solo

See also: Appendix:Variations of "solo"

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Italian solo, from Latin sōlus, probably related to se (“himself”).

Pronunciation

• (US, Canada) IPA^(key): /ˈsoʊ.loʊ/
• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈsəʊ.ləʊ/

• Audio (Southern England)

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• Rhymes: (US, Canada) -oʊloʊ, (UK) -əʊləʊ

English numbers ^(edit)

		10
		1	2  → [a], [b], [c]	10  →
Cardinal: one     Ordinal: first     Latinate ordinal: primary     Adverbial: one time, once     Multiplier: onefold     Latinate multiplier: single     Distributive: singly     Collective: onesome     Multiuse collective: singlet     Greek or Latinate collective: monad     Greek collective prefix: mono-     Latinate collective prefix: uni-     Fractional: whole     Elemental: singlet     Greek prefix: proto-     Number of musicians: solo     Number of years: year

Noun

solo (plural solos or soli)

1. (music) A piece of music for one performer.
2. A job or performance done by one person alone.
3. (games) A card game similar to whist in which each player plays against the others in turn without a partner
4. A single shot of espresso.
5. (Gaelic football) An instance of soloing the football.

Coordinate terms

• (coffee): doppio, triplo (rare)

Translations

piece of music for one

• Armenian: մեներգ (hy) (menerg)
• Bulgarian: соло n (solo)
• Catalan: solo (ca) m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 獨奏／独奏 (zh) (dúzòu), 獨唱／独唱 (zh) (dúchàn)

• Czech: sólo (cs)
• Dutch: solo (nl)
• Finnish: soolo (fi)
• French: solo (fr) m
• German: Solo (de) n
• Greek: σόλο (el) n (sólo)
• Irish: aonréad m
• Italian: assolo (it) m, solo (it) m
• Japanese: ソロ (soro), 独奏 (ja) (どくそう, dokusō), 独唱 (ja) (どくしょう, dokushō)
• Maori: hianga
• Norman: solo m
• Polish: solo (pl) n, solówka (pl) f
• Portuguese: solo (pt) m
• Romanian: solo (ro)
• Russian: со́ло (ru) n (sólo)
• Spanish: solo (es) m
• Swedish: solo (sv) n
• Vietnamese: độc tấu(獨奏), độc xướng (獨唱)
• Welsh: unawd m or f

job or performance done by one person

• Dutch: solo (nl)
• Finnish: soolo (fi)
• French: solo (fr) m
• Galician: solo (gl), só (gl)
• German: Solo (de) n
• Greek: σόλο (el) n (sólo)
• Italian: in solitaria, da solo
• Maori: hīanga
• Norman: solo m
• Portuguese: solo (pt) m
• Romanian: solo (ro)
• Swedish: solo (sv) n
• Vietnamese: một mình (vi)

card game

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 惠斯特紙牌戲／惠斯特纸牌戏 (huìsītè zhǐpáixì)

• Dutch: solo (nl)
• Finnish: soolo (fi)
• French: please add this translation if you can
• German: Solo (de) n
• Italian: solitario (it) m
• Spanish: solitario (es) m

Adjective

solo (comparative more solo, superlative most solo)

1. Without a companion or instructor.
2. (music) Of, or relating to, a musical solo.

Translations

without a companion or instructor

• Bulgarian: единичен (bg) (ediničen), самостоятелен (bg) (samostojatelen)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 單／单 (zh) (dān), 獨自的／独自的 (dúzì de), 單獨的／单独的 (dāndú de)

• Czech: sólo (cs)
• Dutch: alleen (nl)
• French: solo (fr), solitaire (fr)
• German: einzeln (de)
• Italian: solitario (it), solo (it)
• Maori: takitahi
• Polish: solo (pl)
• Portuguese: solo (pt)
• Russian: самостоятельно (ru) (samostojatelʹno)
• Spanish: solo (es)
• Swedish: solo (sv), ensam (sv)
• Vietnamese: độc (vi) (獨 (vi)), đơn (vi) (單 (vi)), một mình (vi), tự (vi) (自 (vi)), tự mình

of a musical solo

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 獨唱／独唱 (zh) (dúchàng)

• Dutch: solo (nl)
• French: solo (fr)
• German: solo (de)
• Italian: solista (it), da solista, per solista
• Portuguese: solo (pt)
• Romanian: solo (ro)
• Russian: со́ло (ru) (sólo)
• Spanish: solo (es)
• Swedish: solo (sv)
• Vietnamese: độc xướng (獨唱)

Adverb

solo (not comparable)

1. Alone, without a companion.
   • 1984, “Wake me up before you go-go”, George Michael (lyrics), George Michael (music), performed by Wham!:

     Wake me up before you go-go / 'Cause I'm not plannin' on going solo

Verb

solo (third-person singular simple present solos or soloes, present participle soloing, simple past and past participle soloed)

1. (music) To perform a solo.
2. To perform something in the absence of anyone else.
3. (Gaelic football) To drop the ball and then toe-kick it upward into the hands.

Translations

to perform a solo

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: no corresponding word known

• Dutch: een solo spelen
• French: please add this translation if you can
• German: ein Solo spielen
• Italian: fare un assolo
• Maori: whakatene (of a song)
• Portuguese: solar (pt)
• Russian: солировать (ru) (solirovatʹ)
• Spanish: tocar un solo
• Vietnamese: độc diễn (獨演)

to perform something in the absence of anyone else

• Dutch: solo (nl)
• Finnish: sooloilla
• French: please add this translation if you can
• German: allein machen
• Italian: volare da solo
• Spanish: ir por su cuenta, ir por la cuenta propia de uno

Derived terms

• deep-water solo
• free solo
• free-solo
• solo album
• solo concert
• soloist
• solo parent
• solo run
• solo sex

 

Related terms

• solitaire

See also

• Thesaurus:number

Anagrams

• Loos, OOLs, Oslo, loos, sloo, sool

Asturian

Adjective

solo

1. neuter of solu

Catalan

Etymology

Borrowed from Italian solo.

Noun

solo m (plural solos)

1. (music) solo (a piece of music for one performer)

Derived terms

• solista

Further reading

• “solo” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “solo”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2023
• “solo” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “solo” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from Italian solo, from Latin solus.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈsoː.loː/
• Hyphenation: so‧lo

Noun

solo m (plural solo's or soli, diminutive solootje n)

1. (music) solo (piece or passage performed or typified by a single performer)

Derived terms

• drumsolo
• gitaarsolo
• solist
• soloactie

French

Etymology

Borrowed from Italian solo. Doublet of seul.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sɔ.lo/

• Audio

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Noun

solo m (plural solos)

1. (music) solo (a piece of music for one performer)

Derived terms

• guitare solo
• soliste

See also

• duo, trio

Further reading

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

Galician

Etymology 1

From Latin sōlum (“soil, ground”).

Noun

solo m (plural solos)

1. soil, ground

   Synonym: chan

Etymology 2

Borrowed from Italian solo.

Noun

solo m (plural solos)

1. (music) solo (a piece of music for one performer)

   Synonym: só

German

Etymology

Borrowed from Italian solo.

Adjective

solo (indeclinable, predicative only)

1. alone
2. single (not married nor dating)

   Ich bin solo. ― I'm single.

Higaonon

Etymology

From sulu, compare Cebuano sulu.

Noun

solo

1. lamp

Italian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈso.lo/

• Audio

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• Rhymes: -olo
• Hyphenation: só‧lo

Etymology 1

From Latin sōlus.

Adjective

solo (feminine sola, masculine plural soli, feminine plural sole, superlative solissimo)

1. alone, by oneself, unattended, unaccompanied, lonely, lone, lonesome

   Synonym: solitario

   Non sei solo. ― You are not alone.

2. only, single, just one, unique, sole

   Synonym: unico

3. (music) solo (a piece of music for one performer)

   Synonym: assolo

Coordinate terms

• (single): doppio, triplo

Derived terms

• solamente
• da solo

Descendants

• → English: solo
• → German: solo

Etymology 2

From Latin sōlum.

Adverb

solo

1. only, just, but, alone, merely

   Synonyms: solamente, soltanto

   solo una volta ― only once

   ha solo quattro anni ― he's just four

Conjunction

solo

1. (followed by che) but, only

   Synonyms: ma, però

2. (preceded by se) if only

   se solo lui non fosse qui ... ― if only he was not here ...

3. (followed by se) only if

   […] solo se lui non è qui. ― […] only if he is not here.

Noun

solo m (plural soli, feminine sola)

1. the only one, the only man

   Synonym: unico

   lui è il solo che può ... ― he is the only one/only man that can ...

Related terms

• soliloquio
• solingo
• solino
• solipede
• solipsismo
• solista
• solitario
• solitudine

 

Anagrams

• Oslo

Latin

Noun

solō

1. dative/ablative singular of solum

Adjective

sōlō

1. dative/ablative masculine/neuter singular of sōlus

References

• “solo”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• solo in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette

Latvian

Noun

solo m (invariable)

1. (music) solo

Malagasy

Etymology

Borrowed from a South Sulawesi language, from Proto-South Sulawesi *sulu(r); compare Makasar suluk.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈsulu/, [ˈsulʷ]

Noun

sòlo

1. substitute, replacement

Norman

Etymology

Borrowed from English solo.

Noun

solo m (plural solos)

1. (music, Jersey) solo

Northern Sami

Verb

solo

1. inflection of soallut:
   1. present indicative connegative
   2. second-person singular imperative

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

Borrowed from Italian solo, from Latin solus (“alone”).

Adverb

solo

1. solo

Noun

solo (definite singular soloen, indefinite plural soloer or soli, definite singular soloene or soliene)

1. (music, dance) a solo

References

• “solo” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

Borrowed from Italian solo, from Latin solus (“alone”).

Adverb

solo

1. solo

Noun

solo m (definite singular soloen, indefinite plural soloar, definite plural soloane)

1. (music, dance) a solo

References

• “solo” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Papiamentu

Etymology

From Portuguese sol and Spanish sol and Kabuverdianu sol.

Noun

solo

1. sun

Polish

Etymology

Borrowed from Italian solo, from Latin sōlus.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈsɔ.lɔ/

• Audio

  (file)

• Rhymes: -ɔlɔ
• Syllabification: so‧lo

Noun

solo n (indeclinable)

1. (music) solo (piece of music for one)

   Synonym: solówka

2. (slang) a one-on-one fight usually between schoolers and agreed to in advance

   Synonym: solówka

Adjective

solo (not comparable)

1. (music) solo (without a companion or instructor)

Adverb

solo (not comparable)

1. (music) solo (alone, without a companion)

   Synonym: pojedynczo

Related terms

nouns

• solista
• solistka
• solówka

 

Further reading

• solo in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• solo in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Portuguese

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈsɔ.lu/

• Hyphenation: so‧lo

Etymology 1

Learned borrowing from Latin sōlum (“soil, ground”).

Noun

solo m (plural solos)

1. (geology) soil, ground

Derived terms

• subsolo

Etymology 2

Borrowed from Italian solo, from Latin sōlus (“alone, solitary”). Doublet of só.

Noun

solo m (plural solos)

1. (music) solo (a piece of music for one performer)

Quotations

For quotations using this term, see Citations:solo.

Etymology 3

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb

solo

1. first-person singular present indicative of solar

Further reading

• “solo” in iDicionário Aulete.
• “solo” in Dicionário inFormal.
• “solo” in Dicionário Aberto based on Novo Diccionário da Língua Portuguesa de Cândido de Figueiredo, 1913
• “solo” in Dicionário infopédia da Língua Portuguesa. Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2023.
• “solo” in Michaelis Dicionário Brasileiro da Língua Portuguesa.
• “solo” in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa.

Romanian

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from Italian solo.

Noun

solo m (plural solouri)

1. solo

Declension

Declension of solo

	singular		plural
	indefinite articulation	definite articulation	indefinite articulation	definite articulation
nominative/accusative	(un) solo	soloul	(niște) solouri	solourii
genitive/dative	(unui) solo	soloului	(unor) solouri	solourilor
vocative	soloule		solourilor

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈsolo/ [ˈso.lo]
• Rhymes: -olo
• Syllabification: so‧lo
• Homophone: sólo

Etymology 1

Inherited from Latin sōlus (“alone, sole, only”).

Adjective

solo (feminine sola, masculine plural solos, feminine plural solas)

1. sole, only, unique, single
2. lonely, lonesome
3. alone, by oneself
4. automatic; self-, by itself

   La máquina se lava sola.

   The machine washes itself.; The machine is self-washing.

Derived terms

• como un solo hombre
• de solo a solo
• gato solo
• más solo que la una
• más vale solo que mal acompañado
• por sí solo
• solito
• tejón solo

 

Related terms

• a solas
• soledad
• solitario

 

Etymology 2

From Latin sōlum.

Alternative forms

• sólo (deprecated)

Adverb

solo

1. only, solely, just

   Synonyms: solamente, únicamente

   Solo quiero salir. ― I just want to leave.

   No solo... sino también... ― Not only... but also...

Further reading

• “solo”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014

Swedish

Adjective

solo (comparative mer solo, superlative mest solo)

1. (predicative only) alone

   Synonym: ensam

   Hon var solo på jobbet ― She was alone at work

Noun

solo n

1. (music) a solo (piece of music or dance performed by or strongly centered on a single or limited number of performers)

   Antonym: tutti

2. (in compounds) something done alone

   soloflygning ― solo flight

Declension

Declension of solo
	Singular		Plural
	Indefinite	Definite	Indefinite	Definite
Nominative	solo	solot	solon	solona
Genitive	solos	solots	solons	solonas

References

• solo in Svensk ordbok (SO)
• solo in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
• solo in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)

Walloon

Etymology 1

From Latin sōl, compare French soleil.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sɔ.ˈlɔ/

• Hyphenation: so‧lo

Noun

solo m (plural solos)

1. (astronomy) sun

   Synonym: solea

Etymology 2

Borrowed from French solo, from Italian solo

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sɔ.ˈlɔ/

• Hyphenation: so‧lo

Noun

solo m (plural solos)

1. (music) solo