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sollo

sollo

Italian

Adjective

sollo m (feminine singular solla, masculine plural solli, feminine plural solle) (literary)

  1. yielding, supple, soft (especially of ground)
    • 1472, Dante Alighieri, La divina commedia: Inferno, Le Monnier (1994), Canto XVI, p. 239 vv. 28-29:
      E «Se miseria d'esto loco sollo ¶ rende in dispetto noi e nostri prieghi», [...]
      And, «If the misery of this soft place ¶ bring in disdain ourselves and our entreaties», [...]
  2. (figuratively) compliant, yielding

Latin

Adjective

sollō

  1. dative masculine singular of sollus
  2. dative neuter singular of sollus
  3. ablative masculine singular of sollus
  4. ablative neuter singular of sollus