sold
EnglishEdit
Etymology 1Edit
PronunciationEdit
- (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
VerbEdit
sold
- simple past tense and past participle of sell
Derived termsEdit
Etymology 2Edit
From Middle English solde, sould, soud, from Middle French solde, Italian soldo. Compare soldier, sou, and Danish sold (via Low German).
NounEdit
sold
- (obsolete) salary; military pay
- 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
Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for sold in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913)
AnagramsEdit
DanishEdit
Etymology 1Edit
From Old Norse sáld, from Proto-Germanic *sēdlą (“sieve”).
NounEdit
sold n (singular definite soldet, plural indefinite sold)
Etymology 2Edit
From Middle Low German solt.
NounEdit
sold
- a wage, especially one paid to mercenaries
ReferencesEdit
- “sold” in Den Danske Ordbog
RomanianEdit
EtymologyEdit
NounEdit
sold n (plural solduri)
DeclensionEdit
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 |