Etymograph

English

solar

Solar comes from Latin sōlāris ‘of or pertaining to the sun, solar’, and goes back to Proto-Indo-European *sóh₂wl̥.

  1. Proto-Indo-Europeanc. 4500–2500 BCE*sóh₂wl̥‘sun’reconstructed
  2. Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEsōl‘sun’
  3. Latin, derivedc. 75 BCE–200 CEsōlāris‘of or pertaining to the sun’
  4. Middle Englishc. 1150–1500solar
  5. Englishearliest quotation 1627same form

attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed

Lineage

  1. Proto-Indo-Europeanc. 4500–2500 BCE*sóh₂wl̥‘sun’reconstructed
  2. Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEsōl‘sun’
  3. Latin, derivedc. 75 BCE–200 CEsōlāris‘of or pertaining to the sun’
  4. Middle Englishc. 1150–1500solar
  5. Englishearliest quotation 1627same form

Earliest quotation: 1627, (please specify the page, or |century=I to X): “They denominate some herbs solar, and some lunar.”

Linked words

through Proto-Indo-European *sóh₂wl̥ ‘sun’

sun, southern, helium, parasol, 5 more

through Latin sōl ‘sun’

sol, soleil, solano, 7 more

Another origin of solar

  1. Middle Englishc. 1150–1500solar
  2. Englishtodaysame form

Today it means

adj Of or pertaining to the sun; proceeding from the sun.

Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.

Etymograph / Proto-Indo-European *sóh₂wl̥ / solar

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