Sol vs Sot - What's the difference?
sol | sot |
(music) The fifth step in the scale of C (Ut), preceded by fa and followed by la.
(label) A solar day on Mars (equivalent to 24 hours, 39 minutes, 35 seconds).
gold
A Spanish-American gold or silver coin, now the main currency unit of Peru (also new sol ) , or a coin of this value.
* (rfdate), M. Le Page Du Pratz, History of Louisiana :
A type of colloid in which a solid is dispersed in a liquid.
(archaic) stupid person; fool
* 1610 , , act 3 scene 2
* Oldham
drunkard
* Roscommon
To drink until one becomes drunk
To stupefy; to infatuate; to besot.
* Dryden
As nouns the difference between sol and sot
is that sol is while sot is soot.sol
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) (m) in the hymn for St. John the Baptist all note names were take from.Alternative forms
* so, sohNoun
(-)Etymology 2
.Noun
(en noun)- (Chaucer)
See also
* Sol * yestersolEtymology 3
From (etyl) .Noun
(en noun)- Three days after, the Great Sun, his brother, sent me another deer-skin of the same oil, to the quantity of forty pints. The most common sort sold this year at twenty sols a pint, and I was sure mine was not of the worst kind.
Etymology 4
An abbreviation of (solution)Noun
(-)Etymology 5
, from (etyl) (m)Anagrams
* English terms with multiple etymologies ----sot
English
Noun
(en noun)- Remember / First to possess his books; for without them / He's but a sot , as I am
- In Egypt oft has seen the Sot bow down, / And reverence some deified Baboon.
- Every sign / That calls the staring sots to nasty wine.
Derived terms
* sottishVerb
- I hate to see a brave, bold fellow sotted .