suelo

Inherited from Old Spanish suelo, from Latin solum (“floor; ground or soil”).

suelo m (Hebrew spelling סואילו)^[1]

1. dirt; earth; ground; soil
   • 1982, Enrique Saporta y Beja, En torno de la torre blanca‎^[1], Editions Vidas Largas, page 218:

     Estas moradas eran tchikas komo "un kulo de pipino", un verdadero hendek. Se kompozavan, kaje syempre, de una unika kamareta kon el suelo de tyerra pizada.

     These houses were small like ‘a cucumber’s bottom’; really [a] pit. They were almost always assembled from a unique room with a flattened land’s soil.

   • 2002, Los Muestros‎^[2], numbers 46–49, R. Capuia, page 39:

     Delante de mi kozina un arbol estaba al suelo, las raïses a l’ayre.

     There was a tree on the ground in front of my kitchen, the roots in the air.

2. (countable) floor (the interior bottom or surface of a house or building; the supporting surface of a room)
   • 1553, “Reyes Primero, VI”, in Yom Tob Atías, Abraham Usque, transl., Biblia de Ferrara‎^[3], page 243:

     Y edificó à paredes de la caſa, dentro, cõ tablas de cedros,de ſuelo de la caſa haſta paredes de avigamiento cubrio de leño de dentro, y cubrio à ſuelo de la caſa con tabla de boxes.

     And he built the walls of the house within with boards of cedar; from the floor of the house unto the joists of the ceiling, he covered them on the inside with wood; and he covered the floor of the house with boards of cypress.

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

suelo

1. first-person singular present indicative of soler

Inherited from Latin solum (“floor; ground or soil”).

suelo m (plural suelos)

1. ground (planet’s surface)
   • 1443, Juan Eusebio Nieremberg, Cvruiosa y Ocvlta Filosofia. Primera, y Segvnda Parte de las marauillas de las naturaleza, examinadas en varias queſtiones naturales.‎^[4], page 17:

     […] vioſe que eſtaua eſponjoſo el ſuelo en aquella parte, […]

     One had seen that the ground was spongy there.

2. (countable) floor (the interior bottom or surface of a house or building; the supporting surface of a room)

   Synonyms: piso, tabaka

• Ladino: suelo, סואילו
• Spanish: suelo

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

suelo

1. first-person singular present indicative of soler

• Ralph Steele Boggs et al. (1946) “suelo”, in Tentative Dictionary of Medieval Spanish, volume II, Chapel Hill, page 483

• IPA^(key): /ˈswelo/ [ˈswe.lo]
• Rhymes: -elo
• Syllabification: sue‧lo

Inherited from Old Spanish suelo, from Latin solum (“floor; ground, soil”).

suelo m (plural suelos)

1. dirt; earth; ground; soil

   Synonym: tierra

2. (countable) floor (the interior bottom or surface of a house or building; the supporting surface of a room)

   Synonym: piso

suelo

1. first-person singular present indicative of solar

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

suelo

1. first-person singular present indicative of soler: “I usually”

   Suelo venir a las cinco.

   I usually come at five o’clock.

• “suelo”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 10 December 2024