soleo

Meaning

to be accustomed, used to, in the habit of

Concepts

be used to

accustomed

be accustomed

be wont

Synonyms

soleō

Translations

üblicherweise getan haben

habitué

avoir l’habitude

abituato

accostumato

gewend

nieuw

🆕

usual

habituado

soler

alışık

Pronounced as (IPA)

[ˈsɔ.ɫe.oː]

Etymology

PIE word
*swé
Uncertain.
* Based on semantic similarity to suēscō (“to become used to”) and sodālis (“close companion”), Walde-Hoffmann (1954) and Pokorny (1959) opt for *sodeō, from Proto-Italic *sweðēō, from earlier *sweðējō, from Proto-Indo-European *swé-dʰh₁-eh₂-, from Proto-Indo-European *swe-dʰh₁- expanded through the reflexive pronoun Proto-Indo-European *swé (“self”) + *dʰeh₁- (“to put, place, set”), thus the original sense to "set as one's own", as in the later formed suificō.
* De Vaan (2008) rejects this etymology on the grounds that a following front vowel ē should have blocked the *swe- > so- shift. Instead he derives it from Proto-Indo-European *sel- (“place, habitation”), via the iterative *sol-eye- "to occupy habitually, inhabit" or directly from Latin solum (“base, ground; country”) - cf. the similar semantic relationship between habitō and habitus.