sol

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  1. noun Music The fifth tone of the diatonic scale in solfeggio.
  2. noun An old French coin worth 12 deniers.
  3. noun See Table at currency.
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  • Companies exist for the sol purpose of making money.
  • On the next sol, the RAT successfully brushed the surface. —  Mars News from MarsDaily.com
  • Dile al sol ( "Tell it to the Sun," 1998), El viaje de Copperpot —  AskMen.com - HOME PAGE
  • The following sol -- the seventh anniversary of 9 / 11 - —  Planetary Society Daily Almanac
  • What happens when a groups of Elite Yelpers have too much time on their hands? la fonda del sol -- 212 867 6767 -- 1 ring, good evening, yes, what time? we have la sirene -- 212 925 3061 -- 2 rings, la sirene, we have place for —  Eater
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  1. Middle English, from Medieval Latin; see gamut.
  2. French, from Old French, from Late Latin solidus, solidus; see solidus.
  3. Spanish, sun (from the drawing on the coin), from Latin sōl, sun; see sāwel- in Indo-European roots.
  4. From solution.

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  1. Used chiefly as mere L.; Middle English sol (in def. 3); = Old French sol (dim, soleil, solail, soleis, etc., French soleil) = Spanish Portuguese sol. = Italian sole; from Latin sōl, the sun, = Anglo-Saxon sōl, the sun (sōl-mōnath, February), = Icelandic sōl = Swedish Danish sol = Gothic (Moesogothic) sauil = Welsh haul = Irish sul = Lithuanian Lettish Old Prussian saule, the sun; also with added suffixes, in Teutonic and Slav, forms, Anglo-Saxon sunne, etc., English sun: see sun.
  2. from Old French sol, later sou, French sou = Italian soldo, from Middle Latin solidus, a coin, from Latin solidus, solid: see solid, solidus, and cf. sou, soldo, sold, etc.
  3. Spanish sol, lit, sun: see sol.
  4. = F. Spanish Portuguese Italian sol: see gamut.
 

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