Source etymology 1
Original entry ↗adj
Selected source glosses provide context, not a complete modern definition inventoryOnly. · Unmarried (especially of a woman); widowed. · Unique; unsurpassed. · With independent power; unfettered.
From Middle English sole, soule, from Old French sol, soul (“alone”), from Latin sōlus (“alone, single, solitary, lonely”). Ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *swé (reflexive pronoun). Perhaps related to Old Latin sollus (“whole, complete”), from Proto-Indo-European *solh₂- (“safe, healthy”). More at save.
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