sold
English edit
Etymology 1 edit
Pronunciation edit
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈsəʊld/, [ˈsɒʊ(ɫ)d]
- (US) IPA(key): /ˈsoʊld/
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- (New Zealand, General Australian) IPA(key): /sɐʉld/, [sɒʊ(ɫ)d]
- Rhymes: -əʊld
Verb edit
sold
- simple past and past participle of sell
Derived terms edit
Etymology 2 edit
From Middle English solde, sould, soud, from Middle French solde, Italian soldo. Compare soldier, sou, and Danish sold (via Low German).
Noun edit
sold
- (obsolete) salary; military pay[1]
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book II, Canto IX”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
- But were your will her sold to entertaine
- 1601, William Barlow, A Defense of the Articles of the Protestant Religion in answer to a libell lately cast abroad:
- Lying in campe under sold and pay, fighting as souldiers.
References edit
- ^ “sold”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
Anagrams edit
Danish edit
Etymology 1 edit
From Old Norse sáld, from Proto-Germanic *sēdlą (“sieve”).
Noun edit
sold n (singular definite soldet, plural indefinite sold)
Etymology 2 edit
From Middle Low German solt.
Noun edit
sold
- a wage, especially one paid to mercenaries
References edit
- “sold” in Den Danske Ordbog
Romanian edit
Etymology edit
Noun edit
sold n (plural solduri)
Declension edit
Declension of sold
singular | plural | |||
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indefinite articulation | definite articulation | indefinite articulation | definite articulation | |
nominative/accusative | (un) sold | soldul | (niște) solduri | soldurile |
genitive/dative | (unui) sold | soldului | (unor) solduri | soldurilor |
vocative | soldule | soldurilor |