soltero
See also: Soltero
Asturian
[edit]Adjective
[edit]soltero
Spanish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Inherited from Latin sōlitārius (“lonely”).[1] Compare Portuguese solteiro, Catalan solter. See also the borrowed doublet solitario. Another theory, perhaps less likely, derives it from suelto, from Latin solutus (“unbound, released, free, at large”).[2]
Pronunciation
[edit]Adjective
[edit]soltero (feminine soltera, masculine plural solteros, feminine plural solteras)
Noun
[edit]soltero m (plural solteros, feminine soltera, feminine plural solteras)
- single (one who is not married or does not have a romantic partner)
- bachelor (a man who has never married), bachelorette (a woman who has never married)
Derived terms
[edit]Related terms
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ “soltero”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10
- ^ (Please provide the book title or journal name)[1], 2016 June 8 (last accessed), archived from the original on 30 July 2016
Further reading
[edit]- “soltero”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10
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