Solon

From Ancient Greek Σόλων (Sólōn).

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈsəʊlən/, /ˈsəʊlɒn/^[1]
• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈsoʊlən/,^[2][3] /ˈsoʊˌlɑn/^[3]
• Rhymes: -əʊlɒn

Solon

1. An ancient Athenian statesman and lawgiver, one of the Seven Sages (c.630-c.560 BC).
   • 1820, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Oedipus Tyrannus; Or, Swellfoot The Tyrant: A Tragedy in Two Acts:

     Now if your Majesty would have our bristles
     To bind your mortar with, or fill our colons
     With rich blood, or make brawn out of our gristles,
     In policy—ask else your royal Solons—
     You ought to give us hog-wash and clean straw,
     And sties well thatched; besides it is the law!

   • 1976, L[ilian] H[amilton] Jeffery, “Kylon and Drakon”, in Archaic Greece: The City-States, c. 700-500 b.c., New York, N.Y.: St. Martin’s Press, →LCCN, →OCLC, section II (Central and Northern Greece), subsection 7 (Athens and Attica), page 86:

     [T]he law codes drafted in Athens in the late seventh and early sixth centuries were the work of individuals, Drakon and then Solon.

2. A city in Iowa.
3. A town in Maine.
4. A town in New York.
5. A city in Ohio.

• Olson, loons, snool

Solon

1. a surname

For quotations using this term, see Citations:Solon.

• Solō

Borrowed from Ancient Greek Σόλων (Sólōn).

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈsɔ.ɫoːn]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈsɔː.lon]

Solōn m sg (genitive Solōnis); third declension

1. Solon (legislator of Athens)

Third-declension noun, singular only.

• Catalan: Soló
• → German: Solon
• Italian: Solone

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

Learned borrowing from Ancient Greek Σόλων (Sólōn).

• IPA^(key): /ˈsɔ.lɔn/

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• Rhymes: -ɔlɔn
• Syllabification: So‧lon

Solon m pers

1. (law, politics) Solon (statesman and lawgiver)

• “Solon”, in Polish dictionaries at PWN‎^[1] (in Polish)