soler

See also: Soler and sôler

English

Etymology 1

sole + -er

Noun

soler (plural solers)

  1. One who fits the soles to shoes.
    • 1890, John Martine, Reminiscences and Notices of Fourteen Parishes of the County of Haddington, page 88:
      He was a great mender and soler of shoes, and even could make new ones very strong and coarse.

Etymology 2

See solar.

Noun

soler (plural solers)

  1. (archaic) A loft or garret.
Alternative forms

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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.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 soler”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

Anagrams

Asturian

Verb

soler

  1. to usually...(do something); to tend to

Catalan

Etymology 1

From sòl + -er.

Pronunciation

Noun

soler m (plural solers)

  1. ground floor

Etymology 2

Inherited from Latin solēre.

Pronunciation

Verb

soler (first-person singular present solc, no first-person singular preterite, no past participle); root stress: (Central, Valencian, Balearic) /ɔ/

  1. (auxiliary) to usually..., to be accustomed to..., to have the habit of...
    solen fer la passejadathey usually go for a walk
  2. (auxiliary) to frequently..., to often...
    al vespre sol fer frescait usually gets cool in the evening
  3. (auxiliary, in the imperfect tense) used to
    solia venir cada dijoushe/she used to come every Thursday
Conjugation

Further reading

Danish

Noun

soler c

  1. indefinite plural of sol

Verb

soler

  1. present of sole

Old French

Etymology

Inherited from Late Latin subtelāris.

Noun

soler oblique singular, m (oblique plural solers, nominative singular solers, nominative plural soler)

  1. shoe

Descendants

  • French: soulier

References

Latin

Verb

sōler

  1. first-person singular present active subjunctive of sōlor

Norwegian Bokmål

Verb

soler

  1. present of sole

Norwegian Nynorsk

Noun

soler f

  1. indefinite plural of sol

Spanish

Etymology

Inherited from Latin solēre. Compare Catalan soler, Italian solere and Portuguese soer (archaic).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /soˈleɾ/ [soˈleɾ]
  • Rhymes: -eɾ
  • Syllabification: so‧ler

Verb

soler (first-person singular present suelo, first-person singular preterite solí, past participle (rare but acceptable) solido)

  1. (auxiliary) to be accustomed to doing something, to do something on a regular basis, to do something usually or often
    suele llegar tardehe usually arrives late
  2. (auxiliary) to tend to
    Por lo general no dice nada que merezca la pena oír, así que suelo simplemente ignorarlo.
    He generally doesn't say anything worth hearing, so I usually just ignore him.
  3. (imperfect) used to
    Aquí solía estar la tele.
    This is where the television used to be.

Conjugation

The future and conditional tend to be neglected in modern Spanish, but are acceptable.

Further reading

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