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*sóh₂wl̥1‘sun’reconstructed
  2. Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEsōl1‘sun’
  3. Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEsōlāris1‘of or pertaining to the sun’
  4. Middle Englishc. 1150–1500solar1
  5. Englishearliest quotation 1627solar1

attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed deepest recorded ancestor

  1. 1 Wiktionary, English solar
  2. Earliest quotation in Wiktionary’s entry: 1627, (please specify the page, or |century=I to X): “They denominate some herbs solar, and some lunar.”.

Lineage

  1. Proto-Indo-Europeanc. 4500–2500 BCE*sóh₂wl̥Wiktionary, English solar‘sun’reconstructed
  2. Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEsōlWiktionary, English solar‘sun’
  3. Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEsōlārisWiktionary, English solar‘of or pertaining to the sun’
  4. Middle Englishc. 1150–1500solarWiktionary, English solar
  5. Englishearliest quotation 1627solarWiktionary, English solar. Earliest quotation in Wiktionary’s entry: 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. Englishtodaysolar

Today it means

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

Sources

Sources: Wiktionary, “solar”. By Wiktionary contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0, via kaikki.org (dump of Oct 3 2026); text adapted and restructured. Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word. License.

Etymograph / Proto-Indo-European *sóh₂wl̥ / solar

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