different between solo vs soliloquy

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Italian solo, from Latin s?lus, probably related to se (“himself”).

Pronunciation

• (US, Canada) IPA^(key): /?so?.lo?/
• (UK) IPA^(key): /?s??.l??/

Noun

solo (plural solos or soli)

1. (music) A piece of music for one performer.
2. A job or performance done by one person alone.
3. (games) A card game similar to whist in which each player plays against the others in turn without a partner
4. A single shot of espresso.
5. (Gaelic football) An instance of soloing the football.

Coordinate terms

• (coffee): doppio, triplo (rare)

Translations

Adjective

solo (comparative more solo, superlative most solo)

1. Without a companion or instructor.
2. (music) Of, or relating to, a musical solo.

Translations

Adverb

solo (not comparable)

1. Alone, without a companion.

Verb

solo (third-person singular simple present soloes, present participle soloing, simple past and past participle soloed)

1. (music) To perform a solo.
2. To perform something in the absence of anyone else.
3. (Gaelic football) To drop the ball and then toe-kick it upward into the hands.

Derived terms

Related terms

• solitaire

Translations

Anagrams

• Loos, OOLs, Oslo, loos, sloo, sool

Catalan

Etymology

From Italian solo.

Noun

solo m (plural solos)

1. (music) solo (a piece of music for one performer)

Derived terms

• solista

Further reading

• “solo” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “solo” in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana.
• “solo” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “solo” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from Italian solo, from Latin solus.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?so?.lo?/
• Hyphenation: so?lo

Noun

solo m (plural solo's or soli, diminutive solootje n)

1. (music) solo (piece or passage performed or typified by a single performer)

Derived terms

• drumsolo
• gitaarsolo
• solist
• soloactie

French

Etymology

Borrowed from Italian solo. Doublet of seul.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /s?.lo/

Noun

solo m (plural solos)

1. (music) solo (a piece of music for one performer)

Derived terms

• soliste

See also

• duo, trio

Further reading

• “solo” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Galician

Etymology 1

From Latin s?lum (“soil, ground”).

Noun

solo m (plural solos)

1. soil, ground

   Synonym: chan

Etymology 2

Borrowed from Italian solo.

Noun

solo m (plural solos)

1. (music) solo (a piece of music for one performer)

   Synonym: só

German

Etymology

Borrowed from Italian solo.

Adjective

solo

1. alone
2. single (not married nor dating)

Italian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?so.lo/
• Rhymes: -olo
• Hyphenation: só?lo

Etymology 1

From Latin s?lus.

Adjective

solo (feminine sola, masculine plural soli, feminine plural sole)

1. alone, by oneself, unattended, unaccompanied, lonely, lone, lonesome

   Synonym: solitario

2. only, single, just one, unique, sole

   Synonym: unico

3. (music) solo (a piece of music for one performer)

   Synonym: assolo

Coordinate terms

• (single): doppio, triplo

Descendants

• ? English: solo
• ? German: solo

Etymology 2

From Latin s?lum.

Adverb

solo

1. only, just, but, alone, merely

   Synonyms: solamente, soltanto

Conjunction

solo

1. (followed by che) but, only

   Synonyms: ma, però

2. (preceded by se) if only

3. (followed by se) only if

Noun

solo m (plural soli, feminine sola)

1. the only one, the only man

   Synonym: unico

Related terms

Anagrams

• Oslo

Latin

Noun

sol?

1. dative singular of solum
2. ablative singular of solum

Adjective

s?l?

1. dative masculine singular of s?lus
2. dative neuter singular of s?lus
3. ablative masculine singular of s?lus
4. ablative neuter singular of s?lus

References

• solo in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• solo in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette

Latvian

Noun

solo m (invariable)

1. (music) solo

Norman

Etymology

Borrowed from English solo.

Noun

solo m (plural solos)

1. (music, Jersey) solo

Northern Sami

Pronunciation

Verb

solo

1. inflection of soallut:
   1. present indicative connegative
   2. second-person singular imperative

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

Borrowed from Italian solo, from Latin solus (“alone”).

Adverb

solo

1. solo

Noun

solo (definite singular soloen, indefinite plural soloer or soli, definite singular soloene or soliene)

1. (music, dance) a solo

References

• “solo” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

Borrowed from Italian solo, from Latin solus (“alone”).

Adverb

solo

1. solo

Noun

solo m (definite singular soloen, indefinite plural soloar, definite plural soloane)

1. (music, dance) a solo

References

• “solo” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Papiamentu

Etymology

From Portuguese sol and Spanish sol and Kabuverdianu sol.

Noun

solo

1. sun

Polish

Etymology

From Italian solo, from Latin s?lus.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?s?.l?/

Noun

solo n (indeclinable)

1. (music) solo (piece of music for one)

   Synonym: solówka

2. (slang) A one-on-one fight usually between schoolers and agreed to in advance.

   Synonym: solówka

Adjective

solo (not comparable)

1. (music) solo (without a companion or instructor)

Adverb

solo (not comparable)

1. (music) solo (alone, without a companion)

   Synonym: pojedynczo

Related terms

• (nouns) solista, solistka, solówka

Further reading

• solo in Wielki s?ownik j?zyka polskiego, Instytut J?zyka Polskiego PAN
• solo in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Portuguese

Pronunciation

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /?s?.lu/
• Hyphenation: so?lo

Etymology 1

From Latin s?lum (“soil, ground”), from Proto-Indo-European *swol- (“sole of the foot”).

Noun

solo m (plural solos)

1. (geology) soil, ground

Derived terms

• subsolo

Etymology 2

Borrowed from Italian solo, from Latin s?lus (“alone, solitary”). Doublet of só.

Noun

solo m (plural solos)

1. (music) solo (a piece of music for one performer)

Quotations

For quotations using this term, see Citations:solo.

Etymology 3

See the etymology of the main entry.

Verb

solo

1. first-person singular (eu) present indicative of solar

Further reading

• “solo” in iDicionário Aulete.
• “solo” in Dicionário inFormal.
• “solo” in Dicionário Aberto based on Novo Diccionário da Língua Portuguesa de Cândido de Figueiredo, 1913
• “solo” in Dicionário infopédia da Língua Portuguesa. Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2021.
• “solo” in Michaelis Dicionário Brasileiro da Língua Portuguesa.
• “solo” in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa.

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?solo/, [?so.lo]
• Homophone: sólo

Etymology 1

From Latin s?lus (“alone, sole, only”).

Adjective

solo (feminine sola, masculine plural solos, feminine plural solas)

1. sole, only, unique, single
2. lonely, lonesome
3. alone, by oneself

Derived terms

• solito
• gato solo
• más solo que la una
• por sí solo
• tejón solo

Related terms

Etymology 2

From Latin s?lum.

Alternative forms

• sólo (deprecated)

Adverb

solo

1. only, solely, just

   Synonyms: solamente, únicamente

2. automatically; self-, by itself

Further reading

• “solo” in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014.

English

Etymology

1595–1605; From Late Latin s?liloquium in the title of St. Augustine's Soliloquiorum libri duo ("Two Books of Soliloquies"), from s?lus (“only, sole”) + loquor (“I speak”).

Pronunciation

• enPR: s?l?l??kw?, IPA^(key): /s??l?l?kwi/
• Hyphenation: so?lil?o?quy

Noun

soliloquy (countable and uncountable, plural soliloquies)

1. (drama) The act of a character speaking to themselves so as to reveal their thoughts to the audience.

   Coordinate term: aside
2. (authorship) A speech or written discourse in this form.

   Synonym: monologue

   Antonyms: colloquy, dialogue, dialog

Usage notes

Primarily used of theater, particularly the works of William Shakespeare, as a term of art, particularly for finely-crafted speeches. An archetype is the “To be, or not to be” soliloquy in Hamlet. In informal speech or discussions of popular culture, the term monologue is used instead. However, the terms are not precisely synonymous; a monologue is held in the presence and directed towards other characters on the stage, whereas a soliloquy does not acknowledge the presence of any other stage characters if present, and is directed to the audience.

Hypernyms

• locution
• oration

Derived terms

• soliloquist
• soliloquize

Related terms

• solo, solitude
• locution – see other terms on same loquor root

Translations

See also

• apostrophe
• stage whisper

Verb

soliloquy (third-person singular simple present soliloquies, present participle soliloquying or soliloquing, simple past and past participle soliloquied)

1. (very rare) To issue a soliloquy.

Synonyms

• soliloquize (much more common)

Further reading

• soliloquy on Wikipedia.Wikipedia