different between regolith vs solum

English

Etymology

Irregular formation from Ancient Greek ????? (rhêgos, “rug, blanket”) +? -lith (from ????? (líthos, “stone”)).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?????l??/

Noun

regolith (countable and uncountable, plural regoliths)

1. (geology) The layer of loose rock, dust, sand, and soil, resting on the bedrock, that constitutes the surface layer of most dry land on Earth, the Moon, and other large solid aggregated celestial objects. Submarine regolith also exists.

Derived terms

• megaregolith
• palaeoregolith
• regolithic

Translations

See also

• regolith on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• Teighlor, glorieth

English

Etymology

From Latin solum (“base, bottom; soil”). Doublet of soil.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?s??l?m/
• (US, Canada) IPA^(key): /?so?l?m/
• (General Australian) IPA^(key): /?s??l?m/
• (General New Zealand) IPA^(key): /?s??l?m/

Noun

solum (plural solums or sola)

1. Within a soil profile, a set of related soil horizons that share the same cycle of pedogenic processes.
2. The upper layers of a soil profile that are affected by climate.

Anagrams

• Mosul, mulos, omuls

Latin

Etymology 1

From Proto-Italic *solom (“base, sole”), from Proto-Indo-European *solom or *selom (“place, habitation”). Cognate with Lithuanian salà (“island”), Proto-Slavic *selo (“village”) and Proto-Germanic *saliz (“house, dwelling; hall, room”). Related to Latin solea (“sandal, hoof-guard, fettle”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /?so.lum/, [?s???????]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /?so.lum/, [?s??lum]

Noun

solum n (genitive sol?); second declension

1. bottom, ground, base, foundation, bed
2. floor, pavement
3. ground, earth, land, soil
4. sole (of the foot)
5. (by extension) land, country, region, place

Declension

Second-declension noun (neuter).

Synonyms

• (bottom): fundus
• (ground): fundus

Derived terms

• assol?
• solea

Descendants

References

Etymology 2

Adverbial accusative of s?lus (“alone, only”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /?so?.lum/, [?s?o??????]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /?so.lum/, [?s??lum]

Adverb

s?lum (not comparable)

1. only, just, barely, merely

Derived terms

• s?lummodo

Related terms

Descendants

• Catalan: sol
• Italian: solo
• Spanish: solo

Etymology 3

See the etymology of the main entry.

Adjective

s?lum

1. inflection of s?lus:
   1. neuter nominative/accusative/vocative singular
   2. masculine accusative singular

References

• solum in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• solum in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• solum in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• solum in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
• Carl Meissner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book?^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.