Noun: soleil
Gender: m
Hyphenation:
| Singular m | soleil |
| Plural m | soleils |
Sample Sentences
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Il fait soleil. (It is sunny.)
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Regarder le soleil fait mal aux yeux. (Looking at the sun hurts the eyes.)
Nouns inflected like soleil
trichogramme,
wintergreen,
urinoir,
contrespionnage,
aréomètre,
palefroi,
whiskey,
whippin,
tee-shirt,
hypocycloïde,
surrisque,
lanternon,
dissentiment,
phonogramme,
phonographe,
trioxygène,
fétichisme,
synode,
synthé,
modérantisme, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
Inherited from Middle French soleil, from Old French soleil, from Vulgar Latin *sōliculus, diminutive of Latin sōl (“sun”), from Proto-Indo-European *sóh₂wl̥. See: Latin Nouns '
sōl'.
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