different between soul vs contrapasso

English

Etymology 1

From Middle English soule, sowle, saule, sawle, from Old English s?wol (“soul, life, spirit, being”), from Proto-West Germanic *saiwalu, from Proto-Germanic *saiwal? (“soul”).

Cognate with Scots saul, sowel (“soul”), North Frisian siel, sial (“soul”), Saterland Frisian Seele (“soul”), West Frisian siel (“soul”), Dutch ziel (“soul”), German Seele (“soul”) Scandinavian homonyms seem to have been borrowed from Old Saxon *siala. Modern Danish sjæl, Swedish själ, Norwegian sjel. Icelandic sál may have come from Old English s?wol.

Alternative forms

• sowl (archaic)

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) enPR: s?l, IPA^(key): /s??l/
• (General American) enPR: s?l, IPA^(key): /so?l/
• Rhymes: -??l
• Homophones: Seoul, sole, sowl

Noun

soul (countable and uncountable, plural souls)

1. (religion, folklore) The spirit or essence of a person usually thought to consist of one's thoughts and personality. Often believed to live on after the person's death.
   • 1836, Hans Christian Andersen (translated into English by Mrs. H. B. Paull in 1872), The Little Mermaid

     "Among the daughters of the air," answered one of them. "A mermaid has not an immortal soul, nor can she obtain one unless she wins the love of a human being. On the power of another hangs her eternal destiny. But the daughters of the air, although they do not possess an immortal soul, can, by their good deeds, procure one for themselves.
2. The spirit or essence of anything.
3. Life, energy, vigor.
   • 1728, Edward Young, The Love of Fame

     That he wants algebra he must confess; / But not a soul to give our arms success.

4. (music) Soul music.
5. A person, especially as one among many.
   • 18 January 1915, D. H. Lawrence, letter to William Hopkin

     I want to gather together about twenty souls and sail away from this world of war and squalor and found a little colony where there shall be no money but a sort of communism as far as necessaries of life go, and some real decency.

6. An individual life.

   Fifty souls were lost when the ship sank.

7. (mathematics) A kind of submanifold involved in the soul theorem of Riemannian geometry.

Quotations

For quotations using this term, see Citations:soul.

Synonyms

• (spirit or essence of anything): crux, gist; See also Thesaurus:gist
• (a person): See also Thesaurus:person

Derived terms

Pages starting with “soul”.

Related terms

• mind
• spirit

Translations

Verb

soul (third-person singular simple present souls, present participle souling, simple past and past participle souled)

1. (obsolete, transitive) To endow with a soul; to furnish with a soul or mind.

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2. To beg on All Soul's Day.

   Coordinate term: trick-or-treat

Derived terms

• besoul
• dark night of the soul

Etymology 2

Borrowed from French souler (“to satiate”).

Verb

soul (third-person singular simple present souls, present participle souling, simple past and past participle souled)

1. (obsolete) To afford suitable sustenance.

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References

• soul at OneLook Dictionary Search
• soul in Keywords for Today: A 21st Century Vocabulary, edited by The Keywords Project, Colin MacCabe, Holly Yanacek, 2018.
• soul in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.

Anagrams

• Luso-, luso-

Czech

Noun

soul m

1. soul (music style)

Further reading

• soul in Kartotéka Novo?eského lexikálního archivu

Finnish

Etymology

Borrowed from English soul.

Noun

soul

1. soul music

Declension

Anagrams

• Sulo, solu, sulo, ulos

French

Alternative forms

• soûl, saoul

Etymology 1

From Latin satullus, diminutive of satur.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /su/
• Homophones: sou, sous

Adjective

soul (feminine singular soule, masculine plural souls, feminine plural soules)

1. drunk

   Synonym: ivre

Derived terms

• souler

Etymology 2

Borrowed from English soul.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sol/

Noun

soul f (uncountable)

1. soul, soul music

Further reading

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

Hungarian

Etymology

Borrowed from English soul.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?so?l]
• Hyphenation: soul
• Homophone: szól
• Rhymes: -o?l

Noun

soul (plural soulok)

1. (music) soul music

Declension

Derived terms

• soulzene

Italian

Etymology

Borrowed from English soul.

Noun

soul m or f (invariable)

1. soul music

Old French

Adjective

soul m (oblique and nominative feminine singular soule)

1. Alternative form of sol

Declension

Polish

Etymology

Borrowed from English soul.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /s?wl/

Noun

soul m inan

1. soul music

Declension

Portuguese

Etymology

Borrowed from English soul.

Pronunciation

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /sow/
  • Homophone: sou (when pronounced with the /w/)

Noun

soul m (uncountable)

1. (music) soul music (a music genre combining gospel music, rhythm and blues and often jazz)

Spanish

Etymology

Borrowed from English soul.

Noun

soul m (uncountable)

1. soul, soul music

English

Etymology

Coined by Dante in his work Inferno, from contra (“counter”) and passo (“step, pace”).

Noun

contrapasso (uncountable)

1. The concept that the punishment of an individual's soul in Hell corresponds to the sin that person committed on earth.

See also

• poetic justice

Italian

Noun

contrapasso m (plural contrapassi)

1. Alternative form of contrappasso