soler

From sole + -er.

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.

• Leros, lores, Roels, loser, Roles, sorel, slore, roles, Sorel, rôles, eorls, relos, Loser, lo-res, orles, Rosel, Osler

soler

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

From sòl +‎ -er.

• IPA^(key): (Central) [suˈle]
• IPA^(key): (Balearic) [soˈle]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [soˈleɾ]

soler m (plural solers)

1. ground floor

Inherited from Latin solēre.

• IPA^(key): (Central) [suˈlɛ]
• IPA^(key): (Balearic) [soˈlə]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [soˈleɾ]

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

1. (auxiliary) to usually..., to be accustomed to..., to have the habit of...

   solen fer la passejada ― they usually go for a walk

2. (auxiliary) to frequently..., to often...

   al vespre sol fer fresca ― it usually gets cool in the evening

3. (auxiliary, in the imperfect tense) used to

   solia venir cada dijous ― he/she used to come every Thursday

• sòlit

• “soler”, in Diccionari de la llengua catalana [Dictionary of the Catalan Language] (in Catalan), second edition, Institute of Catalan Studies [Catalan: Institut d'Estudis Catalans], April 2007
• “soler”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2026
• “soler” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• Alcover, Antoni Maria; Moll, Francesc de Borja (1963), “soler”, in Diccionari català-valencià-balear (in Catalan)

soler c

1. indefinite plural of sol

soler

1. present of sole

• IPA^(key): /soˈler/
• Rhymes: -er
• Hyphenation: so‧lér

soler (apocopated)

1. apocopic form of solere

• s.hueler, sueler

Inherited from Old Spanish soler (“to use to”), from Latin solēre. Compare Catalan soler, Italian solere, Portuguese soer (archaic) and Spanish soler.

soler (Hebrew spelling סוליר)^[1]

1. (auxiliary) to tend (to); to use to; to have the habit (of); to be accustomed (to); to be wont (to)
   • 2006, Dr. Avner Perez, Agua Fuego i Amor: Gazeles i Kantes Mistikos de los Sabetaistas‎^[1], מכון מעלה אדומים לתיוד השפה הספניולית ותרבותה בשיתוף עם מרכז משה דוד גאון לתרבות הלאדינו, →ISBN:

     Solias de tener kolores i agora estas demudada

     You used to have colours and now you have changed.

sōler

1. first-person singular present active subjunctive of sōlor

soler

1. present of sole

soler f

1. indefinite plural of sol

• IPA^(key): /ˈso.ler/

soler m

1. alternative form of salor

Inherited from Late Latin subtelāris.

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

1. shoe

• French: soulier

• “soler”, in DEAF: Dictionnaire Étymologique de l'Ancien Français, Heidelberg: Heidelberger Akademie der Wissenschaften, 1968-.

Inherited from Latin solēre. Cognate with Old French soloir and Old Galician-Portuguese soer.

soler

1. (auxiliary) to tend (to); to use to; to have the habit (of); to be accustomed (to); to be wont (to)

• Ladino: s.hueler, soler, sueler, סוליר
• Spanish: soler

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

Inherited from Old Spanish soler (“to use to”), from Latin solēre. Compare Catalan soler, Italian solere, Ladino soler and Portuguese soer (archaic).

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

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 tarde ― he 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.

The infinitive, gerund, past participles, preterite, future, subjunctive, conditional and imperative are very rarely used in modern Spanish, but are acceptable.

• “soler”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8.1, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 15 December 2025