sol

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• UK: /sɒl/
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• US: /soʊl/
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• rhymes with -ɒl
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• rhymes with -əʊl
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• homophone: sole
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• homophone: soul
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• Received-Pronunciation: /sɒl/
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• Received-Pronunciation: /səʊl/
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• General-American: sōl
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• General-American: /sɔl/
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• General-American: /sɑl/
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• General-American: /soʊl/
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• homophone: sole (Canada, US)
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• CMU ARPABET: S AA1 L Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
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• CMU ARPABET 2: S OW1 L Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
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Borrowed from Latin Sōl.

Shortening.

From Glover's solmization, from Middle English sol (“fifth degree or note of Guido of Arezzo's hexachordal scales”), Italian sol in the solmization of Guido of Arezzo, from the first syllable of Latin solve (“wash away”) in the lyrics of the scale-ascending hymn Ut queant laxis by Paulus Deacon.

Learned borrowing from Old French sol (“French coin”) (modern French sou), from Latin solidum, the accusative singular of solidus (“Roman gold coin; (adjective) solid”). Doublet of sold, soldo, solid, solidus, sou, and xu.

PIE word *sóh2wl̥ From Spanish sol (“sun”), from Latin sōl (“sun”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *sóh2wl̥ (“sun”). Doublet of Sol and sol, directly from the Latin.

From Latin sōl (“sun”); see further at etymology 3. Doublet of sol from Spanish.

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.

52 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Latin: Sōl — Roman sun god
• Marathi: सोल (sol) — Roman sun god
• Polish: Sol — Roman sun god
• Swedish: Sol Indiges — Roman sun god
• Swedish: Sol Invictus — Roman sun god
• Old High German: sunna — Norse sun goddess
• Marathi: सोल (sol) — Norse sun goddess
• Polish: Sol — Norse sun goddess
• Swedish: Sol — Norse sun goddess
• Swedish: Sunna — Norse sun goddess
• Arabic: سُول m or صُول (sūl) — in a movable-do system: the fifth step in a scale
• Basque: sol — in a movable-do system: the fifth step in a scale
• Bulgarian: сол (sol) — in a movable-do system: the fifth step in a scale
• Catalan: sol — in a movable-do system: the fifth step in a scale
• Dutch: sol — in a movable-do system: the fifth step in a scale
• Finnish: sol — in a movable-do system: the fifth step in a scale
• Finnish: so — in a movable-do system: the fifth step in a scale
• French: sol — in a movable-do system: the fifth step in a scale
• Galician: sol — in a movable-do system: the fifth step in a scale
• Greek: σολ (sol) — in a movable-do system: the fifth step in a scale
• Hungarian: szó — in a movable-do system: the fifth step in a scale
• Japanese: ソル (soru) — in a movable-do system: the fifth step in a scale
• Japanese: ソ (so) — in a movable-do system: the fifth step in a scale
• Korean: 솔 (sol) — in a movable-do system: the fifth step in a scale
• Macedonian: сол (sol) — in a movable-do system: the fifth step in a scale
• Portuguese: sol — in a movable-do system: the fifth step in a scale
• Romanian: sol — in a movable-do system: the fifth step in a scale
• Russian: соль (solʹ) — in a movable-do system: the fifth step in a scale
• Spanish: sol — in a movable-do system: the fifth step in a scale
• Vietnamese: son — in a movable-do system: the fifth step in a scale
• Chinese Mandarin: 索爾 /索尔 (suǒ'ěr) — main currency unit of Peru
• Chinese Mandarin: 火星日 (huǒxīngrì) — solar day on the planet Mars
• Finnish: Marsin päivä — solar day on the planet Mars
• Norwegian: marsdøgn — solar day on the planet Mars
• Russian: марсиа́нские су́тки (marsiánskije sútki) — solar day on the planet Mars
• Bulgarian: зол (zol) — type of colloid in which a solid is dispersed in a liquid
• Catalan: sol — type of colloid in which a solid is dispersed in a liquid
• Chinese Mandarin: 溶膠 /溶胶 (róngjiāo) — type of colloid in which a solid is dispersed in a liquid
• Finnish: sooli — type of colloid in which a solid is dispersed in a liquid
• French: sol — type of colloid in which a solid is dispersed in a liquid
• Galician: sol — type of colloid in which a solid is dispersed in a liquid
• German: Sol — type of colloid in which a solid is dispersed in a liquid
• Hungarian: szol — type of colloid in which a solid is dispersed in a liquid
• Japanese: ゾル (zoru) — type of colloid in which a solid is dispersed in a liquid
• Polish: zol — type of colloid in which a solid is dispersed in a liquid
• Portuguese: sol — type of colloid in which a solid is dispersed in a liquid
• Romanian: sol — type of colloid in which a solid is dispersed in a liquid
• Russian: золь (zolʹ) — type of colloid in which a solid is dispersed in a liquid
• Serbo-Croatian: сол — type of colloid in which a solid is dispersed in a liquid
• Serbo-Croatian: sol — type of colloid in which a solid is dispersed in a liquid
• Spanish: sol — type of colloid in which a solid is dispersed in a liquid
• Tagalog: maladigkiting kaluswan — type of colloid in which a solid is dispersed in a liquid