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Etymology

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Borrowed from Italian solo, from Latin sōlus, probably related to se (himself).

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    Cardinal: one
    Ordinal: first
    Abbreviated ordinal: 1st
    Latinate ordinal: primary
    Reverse order ordinal: last
    Latinate reverse order ordinal: ultimate
    Adverbial: one time, once
    Multiplier: onefold
    Latinate multiplier: single
    Distributive: singly
    Germanic collective: onesome
    Collective of n parts: singlet, singleton
    Greek or Latinate collective: monad
    Greek collective prefix: mono-
    Latinate collective prefix: uni-
    Fractional: whole
    Elemental: singlet, singleton
    Greek prefix: proto-
    Number of musicians: solo
    Number of years: year

Noun

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solo (plural solos or soli)

  1. (music) A piece of music for one performer.
  2. A job or performance done by one person alone.
  3. (games) A card game similar to whist in which each player plays against the others in turn without a partner
  4. A single shot of espresso.
  5. (Gaelic football) An instance of soloing the football.

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Adjective

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solo (not comparable)

  1. Without a companion or instructor.
  2. (music) Of, or relating to, a musical solo.

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solo (not comparable)

  1. Alone, without a companion.
    • 1970, Paul McCartney (lyrics and music), “Two of Us”, in Let it Be:
      Two of us wearing raincoats / Standing solo / In the sun
    • 1984, “Wake me up before you go-go”, George Michael (lyrics), George Michael (music), performed by Wham!:
      Wake me up before you go-go / 'Cause I'm not plannin' on going solo
    • 2024 July 27, Ian Youngs, “Celine Dion makes stirring comeback at Olympics”, in bbc.com[1]:
      The Canadian superstar had been rumoured to be singing a duet with Lady Gaga, but instead went solo on the Eiffel Tower to bring the four-hour event to a stirring climax.

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solo (third-person singular simple present solos or soloes, present participle soloing, simple past and past participle soloed)

  1. (music) To perform a solo.
  2. To perform something in the absence of anyone else.
  3. (Gaelic football) To drop the ball and then toe-kick it upward into the hands.
  4. (slang) To independently perform an action, especially a challenging task.

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  • Portuguese: solar

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Asturian

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Adjective

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solo

  1. neuter of solu

Bikol Central

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Etymology

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Borrowed from Spanish solo.

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  • IPA(key): /ˈsolo/ [ˈso.l̪o]
  • Hyphenation: so‧lo

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sólo (Basahan spelling ᜐᜓᜎᜓ)

  1. sole, only
    Synonym: bugtong
  2. alone
    Synonym: saro

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Catalan

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Etymology 1

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Borrowed from Italian solo.

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solo m (plural solos)

  1. (music) solo (a piece of music for one performer)
  2. (card games) solo (a trick-taking card game played with 36 cards, similar to frog)
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solo

  1. first-person singular present indicative of solar

Dutch

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Etymology

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Borrowed from Italian solo, from Latin solus.

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  • IPA(key): /ˈsoː.loː/
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  • Hyphenation: so‧lo

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solo m (plural solo's or soli, diminutive solootje n)

  1. (music) solo (piece or passage performed or typified by a single performer)

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Esperanto

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Etymology

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From sola +‎ -o.

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  • IPA(key): [ˈsolo]
  • Rhymes: -olo
  • Hyphenation: so‧lo

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solo (accusative singular solon, plural soloj, accusative plural solojn)

  1. a single, solitary thing
  2. (music) solo
    Synonym: soloo

French

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Etymology

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Borrowed from Italian solo. Doublet of seul.

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solo m (plural solos)

  1. (music) solo (a piece of music for one performer)

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Galician

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Etymology 1

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Derived from Latin solum (soil, ground).

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solo m (plural solos)

  1. soil, ground
    Synonym: chan

Etymology 2

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Borrowed from Italian solo.

Noun

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solo m (plural solos)

  1. (music) solo (a piece of music for one performer)
    Synonym:

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solo

  1. first-person singular present indicative of solar

German

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Etymology

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Borrowed from Italian solo.

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solo (indeclinable, predicative only)

  1. alone
  2. single (not married nor dating)
    Ich bin solo.I'm single.

Higaonon

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Etymology

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From sulu, compare Cebuano sulu.

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solo

  1. lamp

Italian

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Etymology 1

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Derived from Latin sōlus.

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solo (feminine sola, masculine plural soli, feminine plural sole, superlative solissimo)

  1. alone, by oneself, unattended, unaccompanied, lonely, lone, lonesome
    Synonym: solitario
    Non sei solo.You are not alone.
  2. only, single, just one, unique, sole
    Synonym: unico
  3. (music) solo (a piece of music for one performer)
    Synonym: assolo
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Etymology 2

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Derived from Latin sōlum.

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solo

  1. only, just, but, alone, merely
    Synonyms: solamente, soltanto
    solo una voltaonly once
    ha solo quattro annihe's just four

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solo

  1. (followed by che) but, only
    Synonyms: ma, però
  2. (preceded by se) if only
    se solo lui non fosse qui ...if only he was not here ...
  3. (followed by se) only if
    [] solo se lui non è qui. [] only if he is not here.

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solo m (plural soli, feminine sola)

  1. the only one, the only man
    Synonym: unico
    lui è il solo che può ...he is the only one/only man that can ...
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Pronunciation

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  • Audio (Türkiye):(file)

Etymology 1

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Inherited from Old Spanish solo, from Latin sōlus (alone; sole; only).

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solo (Hebrew spelling סולו)[1]

  1. sole; one; only; single (unique)
    • 2005, Aki Yerushalayim[2], volumes 26–28, page 43:
      Los dos livros ke ensenyan konversasion son tambien los solos, de entre el grupo de 16 livros, ke sus buto es unikamente de embezar al elevo a avlar en ebreo.
      The two books that teach conversation are also the only [ones], from among a group of sixteen books, whose purpose is uniquely to teach the pupil to speak in Hebrew.

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Inherited from Old Spanish solo, from Latin sōlum.

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solo (Hebrew spelling סולו)[1]

  1. only; solely; just
    Synonyms: solamente, unikamente
    • 1910, Reuben Eliyahu Israel, Traducsion libera de las poezias ebraicas de Roş Aşana i Kipur[3], Craiova: Institutul Grafic, I. Samitca şi D. Baraş, Socieatate in Comandita, →OCLC, page 12:
      Tu sos envestido i envelupado de giustidad, a ti solo apartiene la sopirioridad
      Si no ai en nozotros ovras ⁴) boenas, acodrate de noestros padres i de sus santedad.
      Siempre los tengas en tu memoria i apiada a tu comunidad
      You are dressed and enveloped with justice, only to you does superiority belong; were good deeds absent from us, remind yourself of our fathers and their holiness. You always have them in memory; rescue your people.

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  1. 1.0 1.1 solo”, in Trezoro de la Lengua Djudeoespanyola.

Latin

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solō

  1. dative/ablative singular of solum

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sōlō

  1. dative/ablative masculine/neuter singular of sōlus

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  • solo”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • solo in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.

Latvian

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solo m (invariable)

  1. (music) solo

Malagasy

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Borrowed from a South Sulawesi language, from Proto-South Sulawesi *sulu(r); compare Makasar suluk.[1]

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sòlo

  1. substitute, replacement

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  1. ^ Alexander Adelaar (2009) “Loanwords in Malagasy”, in Martin Haspelmath, Uri Tadmor, editors, Loanwords in the World's Languages: A Comparative Handbook, Berlin, New York: De Gruyter Mouton, →DOI, →ISBN, page 726 of 717-746

Norman

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Etymology

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Borrowed from English solo.

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solo m (plural solos)

  1. (music, Jersey) solo

Northern Sami

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solo

  1. inflection of soallut:
    1. present indicative connegative
    2. second-person singular imperative

Norwegian Bokmål

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Etymology

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Borrowed from Italian solo, from Latin solus (alone).

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solo

  1. solo

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solo (definite singular soloen, indefinite plural soloer or soli, definite singular soloene or soliene)

  1. (music, dance) a solo

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Etymology

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Borrowed from Italian solo, from Latin solus (alone).

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solo

  1. solo

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solo m (definite singular soloen, indefinite plural soloar, definite plural soloane)

  1. (music, dance) a solo

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solo

  1. Alternative form of soo

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Old Spanish

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Etymology 1

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Inherited from Latin sōlus (alone; sole; only).

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solo

  1. sole; one; only; single (unique)
    • c. 1200, Almerich, Fazienda de Ultramar, f. 15r:
      Clamo amoẏſẽ ⁊ a pharaon. e dixo peq̃ al ur̃o ſẽnor dios. Rogat por mi q̃ me ꝑdone eſta uez ſola. E riedre deſobre my eſta muert. Rogo moiſen al nr̃o ſẽnor. ⁊ veno uiẽto de fauõno ⁊ echo toda la langoſta en la mar.
      Pharaoh called Moses and said, “I have sinned against your Lord God. Pray that He forgive me just this once, and that he remove this death from over me.” [So] Moses prayed to Our Lord, and the west wind came and cast all the locusts into the sea.

Etymology 2

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Inherited from Latin sōlum.

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solo

  1. alone
    • ca. 1284–1295, anonymous, Fuero de Cuenca :
      Qual quier que a otro fuera de su casa metiere palo por el culo, peche dozyentos mr. & salga enemigo, si le fuere prouado; si non, saluese con doze vezinos & sea creydo o jure solo, & rresponda a rriepto, lo que al querelloso mas ploguiere.
      Whosoever inserts a stick in the arse to someone who belongs not to their House shall pay 200 maravedis and become an Enemy, if it is proven; otherwise, may they be saved with twelve neighbours and believed, or may they swear alone responding to a Challenge, whatever the one demanding may prefer.

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  • Ralph Steele Boggs et al. (1946) “solo”, in Tentative Dictionary of Medieval Spanish, volume II, Chapel Hill, page 477

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Etymology

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Derived from Portuguese sol and Spanish sol and Kabuverdianu sol.

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solo

  1. sun

Polish

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Etymology

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Borrowed from Italian solo, from Latin sōlus.

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solo n (indeclinable)

  1. (music) solo (piece of music for one)
    Synonym: solówka
  2. (slang) a one-on-one fight usually between schoolers and agreed to in advance
    Synonym: solówka

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solo (not comparable, no derived adverb)

  1. (music) solo (without a companion or instructor)

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solo (not comparable)

  1. (music) solo (alone, without a companion)
    Synonym: pojedynczo
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Further reading

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  • solo in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
  • solo in Polish dictionaries at PWN

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  • Hyphenation: so‧lo

Etymology 1

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Learned borrowing from Latin solum (soil, ground).

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solo m (plural solos)

  1. (geology) soil, ground
    • 2014, Venceslau de Morais, Paisagens da China e do Japão, Projecto Adamastor, →ISBN, page 97:
      O shogun, generalíssimo do imperador, com residência em Yedo, assinara por conta própria tratados de amizade e de comércio com a América e com a Europa, e os estrangeiros, em Yokohama, pisavam já afoitamente o solo japonês.
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Etymology 2

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Borrowed from Italian solo, from Latin sōlus (alone, solitary). Doublet of .

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solo m (plural solos)

  1. (music) solo (a piece of music for one performer)

Etymology 3

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See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

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solo

  1. first-person singular present indicative of solar

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Romanian

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Etymology

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Unadapted borrowing from Italian solo.

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solo m (plural solouri)

  1. solo

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Declension of solo
singular plural
indefinite definite indefinite definite
nominative-accusative solo soloul solouri solourii
genitive-dative solo soloului solouri solourilor
vocative soloule solourilor

Samoan

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Inherited from Proto-Polynesian *solo₃ “to go quickly”.[1]

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solo

  1. to move swiftly
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  1. ^ Ross Clark and Simon J. Greenhill, editors (2011), “solo.3”, in POLLEX-Online: The Polynesian Lexicon Project Online

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Etymology 1

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Inherited from Old Spanish solo, from Latin sōlus (alone; sole; only).

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solo (feminine sola, masculine plural solos, feminine plural solas)

  1. sole; one; only; single (unique)
  2. lonely, lonesome
  3. alone, by oneself
  4. automatic; self-, by itself
    La máquina se lava sola.
    The machine washes itself; the machine is self-washing.
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Inherited from Old Spanish solo, from Latin sōlum.

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solo

  1. only; solely; just
    Synonyms: solamente, únicamente
    Solo quiero salir.I just want to leave.
    No solo... sino también...Not only... but also...
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solo (comparative mer solo, superlative mest solo)

  1. (predicative only) alone
    Synonym: ensam
    Hon var solo på jobbetShe was alone at work

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solo n

  1. (music) a solo (piece of music or dance performed by or strongly centered on a single or limited number of performers)
    Antonym: tutti
  2. (in compounds) something done alone
    soloflygningsolo flight

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Etymology 1

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Derived from Latin sōl, compare French soleil.

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  • IPA(key): /sɔ.ˈlɔ/
  • Hyphenation: so‧lo

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solo m (plural solos)

  1. (astronomy) sun
    Synonym: solea

Etymology 2

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Borrowed from French solo, from Italian solo.

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  • IPA(key): /sɔ.ˈlɔ/
  • Hyphenation: so‧lo

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solo m (plural solos)

  1. (music) solo