solum

See also: Solum

English

Etymology

From Latin solum (“base, bottom; soil”). Doublet of soil.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈsəʊləm/
• (US, Canada) IPA^(key): /ˈsoʊləm/
• (General Australian) IPA^(key): /ˈsəʉləm/
• (New Zealand) IPA^(key): /ˈsɐʉləm/
• Rhymes: -əʊləm

Noun

solum (plural solums or sola)

1. Within a soil profile, a set of related soil horizons that share the same cycle of pedogenic processes.
2. The upper layers of a soil profile that are affected by climate.

Anagrams

• LUMOs, Mosul, omuls, mulos

Latin

Etymology 1

From Proto-Italic *solom (“base, sole”), from Proto-Indo-European *solom or *selom (“place, habitation”). Cognate with Lithuanian salà (“island”), Proto-Slavic *selo (“village”) and Proto-Germanic *saliz (“house, dwelling; hall, room”). Related to Latin solea (“sandal, hoof-guard, fettle”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈso.lum/, [ˈs̠ɔɫ̪ʊ̃ˑ]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈso.lum/, [ˈsɔːlum]

Noun

solum n (genitive solī); second declension

1. bottom, ground, base, foundation, bed

   Synonym: fundus

2. floor, pavement
3. ground, earth, land, soil

   Synonyms: terra, tellūs, humus

4. sole (of the foot)
   • c. 99 BCE – 55 BCE, Lucretius, De rerum natura 4.1–2:

     Avia Pieridum peragro loca nullius ante / trita solo.

     I travel through the inaccessible Pierides' region that no one's foot has ever trodden before.

5. (by extension) land, country, region, place

Declension

Second-declension noun (neuter).

	singular	plural
nominative	solum	sola
genitive	solī	solōrum
dative	solō	solīs
accusative	solum	sola
ablative	solō	solīs
vocative	solum	sola

Derived terms

• assolō
• solea

Descendants

• → Basque: zoru
• Catalan: sòl
• → English: solum
• French: sol
• Galician: soio, sollo, solo
• Italian: suolo
• → Old High German: sola
  • Middle High German: sole
    • German: Sohle
    • Hunsrik: Sohl
• Portuguese: solo, solho
• Romanian: sol
• Sicilian: solu
• Spanish: suelo
• → Welsh: syl (in compounds such as sylfaen, sylwedd)
• ⇒ Vulgar Latin: *solaculum
  • Portuguese: soalho
• ⇒ Vulgar Latin: *solium
  • French: seuil

Etymology 2

Adverbial accusative of sōlus (“alone, only”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈsoː.lum/, [ˈs̠oːɫ̪ʊ̃ˑ]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈso.lum/, [ˈsɔːlum]

Adverb

sōlum (not comparable)

1. only, just, barely, merely

   Synonyms: tantum, modo

Derived terms

• sōlummodo

Related terms

• sōlicanus
• sōliloquium
• sōlitāneus
• sōlitārius
• sōlitās
• sōlitātim
• sōlitūdo
• sōlus

 

Descendants

• Catalan: sol
• Italian: solo
• Spanish: solo

Etymology 3

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Adjective

sōlum

1. inflection of sōlus:
   1. nominative/accusative/vocative neuter singular
   2. accusative masculine singular

References

• “solum”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “solum”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• solum in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• Félix Gaffiot (1934) “solum”, in Dictionnaire illustré latin-français [Illustrated Latin-French Dictionary] (in French), Hachette.
• Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
  • (ambiguous) Solon, one of the seven sages: Solo, unus de septem (illis)
    
  • (ambiguous) Solo ordained by law that..: Solo lege sanxit, ut or ne
    
  • (ambiguous) to leave one's country (only used of exiles): solum vertere, mutare (Caecin. 34. 100)
    
  • (ambiguous) Solon made it a capital offence to..: Solo capite sanxit, si quis... (Att. 10. 1)
    
  • (ambiguous) to raze a town to the ground: oppidum solo aequare
    

Old English

Noun

solum

1. dative plural of sol (“mud”)