solo

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

• (US, Canada) IPA^(key): /ˈsoʊ.loʊ/
• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈsəʊ.ləʊ/

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.

• (coffee): doppio, triplo (rare)

solo (comparative more solo, superlative most solo)

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

solo (not comparable)

1. Alone, without a companion.
   • 1984, George Michael (lyrics), George Michael (music), “Wake me up before you go-go”, performed by Wham!:

     Wake me up before you go-go / 'Cause I'm not plannin' on going solo

solo (third-person singular simple present 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.

• solitaire

• Loos, OOLs, Oslo, loos, sloo, sool

Borrowed from Italian solo. Doublet of seul.

• IPA^(key): /sɔ.lo/

solo m (plural solos)

1. (music) solo

• duo, trio

• “solo” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

From Latin sōlum (“soil, ground”).

solo m (plural solos)

1. soil, ground

   Synonym: chan

Borrowed from Italian solo.

solo m (plural solos)

1. solo

   Synonym: só

Borrowed from Italian solo.

solo

1. alone
2. single (not married nor dating)

   Ich bin solo. ― I'm single.

• IPA^(key): /ˈso.lo/, [ˈs̪oːl̺o]

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• Rhymes: -olo
• Stress: sólo
• Hyphenation: so‧lo

From Latin sōlus.

solo (feminine singular sola, masculine plural soli, feminine plural sole)

1. alone, by oneself, unattended, unaccompanied, lonely, lone, lonesome

   Synonym: solitario

2. only, single, just one, unique, sole

   Synonym: unico

3. (music) solo

   Synonym: assolo

• (single): doppio, triplo

• → English: solo
• → German: solo

From Latin sōlum.

solo

1. only, just, but, alone, merely

   Synonyms: solamente, soltanto

   solo una volta ― only once

   ha solo quattro anni ― he's just four

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.

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 ...

• Oslo

solō

1. dative singular of solum
2. ablative singular of solum

sōlō

1. dative masculine singular of sōlus
2. dative neuter singular of sōlus
3. ablative masculine singular of sōlus
4. ablative neuter singular of sōlus

• 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

solo m (invariable)

1. (music) solo

Borrowed from English solo.

solo m (plural solos)

1. (music, Jersey) solo

solo

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

From Portuguese sol and Spanish sol and Kabuverdianu sol.

solo

1. sun

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ˈsɔ.lu/

From Latin sōlum (“soil, ground”), from Proto-Indo-European *swol- (“sole of the foot”).

solo m (plural solos)

1. (geology) soil, ground

• subsolo

Borrowed from Italian solo, from Latin sōlus (“alone, solitary”). Cognate of só.

solo m (plural solos)

1. (music) solo

For quotations of use of this term, see Citations:solo.

• IPA^(key): /ˈsolo/

From Latin sōlus (“alone, sole, only”).

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

1. sole, only, unique, single
2. lonely, lonesome
3. alone, by oneself

• solito

From Latin sōlum.

• sólo (deprecated)

solo

1. only, solely, just

   Synonyms: solamente, únicamente

   Solo quiero salir. ― I just want to leave.

• “solo” in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014.