solo

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

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

• Audio (Southern England):

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• Rhymes: (US, Canada) -oʊloʊ, (UK) -əʊləʊ

English numbers ^(edit)

		10
		1	2  → [a], [b], [c]	10  →
Cardinal: one     Ordinal: first     Abbreviated ordinal: 1st     Latinate ordinal: primary     Reverse order ordinal: last     Latinate reverse order ordinal: ultimate     Adverbial: one time, once     Multiplier: onefold     Latinate multiplier: single     Distributive: singly     Germanic collective: onesome     Collective of n parts: singlet, singleton     Greek or Latinate collective: monad     Greek collective prefix: mono-     Latinate collective prefix: uni-     Fractional: whole     Elemental: singlet, singleton     Greek prefix: proto-     Number of musicians: solo     Number of years: year

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 (not comparable)

1. Without a companion or instructor.
2. (music) Of, or relating to, a musical solo.
   • 2026 March 29, Matt Mitchell, “In LA, Paul McCartney is king”, in AV Club‎^[1], archived from the original on 30 March 2026:

     I can appreciate that Macca’s band plays faithful to the source material, never putting too obvious a personal spin on the music. It’s sometimes frustrating, especially when the solo part in “Get Back” is screaming for some impromptu finesse, but it’s mostly fair.

solo (not comparable)

1. Alone, without a companion.
   • 1970, Paul McCartney, “Two of Us”, in Let it Be:

     Two of us wearing raincoats / Standing solo / In the sun

   • 1984, “Wake me up before you go-go”, George Michael (lyrics), George Michael (music), performed by Wham!:

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

   • 2024 July 27, Ian Youngs, “Celine Dion makes stirring comeback at Olympics”, in BBC‎^[2], archived from the original on 4 August 2025:

     The Canadian superstar had been rumoured to be singing a duet with Lady Gaga, but instead went solo on the Eiffel Tower to bring the four-hour event to a stirring climax.

• solo queue

solo (third-person singular simple present solos or 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.
4. (slang) To independently perform an action, especially a challenging task.

• → Portuguese: solar

• Thesaurus:number

• Loos, OOLs, Oslo, loos, sloo, sool

• IPA^(key): /ˈsolo/ [ˈso.lo]
• Rhymes: -olo
• Syllabification: so‧lo

solo

1. neuter of solu

Borrowed from Italian solo.

• IPA^(key): (Central) [ˈsɔ.lu]
• IPA^(key): (Balearic) [ˈsɔ.lo]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [ˈso.lo]

solo m (plural solos)

1. (music) solo (a piece of music for one performer)
2. (card games) solo (a trick-taking card game played with 36 cards, similar to frog)

• solista

• “solo”, 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
• “solo”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2026
• “solo” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• Alcover, Antoni Maria; Moll, Francesc de Borja (1963), “solo”, in Diccionari català-valencià-balear (in Catalan)

• IPA^(key): (Central) [ˈsɔ.lu]
• IPA^(key): (Balearic, Valencia) [ˈsɔ.lo]

solo

1. first-person singular present indicative of solar

Borrowed from Spanish solo.

• IPA^(key): /ˈsolo/ [ˈso.l̪o]
• Hyphenation: so‧lo

sólo (Basahan spelling ᜐᜓᜎᜓ)

1. sole, only

   Synonym: bugtong

2. alone

   Synonym: saro

Borrowed from Italian solo, from Latin solus.

• IPA^(key): /ˈsoː.loː/

• Audio:

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• Hyphenation: so‧lo

solo m (plural solo's or soli, diminutive solootje n)

1. (music) solo (piece or passage performed or typified by a single performer)

• drumsolo
• gitaarsolo
• solist
• soloactie

From sola +‎ -o.

• IPA^(key): /ˈsolo/
• Rhymes: -olo
• Syllabification: so‧lo

solo (accusative singular solon, plural soloj, accusative plural solojn)

1. a single, solitary thing
2. (music) solo

   Synonym: soloo

• “solo”, in Plena Ilustrita Vortaro de Esperanto [Complete Illustrated Dictionary of Esperanto], 2020, →ISBN
• “solo”, in Reta Vortaro [Online Dictionary] (in Esperanto), 1997-2026

Borrowed from Italian solo. Doublet of seul.

• IPA^(key): /sɔ.lo/

• Audio (France (Lyon)):

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solo m (plural solos)

1. (music) solo (a piece of music for one performer)

• duo, trio

• “solo”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012

Derived from Latin solum (“soil, ground”).

solo m (plural solos)

1. soil, ground

   Synonym: chan

Borrowed from Italian solo.

solo m (plural solos)

1. (music) solo (a piece of music for one performer)

   Synonym: só

solo

1. first-person singular present indicative of solar

Borrowed from Italian solo.

solo (indeclinable, predicative only)

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

   Ich bin solo. ― I'm single.

From sulu, compare Cebuano sulu.

solo

1. lamp

• (Standard Indonesian) IPA^(key): /ˈsolo/ [ˈso.lo]
• Rhymes: -olo
• Syllabification: so‧lo
• Homophone: Solo

Borrowed from Dutch solo, from Italian solo, from Latin solus.

solo (plural solo-solo)

1. (music) solo (piece or passage performed or typified by a single performer)

solo (comparative lebih solo, superlative paling solo)

1. solo
   1. without a companion or instructor.
   2. (music) of, or relating to, a musical solo.

Borrowed from Madurese [Term?]

solo

1. catch fish at night

Borrowed from Madurese [Term?]

solo (comparative lebih solo, superlative paling solo)

1. almost old

• “solo”, in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia [Great Dictionary of the Indonesian Language] (in Indonesian), Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016

• IPA^(key): /ˈso.lo/

• Audio:

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• Rhymes: -olo
• Hyphenation: só‧lo

Derived from Latin sōlus.

solo (feminine sola, masculine plural soli, feminine plural sole, superlative solissimo)

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

   Synonym: solitario

   Non sei solo. ― You are not alone.

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

   Synonym: unico

3. (music) solo (a piece of music for one performer)

   Synonym: assolo

• (single): doppio, triplo

• solamente
• da solo

• → English: solo
• → German: solo

Derived 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

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Inherited from Old Spanish solo, from Latin sōlus (“alone; sole; only”).

solo (Hebrew spelling סולו)^[1]

1. sole; one; only; single (unique)
   • 2005, Aki Yerushalayim‎^[3], volumes 26–28, page 43:

     Los dos livros ke ensenyan konversasion son tambien los solos, de entre el grupo de 16 livros, ke sus buto es unikamente de embezar al elevo a avlar en ebreo.

     The two books that teach conversation are also the only [ones], from among a group of sixteen books, whose purpose is uniquely to teach the pupil to speak in Hebrew.

Inherited from Old Spanish solo, from Latin sōlum.

solo (Hebrew spelling סולו)^[1]

1. only; solely; just

   Synonyms: solamente, unikamente

   • 1910, Reuben Eliyahu Israel, Traducsion libera de las poezias ebraicas de Roş Aşana i Kipur‎^[4], Craiova: Institutul Grafic, I. Samitca şi D. Baraş, Socieatate in Comandita, →OCLC, page 12:

     Tu sos envestido i envelupado de giustidad, a ti solo apartiene la sopirioridad
     Si no ai en nozotros ovras ⁴) boenas, acodrate de noestros padres i de sus santedad.
     Siempre los tengas en tu memoria i apiada a tu comunidad

     You are dressed and enveloped with justice, only to you does superiority belong; were good deeds absent from us, remind yourself of our fathers and their holiness. You always have them in memory; rescue your people.

solō

1. dative/ablative singular of solum

sōlō

1. dative/ablative masculine/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

solo

1. true

Borrowed from a South Sulawesi language, from Proto-South Sulawesi *sulu(r); compare Makasar suluk.^[1]

• IPA^(key): /ˈsulu/, [ˈsulʷ]

sòlo

1. substitute, replacement

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

Borrowed from Italian solo, from Latin solus (“alone”).

solo

1. solo

solo (definite singular soloen, indefinite plural soloer or soli, definite singular soloene or soliene)

1. (music, dance) a solo

• “solo” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Borrowed from Italian solo, from Latin solus (“alone”).

solo

1. solo

solo m (definite singular soloen, indefinite plural soloar, definite plural soloane)

1. (music, dance) a solo

• “solo” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

solo

1. alternative form of soo

• Barreiro, Xavier Varela; Guinovart, Xavier Gómez (2006–2018), “solo”, in Corpus Xelmírez: corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval [Corpus Xelmírez: linguistic corpus of Medieval Galicia] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Seoane, Ernesto Xosé González; Granja, María Álvarez de la; Agrelo, Ana Isabel Boullón (2006–2022), “solo”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval [Dictionary of dictionaries of Medieval Galician] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Ferreiro, Manuel (2014–2026), “solo”, in Universo Cantigas: edición crítica da poesía medieval galego-portuguesa [Universo Cantigas: critical edition of Galician-Portuguese medieval poetry] (in Galician), A Coruña: University of A Coruña, →ISSN

Inherited from Latin sōlus (“alone; sole; only”).

solo

1. sole; one; only; single (unique)
   • c. 1200, Almerich, Fazienda de Ultramar, f. 15r:

     Clamo amoẏſẽ ⁊ a pharaon. e dixo peq̃ al ur̃o ſẽnor dios. Rogat por mi q̃ me ꝑdone eſta uez ſola. E riedre deſobre my eſta muert. Rogo moiſen al nr̃o ſẽnor. ⁊ veno uiẽto de fauõno ⁊ echo toda la langoſta en la mar.

     [Clamó a Moysen e a Pharaon e dixo, “Pequé al vuestro Sennor Dios. Rogad por mi que me perdone esta vez sola e riedre de sobre mí esta muert.” Rogó Moysen al nuestro Sennor, e veno viento de favonno e echó toda la langosta en la mar.]

     Pharaoh called Moses and said, “I have sinned against your Lord God. Pray that He forgive me just this once, and that he remove this death from over me.” [So] Moses prayed to Our Lord, and the west wind came and cast all the locusts into the sea.

Inherited from Latin sōlum.

solo

1. alone
   • ca. 1284–1295, anonymous, Fuero de Cuenca:

     Qual quier que a otro fuera de su casa metiere palo por el culo, peche dozyentos mr. & salga enemigo, si le fuere prouado; si non, saluese con doze vezinos & sea creydo o jure solo, & rresponda a rriepto, lo que al querelloso mas ploguiere.

     Whosoever inserts a stick in the arse to someone who belongs not to their House shall pay 200 maravedis and become an Enemy, if it is proven; otherwise, may they be saved with twelve neighbours and believed, or may they swear alone responding to a Challenge, whatever the one demanding may prefer.

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

Derived from Portuguese sol and Spanish sol and Kabuverdianu sol.

solo

1. sun

Borrowed from Italian solo, from Latin sōlus.

• IPA^(key): /ˈsɔ.lɔ/

• Audio:

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• Rhymes: -ɔlɔ
• Syllabification: so‧lo

solo n (indeclinable)

1. (music) solo (piece of music for one)

   Synonym: solówka

2. (slang) a one-on-one fight usually between schoolers and agreed to in advance

   Synonym: solówka

solo (not comparable, no derived adverb)

1. (music) solo (without a companion or instructor)

solo (not comparable)

1. (music) solo (alone, without a companion)

   Synonym: pojedynczo

• “solo”, in Wielki słownik języka polskiego‎^[5] (in Polish), Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• “solo”, in Polish dictionaries at PWN‎^[6] (in Polish)

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• Hyphenation: so‧lo

Learned borrowing from Latin solum (“soil, ground”).

solo m (plural solos)

1. (geology) soil, ground
   • 2014, Venceslau de Morais, Paisagens da China e do Japão, Projecto Adamastor, →ISBN, page 97:

     O shogun, generalíssimo do imperador, com residência em Yedo, assinara por conta própria tratados de amizade e de comércio com a América e com a Europa, e os estrangeiros, em Yokohama, pisavam já afoitamente o solo japonês.

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• subsolo

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

solo m (plural solos)

1. (music) solo (a piece of music for one performer)

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

solo

1. first-person singular present indicative of solar

• “solo”, in Dicionário Aulete Digital (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2026
• “solo”, in Dicionário inFormal (in Portuguese), 2006–2026
• “solo” in Dicionário Aberto based on Novo Diccionário da Língua Portuguesa de Cândido de Figueiredo, 1913
• “solo”, in Dicionário infopédia da Lingua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2026
• “solo”, in Michaelis Dicionário Brasileiro da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), São Paulo: Editora Melhoramentos, 2015–2026, →ISBN
• “solo”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2026

Unadapted borrowing from Italian solo.

solo m (plural solouri)

1. solo

Inherited from Proto-Polynesian *solo₃ “to go quickly”.^[1]

solo

1. to move swiftly

• gāsolo
• solofanua

• IPA^(key): /ˈsolo/ [ˈso.lo]

• Audio (Colombia):

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• Rhymes: -olo
• Syllabification: so‧lo
• Homophone: sólo

Inherited from Old Spanish solo, from Latin sōlus (“alone; sole; only”).

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

1. sole; one; only; single (unique)
2. lonely, lonesome
3. alone, by oneself
4. automatic; self-, by itself

   La máquina se lava sola.

   The machine washes itself (i.e. it is self-washing)

Inherited from Old Spanish solo, from Latin sōlum.

solo

1. only; solely; just

   Synonyms: solamente, únicamente

   Solo quiero salir. ― I just want to leave.

   No solo... sino también... ― Not only... but also...

• sólo (superseded)

• “solo”, 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

solo (comparative mer solo, superlative mest solo)

1. (predicative only) alone

   Synonym: ensam

   Hon var solo på jobbet ― She was alone at work

solo n

1. (music) a solo (piece of music or dance performed by or strongly centered on a single or limited number of performers)

   Antonym: tutti

2. (in compounds) something done alone

   soloflygning ― solo flight

• “solo”, in Svensk ordbok [Dictionary of Swedish] (in Swedish)
• “solo”, in Svenska Akademiens ordlista [Wordlist of the Swedish Academy] (in Swedish)
• “solo”, in Svenska Akademiens ordbok [Dictionary of the Swedish Academy] (in Swedish)

• (Standard Tagalog) IPA^(key): /ˈsolo/ [ˈsoː.lo]
• Rhymes: -olo
• Syllabification: so‧lo

Borrowed from Spanish solo, from Old Spanish solo, from Latin sōlus.

solo (Baybayin spelling ᜐᜓᜎᜓ)

1. sole; only

   Synonyms: tangi, kaisa-isa, natatangi, bugtong

2. alone

   Synonym: nag-iisa

solo (Baybayin spelling ᜐᜓᜎᜓ)

1. (music) solo (piece of music for one)

From monophthongization and contraction of saulo.

solo (Baybayin spelling ᜐᜓᜎᜓ) (colloquial, Batangas)

1. pronunciation spelling of saulo

Derived from Latin sōl, compare French soleil.

• IPA^(key): /sɔ.ˈlɔ/
• Hyphenation: so‧lo

solo m (plural solos)

1. (astronomy) sun

   Synonym: solea

Borrowed from French solo, from Italian solo.

• IPA^(key): /sɔ.ˈlɔ/
• Hyphenation: so‧lo

solo m (plural solos)

1. (music) solo