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Do people actually call the Sun "Sol"? I thought that was more of a video game thing.
by patrickmcnamara 2y ago
Do people actually call the Sun "Sol"? I thought that was more of a video game thing.
- shiroiushi 2y agoThe Romance languages use that name (or something very closely related). English uses "Sun", but just as it borrows a ton of stuff from Latin/French/etc., it also borrows "Sol" for its word "solar". Also, Captain Archer in Enterprise used the name Sol when making contact with aliens.
- wongarsu 2y agoAnd in Germanic mythology the personification of the sun is Sól. In PIE it's sunnōn. In some languages that evolved to some variation of sun or son, in some to became sol (notably Latin). And many use both variations in some capacity
- Quekid5 2y agoI can't think of any English-speaking places that do... but you see it used in "solar", for example.
- fimdomeio 2y agoIf you speak Portuguese or Spanish, yes.
- sph 2y agoLatins and medieval scientists did. In Italian we call it "Sole".
- konart 2y agoIt's Солнце (Solntse) in Russian.