English
solert
Solert comes from Latin sollers ‘skilled, skilful, clever, dexterous, adroit,…’, and goes back to Proto-Indo-European *h₂er- ‘to fit, to fix, to put together, to slot’.
- Proto-Indo-Europeanc. 4500–2500 BCE*h₂er-‘to fit, to fix, to put together, to slot’reconstructed
- Proto-Indo-European, derivedc. 4500–2500 BCE*h₂értisreconstructed
- Proto-Italicc. 1500–700 BCE*artisreconstructed
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEars‘art, skill, craft, handicraft’
- Latin, derivedc. 75 BCE–200 CEsollersas solers‘skilled, skilful, clever, dexterous, adroit, expert’
- Englishearliest quotation 1678solert
attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed
Lineage
- Proto-Indo-Europeanc. 4500–2500 BCE*h₂er-‘to fit, to fix, to put together, to slot’reconstructed
- Proto-Indo-European, derivedc. 4500–2500 BCE*h₂értisreconstructed
- Proto-Italicc. 1500–700 BCE*artisreconstructed
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEars‘art, skill, craft, handicraft’
- Latin, derivedc. 75 BCE–200 CEsollersas solers‘skilled, skilful, clever, dexterous, adroit, expert’
- Englishearliest quotation 1678solert
Earliest quotation: 1678, Ralph Cudworth: “And therefore Aristotle justly reprehended Anaxagoras for that absurd…”
Linked words
through Proto-Indo-European *h₂er- ‘to fit, to fix, to put together, to slot’
ready, order, rate, reason, army, arm, article, ordinary, ratio, alarm, harmony, armor, coordination, coordinate, anarchy, subordinate, arthritis, ordination, arithmetic, articulate, harmonic, ornament, aristocratic, ornate, harmonious, artisan, armament, adorn, articulation, ordinate, ordinator, armadillo, harmonize, ordinal, armature, archon, rime, ordain, ordo, rta, 72 more
through Proto-Indo-European *h₂értis
through Proto-Italic *artis
through Latin ars ‘art, skill, craft, handicraft’
Today it means
adj skillful; clever; crafty
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / Proto-Indo-European *h₂er- / solert