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

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| | 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.

piece of music for one

card game

solo (not comparable)

  1. Without a companion or instructor.
    • 2026 May, Julie Belcove, “Farm Fresh”, in Architectural Digest, volume 83, number 4, page 93:
      Represented by Olney Gleason gallery, she was the subject of a 2025 solo show at the MSU Broad Art Museum in Michigan and recently unveiled a permanent installation at the Princeton University Art Museum.
  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.

without a companion or instructor

of a musical solo

solo (not comparable)

  1. Alone, without a companion.
    • 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 (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.

to perform a solo

solo

  1. neuter of solu

Borrowed from Italian solo.

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)

solo

  1. first-person singular present indicative of solar

Borrowed from Spanish solo.

sólo (Basahan spelling ᜐᜓᜎᜓ)

  1. sole, only
    Synonym: bugtong
  2. alone
    Synonym: saro

Borrowed from Italian solo, from Latin solus.

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

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

From sola +‎ -o.

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

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

Borrowed from Italian solo. Doublet of seul.

solo m (plural solos)

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

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

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

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

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 ...

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.

  2. ↑ 1.0 1.1 “solo”, in Trezoro de la Lengua Djudeoespanyola [Treasury of the Judeo-Spanish Language] (in Ladino, Hebrew, and English), Instituto Maale Adumim

solō

  1. dative/ablative singular of solum

sōlō

  1. dative/ablative masculine/neuter singular of sōlus

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]

sòlo

  1. substitute, replacement

  2. ^ Alexander Adelaar (2009), “Loanwords in Malagasy”, in Martin Haspelmath, Uri Tadmor, editors, Loanwords in the World's Languages: A Comparative Handbook, Berlin, New York: De Gruyter Mouton, →DOI, →ISBN, page 726 of 717-746

Borrowed from English solo.

solo m (plural solos)

  1. (music, Jersey) solo
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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

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

Old Galician-Portuguese

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solo

  1. alternative form of soo

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.

Derived from Portuguese sol and Spanish sol and Kabuverdianu sol.

solo

  1. sun

Borrowed from Italian solo, from Latin sōlus.

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

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.
      (please add an English translation of this quotation)

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

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
  1. ^ Ross Clark and Simon J. Greenhill, editors (2011), “solo.3”, in “POLLEX-Online: The Polynesian Lexicon Project Online”, in Oceanic Linguistics, volume 50, number 2, pages 551–9

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...

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

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.

solo m (plural solos)

  1. (astronomy) sun
    Synonym: solea

Borrowed from French solo, from Italian solo.

solo m (plural solos)

  1. (music) solo