Sol

Pronunciation

• RP IPA: /sÉ’l/
• US enPR: sōl, IPA: /soÊŠl/
• Homophones: soul, sole US

From Latin solve in the hymn for St. John the Baptist all note names were take from.

Alternative forms

• so, soh

Full definition of sol

Noun

1. (music) The fifth step in the solfège scale of C (Ut), preceded by fa and followed by la.

Pronunciation

• IPA: /sɑːl/

From Latin sol ("sun")

Noun

1. (astronomy) A solar day on Mars (equivalent to 24 hours, 39 minutes, 35 seconds).
2. (obsolete, alchemy) Gold.

Pronunciation

• IPA: /sɑːl/, /sÉ’l/

From Spanish sol ("sun"), itself from Latin sol ("sun")

Noun

1. A Spanish-American gold or silver coin, now the main currency unit of Peru (also new sol), or a coin of this value.
• unknown date, M. Le Page Du Pratz, History of Louisiana:Three days after, the Great Sun, his brother, sent me another deer-skin of the same oil, to the quantity of forty pints. The most common sort sold this year at twenty sols a pint, and I was sure mine was not of the worst kind.

Pronunciation

• IPA: /sɑːl/, sÉ’l/, soÊŠl/

An abbreviation of solution

Noun

1. (physical chemistry) A type of colloid in which a solid is dispersed in a liquid.

Pronunciation

• IPA: /sɑːl/, /sÉ’l/

From Old French sol, from Latin solidus

Noun

1. An old French coin consisting of 12 deniers.

Anagrams

• LOS