different between sour vs solemn
sour
English
Alternative forms
- sower, sowre (obsolete)
Etymology
From Middle English sour, from Old English s?r (“sour”), from Proto-West Germanic *s?r, from Proto-Germanic *s?raz (“sour”), from Proto-Indo-European *súHros (“sour”). Cognate with West Frisian soer, Dutch zuur (“sour”), Low German suur, German sauer (“sour”), Danish, Swedish and Norwegian sur, French sur (“sour”), Faroese súrur (“sour”), Icelandic súr (“sour, bitter”).
Pronunciation
- (General American) IPA(key): /?sa?(?)?/
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /?sa??/
- Rhymes: -a??(?)
- Rhymes: -a?.?(?)
Adjective
sour (comparative sourer, superlative sourest)
- Having an acidic, sharp or tangy taste.
- 2018 May 16, Adam Rogers, Wired, "The Fundamental Nihilism of Yanny vs. Laurel":
- A few types of molecules get sensed by receptors on the tongue. Protons coming off of acids ping receptors for "sour." Sugars get received as "sweet." Bitter, salty, and the proteinaceous flavor umami all set off their own neural cascades.
- 2018 May 16, Adam Rogers, Wired, "The Fundamental Nihilism of Yanny vs. Laurel":
- Made rancid by fermentation, etc.
- Tasting or smelling rancid.
- (of a person's character) Peevish or bad-tempered.
- (of soil) Excessively acidic and thus infertile.
- (of petroleum) Containing excess sulfur.
- Unfortunate or unfavorable.
- (music) Off-pitch, out of tune.
Antonyms
- (petroleum): sweet
Derived terms
- go sour
- sourly
- sourness
Translations
Noun
sour (countable and uncountable, plural sours)
- The sensation of a sour taste.
- (Can we add an example for this sense?)
- A drink made with whiskey, lemon or lime juice and sugar.
- (Can we add an example for this sense?)
- (by extension) Any cocktail containing lemon or lime juice.
- A sour or acid substance; whatever produces a painful effect.
- The acidic solution used in souring fabric.
Derived terms
- laundry sour
Translations
Verb
sour (third-person singular simple present sours, present participle souring, simple past and past participle soured)
- (transitive) To make sour.
- (intransitive) To become sour.
- 1720, Jonathan Swift, To Stella, on transcribing my Poems
- So the sun's heat, with different powers, / Ripens the grape, the liquor sours.
- 1720, Jonathan Swift, To Stella, on transcribing my Poems
- (transitive) To spoil or mar; to make disenchanted.
- He was prudent and industrious, and so good a husbandman, that he might have led a very easy and comfortable life, had not an arrant vixen of a wife soured his domestic quiet.
- (intransitive) To become disenchanted.
- (transitive) To make (soil) cold and unproductive.
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Mortimer to this entry?)
- To macerate (lime) and render it fit for plaster or mortar.
- (transitive) To process (fabric) after bleaching, using hydrochloric acid or sulphuric acid to wash out the lime.
Derived terms
- besour
- unsour
Translations
Anagrams
- Ruso, ours
French
Adjective
sour (feminine singular soure, masculine plural sours, feminine plural soures)
- (nonstandard) Alternative form of sûr
Preposition
sour
- (nonstandard) Alternative form of sur
Middle English
Etymology 1
From Old English s?r
Alternative forms
- sower, soure, sowre
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /su?r/
Adjective
sour
- sour, acidic, bitter
- foul-smelling, rancid
- fermented, curdled
- unpleasant, unattractive
Descendants
- English: sour
- Scots: sour
Etymology 2
From Old French essorer.
Verb
sour
- Alternative form of soren (“to soar”)
Romansch
Alternative forms
- (Rumantsch Grischun, Sursilvan, Sutsilvan, Surmiran) sora
Etymology
From Latin soror, from Proto-Indo-European *swés?r.
Noun
sour f (plural sours)
- (Puter, Vallader) sister
Coordinate terms
- (in terms of gender):
- (Rumantsch Grischun, Sursilvan, Sutsilvan, Surmiran, Vallader) frar
- (Puter) frer
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solemn
English
Etymology
From Middle English solempne, solemne (“performed with religious ceremony or reverence; devoted to religious observances, sacred; ceremonious, formal; of a vow: made under a religious sanction, binding; religious celebration, celebration of a feast day; famous, well-known; important; grand, imposing; awe-inspiring, impressive; grave, serious; dignified; enunciated or held formally”) [and other forms], from Old French solempne, solemne (“serious, solemn”) [and other forms], or from its etymon Late Latin s?lempnis, s?lennis, from Latin s?lemnis, from sollemnis (“appointed, established, fixed; common, customary, ordinary, ritual, traditional, usual; ceremonial, religious, solemn; festive; annual, yearly”) [and other forms]. The further etymology is uncertain; sollus (“entire, whole”) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *solh?- (“whole”)) + epulum (“banquet, feast”) (in the sense of a ritual; perhaps ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *h?ed- (“to eat”)) has been suggested.
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /?s?l?m/
- (General American) IPA(key): /?s?l?m/
- Hyphenation: sol?emn
Adjective
solemn (comparative solemner or more solemn, superlative solemnest or most solemn)
- (religion, specifically Christianity) Of or pertaining to religious ceremonies and rites; (generally) religious in nature; sacred.
- (by extension)
- Characterized by or performed with appropriate or great ceremony or formality.
- Deeply serious and sombre; grave.
- Synonyms: see Thesaurus:serious
- Antonyms: lighthearted, unserious
- Inspiring serious feelings or thoughts; sombrely impressive.
- Synonym: awe-inspiring
- (obsolete) Cheerless, gloomy, sombre.
- Synonyms: see Thesaurus:cheerless
- Antonyms: cheerful; see also Thesaurus:blissful
Derived terms
Related terms
Translations
References
Further reading
- solemnity on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
- solemn (disambiguation) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Anagrams
- Lemnos, Melson, Selmon, Smolen, lemons, losmen, melons, nmoles
Romanian
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin sollemnis.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /so?lemn/
Adjective
solemn m or n (feminine singular solemn?, masculine plural solemni, feminine and neuter plural solemne)
- solemn, grave, serious
- impressive, exalted
- festive, celebratory
Declension
Synonyms
- (grave): grav, serios
- (festive): festiv, s?rb?toresc
Related terms
- solemnitate
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