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sole
English
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /s??l/
- (General American) enPR: s?l, IPA(key): /so?l/
- Rhymes: -??l
- Homophones: Seoul, soul, sowl
Etymology 1
From Middle English sole, soole, from Old English s?l (“a rope, cord, line, bond, rein, door-hinge, necklace, collar”), from Proto-Germanic *sail?, *sailaz (“rope, cable”), *sail? (“noose, rein, bondage”), from Proto-Indo-European *sey- (“to tie to, tie together”). Cognate with Scots sale, saile (“halter, collar”), Dutch zeel (“rope, cord, strap”), German Seil (“rope, cable, wire”), Icelandic seil (“a string, line”). Non-Germanic cognates include Albanian dell (“sinew, vein”).
Noun
sole (plural soles)
- (dialectal or obsolete) A wooden band or yoke put around the neck of an ox or cow in the stall.
Etymology 2
From Middle English sol, from Old English sol (“mire, miry place”), from Proto-Germanic *sul? (“mire, wallow, mud”), from Proto-Indo-European *s?l- (“thick liquid”). Cognate with Saterland Frisian soal (“ditch”), Dutch sol (“water and mud filled pit”), German Suhle (“mire, wallow”), Norwegian saula, søyla (“mud puddle”). More at soil.
Alternative forms
- soal
Noun
sole (plural soles)
- (dialectal, Northern England) A pond or pool; a dirty pond of standing water.
Etymology 3
From earlier sowle (“to pull by the ear”). Origin unknown. Perhaps from sow (“female pig”) +? -le, as in the phrase "take a sow by the wrong ear", or from Middle English sole (“rope”). See above.
Alternative forms
- soal, sowl
Verb
sole (third-person singular simple present soles, present participle soling, simple past and past participle soled)
- (transitive, Britain dialectal) To pull by the ears; to pull about; haul; lug.
Etymology 4
From Middle English sole, soule, from Old French sol, soul (“alone”), from Latin s?lus (“alone, single, solitary, lonely”). Ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *swé (reflexive pronoun). Perhaps related to Old Latin sollus (“whole, complete”), from Proto-Indo-European *solw-, *salw-, *sl?w- (“safe, healthy”). More at save.
Adjective
sole (not comparable)
- only
- (law) unmarried (especially of a woman); widowed.
- unique; unsurpassed;
- with independent power; unfettered.
Synonyms
- (only): See also Thesaurus:sole
- (unmarried): lone
Derived terms
- sole right
Translations
Etymology 5
From Middle English sole, soole, from Old English sole, solu. Reinforced by Anglo-Norman sole, Old French sole, from Vulgar Latin *sola (“bottom of the shoe”, also “flatfish”), from Latin solea (“sandal, bottom of the shoe”), from Proto-Indo-European *swol- (“sole”). Cognate with Dutch zool (“sole, tread”), German Sohle (“sole, insole, bottom, floor”), Danish sål (“sole”), Icelandic sóli (“sole, outsole”), Gothic ???????????????????? (sulja, “sandal”). Related to Latin solum (“bottom, ground, soil”). More at soil.
Noun
sole (plural soles)
- (anatomy) The bottom or plantar surface of the foot.
- Synonym: (medical term) planta
- (clothing) The bottom of a shoe or boot.
- (obsolete) The foot itself.
- The dove found no rest for the sole of her foot.
- Solea solea, a flatfish of the family Soleidae.
- The bottom or lower part of anything, or that on which anything rests in standing.
- The bottom of the body of a plough; the slade.
- The bottom of a furrow.
- The end section of the chanter of a set of bagpipes.
- The horny substance under a horse's foot, which protects the more tender parts.
- (military) The bottom of an embrasure.
- (nautical) A piece of timber attached to the lower part of the rudder, to make it even with the false keel.
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Totten to this entry?)
- (nautical) The floor inside the cabin of a yacht or boat
- (mining) The seat or bottom of a mine; applied to horizontal veins or lodes.
Derived terms
- insole
- midsole
- outsole
Descendants
- ? Hebrew: ????? (sol)
Translations
Verb
sole (third-person singular simple present soles, present participle soling, simple past and past participle soled)
- (transitive) to put a sole on (a shoe or boot)
Derived terms
- resole
Translations
Anagrams
- EOLs, ESOL, Elos, LEOs, Leos, Lose, OELs, elos, leos, lose, selo, sloe
Czech
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [?sol?]
Verb
sole
- masculine singular present transgressive of solit
Danish
Noun
sole c
- indefinite plural of sol
Esperanto
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?sole/
- Hyphenation: so?le
- Rhymes: -ole
- Audio:
Adverb
sole
- solely
Related terms
- sola
French
Etymology
From Vulgar Latin *sola, from Latin solea.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /s?l/
Noun
sole f (plural soles)
- sole (fish)
- sole, the bottom of a hoof
- sole, a piece of timber, a joist
- a piece of land devoted to crop rotation
Further reading
- “sole” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
Italian
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?so.le/
- Hyphenation: só?le
Etymology 1
From Sole, from Latin s?lem, accusative case of s?l, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *sóh?wl?.
Cognates include Greek ????? (ílios), Icelandic sól, Hindi ????? (s?rya), and Russian ??????? (sólnce).
Noun
sole m (plural soli)
- (colloquial, astronomy) star (for extension of Sole)
- Synonym: stella
- (heraldry) sun (a star in heraldry)
- (alchemy) gold
- Synonym: oro
- sunlight
- (poetic) daytime, day (the interval between sunrise and sunset)
- (poetic) year
- (poetic, in the plural) eyes
Related terms
See also
References
- sole in Dizionario Italiano Olivetti
- sole in Collins Italian-English Dictionary
Further reading
- sole on the Italian Wikipedia.Wikipedia it
Etymology 2
See the etymology of the main entry.
Adjective
sole
- feminine plural of solo
Noun
sole f
- plural of sola
Anagrams
- leso
Latin
Etymology 1
See s?l.
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /?so?.le/, [?s?o????]
- (Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /?so.le/, [?s??l?]
Noun
s?le
- ablative singular of s?l
Etymology 2
See s?lus.
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /?so?.le/, [?s?o????]
- (Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /?so.le/, [?s??l?]
Adjective
s?le
- vocative masculine singular of s?lus
Neapolitan
Etymology
From Latin s?l.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?sol?/
Noun
sole m
- Sun
Norman
Etymology
From Vulgar Latin *sola, from Latin solea.
Noun
sole f (plural soles)
- sole (fish)
Norwegian Bokmål
Etymology
Probably from the noun sol
Verb
sole (imperative sol, present tense soler, passive -, simple past sola or solet or solte, past participle sola or solet or solt, present participle solende)
- (reflexive, sole seg) to sunbathe, sun oneself, bask (also figurative)
References
- “sole” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
Norwegian Nynorsk
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /sku?l?/ (example of pronunciation)
Etymology 1
From Old Norse sóli m, from Latin solum (“bottom, ground”).
Noun
sole m (definite singular solen, indefinite plural solar, definite plural solane)
- (anatomy) a sole (bottom or plantar surface of the foot)
- (clothing) a sole (bottom of a shoe or boot)
Derived terms
Verb
sole (present tense solar, past tense sola, past participle sola, passive infinitive solast, present participle solande, imperative sol)
- to apply a sole to footwear
Alternative forms
- sola (a-infinitive)
Derived terms
- soling f
See also
- såle (Bokmål)
Etymology 2
From the noun sol f (“sun”).
Alternative forms
- sola (a-infinitive)
Verb
sole (present tense solar, past tense sola, past participle sola, passive infinitive solast, present participle solande, imperative sol)
- (reflexive) to sunbathe
- (reflexive, figuratively) to bask
- (transitive) to expose to the sun
Derived terms
- soling f
References
- “sole” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
Anagrams
- lose, Sola, sloe
Old English
Alternative forms
- solu
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin solea, from solum (“bottom, base”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *swol-.
Noun
sole f
- sole
- shoe, sandal
Declension
Descendants
- Middle English: sole, soole
- English: sole
- Scots: sole
References
- Joseph Bosworth and T. Northcote Toller (1898) , “sole”, in An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary, 2nd edition, Oxford: Oxford University Press.
- John R. Clark Hall (1916) , “sole”, in A Concise Anglo-Saxon Dictionary, 2nd edition, New York: Macmillan.
Old French
Adjective
sole f
- oblique/nominative feminine singular of sol
Polish
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?s?.l?/
- Homophone: sol?
Noun 1
sole
- nominative/accusative/vocative plural of sól
Noun 2
sole
- nominative/accusative/vocative plural of sola
Noun 3
sole
- nominative/accusative/vocative plural of sol
Portuguese
Verb
sole
- first-person singular (eu) present subjunctive of solar
- third-person singular (ele and ela, also used with você and others) present subjunctive of solar
- third-person singular (você) affirmative imperative of solar
- third-person singular (você) negative imperative of solar
Serbo-Croatian
Verb
sole (Cyrillic spelling ????)
- third-person plural present of soliti
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foxing
English
Verb
foxing
- present participle of fox
Noun
foxing (countable and uncountable, plural foxings)
- The discolouration of printed material with brown marks.
- A band of material joining the upper of a shoe to the sole.
- Crafty or wily behaviour.
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