solus

== English == === Etymology === Borrowed from Latin sōlus. === Adjective === solus (not comparable) alone, unaccompanied (as a stage direction) (advertising, dated) Appearing on its own page. 2024, Basant Rathore, Strategic Media Planning and Buying However, within this also, there are options available. Will a Front Page Solus ad work better than a strip ad below the mast head? Will a Top of Column ad work better than […] ==== Derived terms ==== semi-solus === Anagrams === souls == Latin == === Etymology === The word has baffled etymologists for generations. Traditionally explained from earlier *swolos, from Proto-Italic *swelos, from Proto-Indo-European *swé (reflexive pronoun) (whence se (“oneself”)) + *-los, hence meaning "by oneself". De Vaan and other modern researchers refer it to *solh₂- (“whole, healthy”), which would make it akin to sollus and salvus. === Pronunciation === (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [ˈsoː.ɫʊs] (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [ˈsɔː.lus] === Adjective === sōlus (feminine sōla, neuter sōlum); first/second-declension adjective (pronominal declension) alone, sole, only, by oneself with no others around solitary, uninhabited ==== Declension ==== First/second-declension adjective (pronominal declension). ==== Derived terms ==== ==== Descendants ==== === References === De Vaan, Michiel (2008), “sōlus”, in Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 573 “solus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press “solus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers "solus", in Charles du Fresne du Cange, Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887) “solus”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette. Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894), Latin Phrase-Book‎[1], London: Macmillan and Co. “solus”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper’s Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers “solus”, in William Smith, editor (1854, 1857), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography, volume 1 & 2, London: Walton and Maberly == Middle Irish == === Etymology === From Old Irish solus. === Adjective === solus bright clear (of sound) (intellectually) clear, lucid === Noun === solus m light clarity, intelligibility ==== Derived terms ==== solusta ==== Descendants ==== Irish: solas Manx: sollys Scottish Gaelic: solas === Mutation === === Further reading === Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “solus”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language == Old Irish == === Etymology === so- +‎ lés (compare Middle Irish dolus) === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /ˈso.lus/ (Blasse) [ˈso.lus] (Griffith) [ˈso.løs] === Adjective === solus (equative soilsidir) bright, clear ==== Inflection ==== ==== Derived terms ==== follus soilse ==== Descendants ==== Middle Irish: solusIrish: solasManx: sollysScottish Gaelic: solas === Mutation === === Further reading === Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “solus”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language == Sardinian == === Etymology === From Latin solus (“alone (adj.)”). === Adverb === solus (obsolete, archaic) alone, by oneself === References === Hall, Robert Anderson. 1984. Proto-Romance morphology: Comparative Romance grammar. Philadelphia: John Benjamins. Page 31.