Catalan

Etymology

Borrowed from Italian soldato, past participle of soldare, from soldo (“money, military pay”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Central) [sulˈðat]
• IPA^(key): (Balearic, Valencia) [solˈðat]
• Rhymes: -at

Noun

soldat m (plural soldats)

1. soldier

Verb

soldat (feminine solda, masculine plural soldats, feminine plural soldes)

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Danish

Etymology

From French soldat, itself from Italian soldato (“soldier”), related to soldo (“penny, cent, money”).

Noun

soldat c (singular definite soldaten, plural indefinite soldater)

1. soldier

Inflection

Declension of soldat

common gender	Singular		Plural
	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative	soldat	soldaten	soldater	soldaterne
genitive	soldats	soldatens	soldaters	soldaternes

Derived terms

• barnesoldat, børnesoldat (“child soldier”)
• FN-soldat

 

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French

Etymology

From Middle French soldat, borrowed from Italian soldato, past participle of soldare, from soldo (“money, military pay”). Replaced soudard.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sɔl.da/

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Noun

soldat m (plural soldats)

1. soldier

Derived terms

• enfant soldat
• soldatesque

 

Descendants

• Haitian Creole: solda
• → Danish: soldat
• → Luxembourgish: Zaldot
• → Norwegian: soldat
• → Persian: سالدات (sâldât)
• → Plautdietsch: Sol'dot
• → Romanian: soldat
• → Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic script: со̏лда̄т

  Latin script: sȍldāt

• → Swedish: soldat
  • → Northern Sami: soalddát
• → West Frisian: soldaat

Further reading

• “soldat”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

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Middle French

Etymology

Borrowed from Italian soldato, past participle of soldare, from soldo (“money, military pay”).

Noun

soldat m (plural soldats)

1. soldier

Descendants

• French: soldat (see there for further descendants)
• → Dutch: soldaat
  • Afrikaans: soldaat
    • → Xhosa: isoldathi
  • Berbice Creole Dutch: solati
  • Negerhollands: soldat, soldaet
  • → Caribbean Javanese: soldat, soldati
  • → Kari'na: suntaty
  • → Papiamentu: sòldat, soldaat
  • → Saramaccan: sodáti
  • → Sranan Tongo: srudati
    • → Aukan: suudati

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Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From French soldat, itself from Italian soldato (“soldier”)

Noun

soldat m (definite singular soldaten, indefinite plural soldater, definite plural soldatene)

1. soldier (member of an army)
2. soldier (member of the Salvation Army)

Derived terms

• barnesoldat
• fallskjermsoldat
• geriljasoldat

• kommandosoldat
• leiesoldat

References

• “soldat” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

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Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From French soldat, itself from Italian soldato (“soldier”)

Noun

soldat m (definite singular soldaten, indefinite plural soldatar, definite plural soldatane)

1. soldier (member of an army)
2. soldier (member of the Salvation Army)

Derived terms

• barnesoldat
• fallskjermsoldat
• geriljasoldat
• kommandosoldat

References

• “soldat” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

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Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from French soldat, German Soldat, from Italian soldato.

Noun

soldat m (plural soldați)

1. soldier

Synonyms

• ostaș
• militar

References

• Romanian vocabulary. In: Haspelmath, M. & Tadmor, U. (eds.) World Loanword Database. Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology.

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Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

Borrowed from French soldat.

Noun

sȍldāt m (Cyrillic spelling со̏лда̄т)

1. (archaic) soldier

Declension

Declension of soldat

	singular	plural
nominative	soldat	soldati
genitive	soldata	soldata
dative	soldatu	soldatima
accusative	soldata	soldate
vocative	soldate	soldati
locative	soldatu	soldatima
instrumental	soldatom	soldatima

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Swedish

Pronunciation

• audio:

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Noun

soldat c

1. soldier

Declension

Declension of soldat
	Singular		Plural
	Indefinite	Definite	Indefinite	Definite
Nominative	soldat	soldaten	soldater	soldaterna
Genitive	soldats	soldatens	soldaters	soldaternas

Derived terms

• barnsoldat
• marinsoldat

Anagrams

• lotsad, odlats, saldot