Sol

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

English

Pronunciation

(UK) IPA^(key): /sɒl/
(US) IPA^(key): /soʊl/
Homophones: sole, soul

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Latin sōl.

Proper noun

Sol

A poetic name often used for the Earth's star.
(Roman mythology) The sun god; equivalent of the Greek Helios. Brother of Luna and Aurora.
(Norse mythology) The sun goddess.
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

A diminutive of the male given name Solomon.

Anagrams

LOS, OLS, SLO, los'

Galician

Proper noun

Sol m

the Sun, Sol

Related terms

solar

German

Etymology

From Latin sol(ve) in the hymn for St. John the Baptist all note names were taken from.

Noun

Sol n (genitive Sols, plural Sole)

(music) sol, the fifth step in the solfège scale of C, preceded by fa and followed by la.
(physical chemistry) sol, a type of colloid in which a solid is dispersed in a liquid.

Declension

Declension of Sol

	singular			plural
	indef.	def.	noun	def.	noun
nominative	ein	das	Sol	die	Sole
genitive	eines	des	Sols	der	Sole
dative	einem	dem	Sol	den	Solen
accusative	ein	das	Sol	die	Sole

Middle English

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin sōl.

Noun

Sol (uncountable)

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!

Plautdietsch

Noun

Sol f (plural Sole)

sole (of a shoe)

Portuguese

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

(Portugal) IPA^(key): /ˈsɔɫ/
Hyphenation: Sol

Proper noun

Sol m

(astronomy) the Sun

Spanish

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ˈsol/
Hyphenation: Sol

Proper noun

Sol m

the Sun

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