sold

See also: Sold and șold

English

Etymology 1

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /səʊld/
• (Estuary English) IPA^(key): [sɒʊ(ɫ)d]
• (US, Canada) IPA^(key): /soʊld/

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• (General Australian) IPA^(key): /səʉld/, /sɐʉld/
• (New Zealand) IPA^(key): /sɐʉld/
• Rhymes: -əʊld

Verb

sold

1. simple past and past participle of sell

Derived terms

• oversold
• undersold

Etymology 2

From Middle English solde, sould, soud, from Middle French solde, Italian soldo. Compare soldier and Danish sold (via Low German). Doublet of sol, soldo, solid, solidus, sou, and xu.

Noun

sold

1. (obsolete) salary; military pay
   • 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book II, Canto IX”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:

     But were your will her sold to entertaine

   • 1601, William Barlow, A Defense of the Articles of the Protestant Religion in answer to a libell lately cast abroad:

     Lying in campe under sold and pay, fighting as souldiers.

Anagrams

• DLOs, LODs, LoDs, OSDL, Olds, dols, lods, olds

Danish

Etymology 1

From Old Norse sáld, from Proto-Germanic *sēdlą (“sieve”).

Noun

sold n (singular definite soldet, plural indefinite sold)

1. sieve

Etymology 2

From Middle Low German solt.

Noun

sold

1. a wage, especially one paid to mercenaries

References

• “sold” in Den Danske Ordbog

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from French solde.

Noun

sold n (plural solduri)

1. (finance) balance

Declension

Declension of sold

	singular		plural
	indefinite articulation	definite articulation	indefinite articulation	definite articulation
nominative/accusative	(un) sold	soldul	(niște) solduri	soldurile
genitive/dative	(unui) sold	soldului	(unor) solduri	soldurilor
vocative	soldule		soldurilor