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
- 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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.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, 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 |