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+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=derivation|attested=Ovid|origins=la sōl}}
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+ ==Pronunciation==
+ * IPA (Classical): [soːˈɫaː.rɪs]^(Wiktionary)
+ * IPA (Ecclesiastical): [soˈlaː.ris]^(Wiktionary)
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+ ==Forms==
+ '''sōlāris''' (neuter sōlāre); third-declension two-termination adjective^(Wiktionary)
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+ ==Etymology==
+ It is from [[sōl]] “sun” with the suffix [[-āris]].^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)^(Lewis & Short 1879) Etymonline traces ⟨sōl⟩ to [[ine-pro|*sawel-|t=the sun]].^(Etymonline)
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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==
+ Köbler's first source is Ovid, whom he dates 43 BC–18 AD, and Lewis and Short cite Ovid's ''lūmen sōlāre'' and call the word not ante-Augustan.^(Köbler 2010)^(Lewis & Short 1879)
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+ ==Semantic evolution==
+ It meant of the sun, solar, as Seneca's solar and lunar rainbows and Pliny's ''circulus sōlāris'', and exposed to the sun.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Gaffiot 2016) ''Herba sōlāris'' in Celsus was a plant whose flowers turn to the sun, the heliotrope.^(OLD 2012)^(Gaffiot 2016)
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+ In Ecclesiastical Latin it meant solar, of the sun.^(Stelten 1995) British Medieval Latin applied it figuratively to the Virgin Mary and used it in computing time, the solar year.^(DMLBS) It survives in Italian ''solare'', French ''solaire'' and Spanish ''solar'', and [[en|solar]] came in the mid-15th century.^(Wiktionary)^(Etymonline)
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+ ==Timeline==
+ * 43 BC–18 AD – Ovid uses ''lūmen sōlāre''.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)
+ * 14–37 AD – Celsus uses ''herba sōlāris''.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)
+ * 4 BC–65 AD – Seneca speaks of solar rainbows.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)
+ * mid-15th century – English ''solar'' is recorded.^(Etymonline)
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+ ==Meanings==
+ ===Adjective===
+ # Of the sun, [[m|en|solar]]; exposed to the sun.^(OLD 2012)
+ # ''herba sōlāris'', the [[m|en|heliotrope]].^(OLD 2012)
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+ ==Related words==
+ * [[sōl]]
+ * [[sōlāgō]]
+ * [[sōlānus]]
+ * [[sōlārium]]
+ * [[sōlātus]]
+ * [[sōlstitiālis]]
+ * [[sōlstitium]]
+ * [[en|solar]]
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+ ==References==
+ {{reflist}}