soul

Signification

Noun

1. The spirit or essence of a person usually thought to consist of one's thoughts and personality, often believed to live on after the person's death.
2. The spirit or essence of anything.
3. Life, energy, vigor.
4. Soul music.
5. A person, especially as one among many.
6. An individual life.
7. A kind of submanifold involved in the soul theorem of Riemannian geometry.

Verb

1. (obsolete) To endow with a soul or mind.
2. To beg on All Soul's Day.

Verb

To feed or nourish.

Prononcé comme (IPA)

/səʊl/

Étymologie

From Middle English soule, sowle, saule, sawle, from Old English sāwol (“soul, life, spirit, being”), from Proto-West Germanic *saiwalu, from Proto-Germanic *saiwalō (“soul”), of uncertain ultimate origin (see there for further information). Cognate with Scots saul, sowel (“soul”), North Frisian siel, sial (“soul”), Saterland Frisian Seele (“soul”), West Frisian siel (“soul”), Dutch ziel (“soul”), German Seele (“soul”) Scandinavian homonyms seem to have been borrowed from Old Saxon *siala. Modern Danish sjæl, Swedish själ, Norwegian sjel. Icelandic sál may have come from Old English sāwol.

Phrases

We were all made by the same hand , and we have the same soul .

Nous étions tous faits par la même main, et nous avons la même âme.

Sometimes the human soul is conceived not in human but in animal form .

Parfois, l'âme humaine n'est pas conçue en humaine mais sous forme animale.