sollers

See also: Sollers

Danish

Noun

sollers n

1. indefinite genitive plural of sol

Latin

Alternative forms

• sōlers

Etymology

Etymology tree

Latin sollus

Proto-Indo-European *h₂er-

Proto-Indo-European *-tós

Proto-Indo-European *-is

Proto-Indo-European *-tis

Proto-Indo-European *h₂értis ~ *h₂r̥téys

Proto-Italic *artis

Latin ars

Latin sollers

From sollus (“unbroken”, “whole”, “complete”) + ars (“art”, “skill”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈsɔl.lɛrs]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈsɔl.lers]

Adjective

sollers (genitive sollertis, comparative sollertior, superlative sollertissimus, adverb sollerter); third-declension one-termination adjective

1. skilled, skilful, clever, dexterous, adroit, expert

   Synonyms: doctus, instructus, gnārus, callidus, perītus, cōnsultus

   Antonyms: rudis, inexpertus, stultus, hospes, imperītus, iners, ignārus

   • 54 BCE – 51 BCE, Cicero, De re publica 2.37:

     […] sic erat in omni vel officio vel sermone sollers.

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2. (of things) ingenious, sagacious, clever, intelligent, inventive

   Synonyms: callidus, sapiēns, prūdēns

   Antonyms: īnsipiēns, stupidus, fatuus, stultus, āmēns, dēmēns

   • 45 BCE, Cicero, De natura deorum 2.128:

     Atque ut intellegamus nihil horum esse fortuitum et haec omnia esse opera providae sollertisque naturae, […]

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

Declension

Third-declension one-termination adjective.

	singular			plural
	masc./fem.	neuter		masc./fem.	neuter
nominative	sollers			sollertēs	sollertia
genitive	sollertis			sollertium
dative	sollertī			sollertibus
accusative	sollertem	sollers		sollertīs sollertēs	sollertia
ablative	sollertī sollerte			sollertibus
vocative	sollers			sollertēs	sollertia

Derived terms

• sollertia

Descendants

• Italian: solerte
• Portuguese: solerte
• Spanish: solerte

References

• “sollers”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “sollers”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “sollers”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.