soldo - Wiktionary, the free dictionary
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From Italian soldo, from Latin solidum. Doublet of sol, sold, solid, solidus, sou, and xu.
soldo (plural soldi or soldos)
- (historical) An Italian coin, formerly one-twentieth of a lira.
2006, Thomas Pynchon, Against the Day, Vintage, published 2007, page 647:
That's twelve soldi. I'd be lucky to get as much as a franc for one painting.
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soldo (accusative singular soldon, plural soldoj, accusative plural soldojn)
- (military) military pay
- La duaklasa soldato, kiu estas malfeliĉe kun la magra soldo, decidis ne resoldatiĝi.
- The private, unhappy with the meager military pay decided not to reenlist.
- La duaklasa soldato, kiu estas malfeliĉe kun la magra soldo, decidis ne resoldatiĝi.
From Old Galician-Portuguese soldo, from Late Latin soldus, from Latin solidus (“gold coin”).
soldo m (plural soldos)
soldo
Inherited from Latin soldus, syncope of (nummus) solidus (“solid (coin)”) (referring to the gold content), from Proto-Indo-European *solh₂- (“whole”). Doublet of solido and sodo.
soldo m (plural soldi)
soldō
From Old Galician-Portuguese soldo, from Late Latin soldus, from contraction of Latin solidus (“gold coin”). Doublet of sólido.
- sôldo (pre-reform spelling)
- Hyphenation: sol‧do
soldo m (plural soldos)
- (historical, numismatics) solidus (late Roman gold coin)
- (historical, numismatics) a medieval Portuguese coin
- salary or wage; any payment for a service
- Synonym: salário
- (Brazil, specifically) military salary
See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
- Hyphenation: sol‧do
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