see also: Sol, SOL
Etymology 1
From Glover's solmization, from Middle English sol, Italian sol in the solmization of Guido of Arezzo, from the first syllable of Latin solve in the lyrics of the scale-ascending hymn Ut queant laxis by Paulus Deacon.
Pronunciation Nounsol (uncountable)
(music) - In a movable-do or tonic sol-fa system: the fifth step in a scale, preceded by fa and followed by la.
- c. 1590–1592 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Taming of the Shrew”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC ↗, [Act III, scene i], page 218 ↗, column 2:
- D ſol re, one Cliffe, two notes haue I, / Ela mi, ſhow pitty or I die.
- [c. 1591–1595 (date written), [William Shakespeare], […] Romeo and Juliet. […] (First Quarto), London: […] Iohn Danter, published 1597, →OCLC ↗, [Act IV, scene v] ↗:
- Ser[vant, i.e., Peter]. Alack alack what ſhal I doe, come Fidlers play me ſome mery dumpe. / I. [First musician]. A ſir, this is no time to play. / […] / Ser. Then will I giue it you, and ſoundly to. / I. What will you giue vs? / Ser. The fidler, Ile re you, Ile fa you, Ile ſol you. / I. If you re vs and fa vs, we will note you.
- A nonce use as a verb.]
- In a fixed-do system: the musical note G.
- In a movable-do or tonic sol-fa system: the fifth step in a scale, preceded by fa and followed by la.
From Old French sol (modern French sou), from Latin solidum, the accusative singular of solidus ("Roman gold coin; (adjective) solid"), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *solh₂-.
Pronunciation Nounsol (plural sols)
- (historical) An old coin from France and some other countries worth 12 deniers.
- 1605 (first performance), Beniamin Ionson [i.e., Ben Jonson], “Volpone, or The Foxe. A Comœdie. […]”, in The Workes of Beniamin Ionson (First Folio), London: […] Will[iam] Stansby, published 1616, →OCLC ↗, Act IV, scene v, pages 502–503 ↗:
- This fellow, For ſix ſols more, would pleade againſt his Maker.
- 1611, Thomas Coryate [i.e., Thomas Coryat], “My Obseruations of the Most Glorious, Peerelesse, and Mayden Citie of Venice: […]”, in Coryats Crudities Hastily Gobled Vp in Five Moneths Trauells […], London: […] W[illiam] S[tansby for the author], →OCLC ↗, page 285 ↗, lines 18–24:
- Moſt of their owne coines that I ſaw were theſe. In gold but one, which is their chiquiney: This piece doth much vary in the value. For ſometimes it is high, ſometimes low. When I was there, a chiquiney was worth eleuen liuers, and twelue ſols. Which counteruaileth eight ſhillings and eight pence halfe penny of our money.
- 1748, [Tobias Smollett], chapter XLIV, in The Adventures of Roderick Random. […], volume II, London: […] [William Strahan] for J[ohn] Osborn […], →OCLC ↗, page 69 ↗:
- It was the fate of the grenadier company, to which I now belonged, to lie at Rheims, where I found myſelf in the utmoſt want of every thing: My pay, which amounted to five ſols a day, far from ſupplying me with neceſſaries; being ſcarce ſufficient to procure a wretched ſubſiſtance, to keep ſoul and body together; […]
From Spanish sol, from Latin sol, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *sóh₂wl̥.
Pronunciation Nounsol
- (historical) A former Spanish-American silver coin.
- In full nuevo sol or new sol: the main currency unit of Peru which replaced the inti in 1991; also, a coin of this value.
From Latin sol; see further at etymology 3.
Pronunciation Nounsol (plural sols)
(astronomy) A solar day on the planet Mars (equivalent to 24 hours, 39 minutes, 35 seconds).
- Russian: марсиа́нские су́тки
Sense 1 (“type of colloid”) is derived from -sol (in words like alcosol and hydrosol), an abbreviation of solution.
Sense 2 (“solution to an objection”) is derived directly from solution.
Pronunciation Nounsol (plural sols)
- (physical chemistry) A type of colloid in which a solid is dispersed in a liquid.
- (obsolete) A solution to an objection (or "ob"), for example, in controversial divinity.
- 1624, Democritus Junior [pseudonym; Robert Burton], “Symptomes Generall, Loue to Their Owne Sect, Hate of All Other Religions, […]”, in The Anatomy of Melancholy: […], 2nd edition, Oxford, Oxfordshire: […] John Lichfield and James Short, for Henry Cripps, →OCLC ↗, partition 3, section 4, member 1, subsection 3, page 524 ↗:
- [F]or that they had nothing elſe to doe, […] haue coyned a thouſand idle queſtions, nice diſtinctions, Obs and Sols, […]
- [1677 (indicated as 1678), [Samuel Butler], “[The Third Part of Hudibras]. Canto II.”, in Hudibras. The Third and Last Part. […], London: […] Robert Horne, […], published 1679, →OCLC ↗; republished in A[lfred] R[ayney] Waller, editor, Hudibras: Written in the Time of the Late Wars, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire: University Press, 1905, →OCLC ↗, page 165 ↗:
- Where Hinderſon, and th' other Maſſes / Were ſent to Cap Texts, and Put Caſes: / To paſs for deep, and Learned Scholars, / Although but Paltry, Ob-and-Sollers: […]]
Sol
Pronunciation Etymology 1
Borrowed from Latin Sōl.
Proper noun- (poetic, scifi) The Sun, the star orbited by the Earth.
- (Roman god) The sun god; equivalent of the Greek Helios. Brother of Luna and Aurora.
- (Norse mythology) The sun goddess.
- (nonce word) A male given name
sol (uncountable)
- (tincture, rare) Or gold, in the postmedieval practice of blazoning the tinctures of certain sovereigns' (especially British monarchs') coats as planets.
- 1693, Richard Blome, The Art of Heraldry, in two parts ... second edition ..., pages 76-77:
- 4. Luna, a Mantle of Estate, Mars doubled Ermine, ouched Sol, garnished with Strings fastned thereunto fretways dependent, and tasselled of the same. [...] These Arms do belong to the Town of Beckbock in Wales. 5. Jupiter, a Mace of Majestry in Bend Sol.
- (obsolete, alchemy, chemistry) Gold.
Shortening.
Proper noun- A male given name.
- 1846 October 1 – 1848 April 1, Charles Dickens, Dombey and Son, London: Bradbury and Evans, […], published 1848, →OCLC ↗:
- “Chock full o’ science,” said the radiant Captain, “as ever he was! Sol Gills, Sol Gills, what have you been up to, for this many a long day, my ould boy?”
SOL
Proper noun
- (sports) Abbreviation of Solomon Islands
sol (plural sols)
- Initialism of statute of limitations
- Initialism of speed of light
- Initialism of standards of learning
- Initialism of sleep onset latency
- Space-occupying lesion of the brain can be caused by different pathology such as a malignancy, an abscess or a haematoma
- (in the plural) Init of stoppages of leave
sol (not comparable)
- Initialism of shit out of luck
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