Etymograph

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’.

  1. Proto-Indo-Europeanc. 4500–2500 BCE*h₂er-1‘to fit, to fix, to put together, to slot’reconstructed
  2. Proto-Indo-Europeanc. 4500–2500 BCE*h₂értis1reconstructed
  3. Proto-Italicc. 1500–700 BCE*artis1reconstructed
  4. Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEars1‘art, skill, craft, handicraft’
  5. Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEsollers2as solers‘skilled, skilful, clever, dexterous, adroit, expert’
  6. Englishearliest quotation 1678solert2

attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed deepest recorded ancestor

  1. 1 Wiktionary, Latin sollers
  2. 2 Wiktionary, English solert
  3. Earliest quotation in Wiktionary’s entry: 1678, Ralph Cudworth: “And therefore Aristotle justly reprehended Anaxagoras for that absurd…”.

Lineage

  1. Proto-Indo-Europeanc. 4500–2500 BCE*h₂er-Wiktionary, Latin sollers‘to fit, to fix, to put together, to slot’reconstructed
  2. Proto-Indo-Europeanc. 4500–2500 BCE*h₂értisWiktionary, Latin sollersreconstructed
  3. Proto-Italicc. 1500–700 BCE*artisWiktionary, Latin sollersreconstructed
  4. Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEarsWiktionary, Latin sollers‘art, skill, craft, handicraft’
  5. Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEsollersWiktionary, English solertas solers‘skilled, skilful, clever, dexterous, adroit, expert’
  6. Englishearliest quotation 1678solertWiktionary, English solert. Earliest quotation in Wiktionary’s entry: 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, 71 more

through Proto-Indo-European *h₂értis

artistically, 17 more

through Proto-Italic *artis

artistic, artiste, 18 more

through Latin ars ‘art, skill, craft, handicraft’

art, artist, inertia, inert, artifice, 20 more

Today it means

adj skillful; clever; crafty

Sources

Sources: Wiktionary, “solert”; the older steps come from the Wiktionary entry for Latin sollers. 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 *h₂er- / solert

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