sold

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈsəʊld/, [ˈsɒʊ(ɫ)d]
• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈsoʊld/

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• (New Zealand, General Australian) IPA^(key): /sɐʉld/, [sɒʊ(ɫ)d]
• Rhymes: -əʊld

sold

1. simple past and past participle of sell

• oversold
• undersold

From Middle English solde, sould, soud, from Middle French solde, Italian soldo. Compare soldier, sou, and Danish sold (via Low German).

sold

1. (obsolete) salary; military pay[1]
   • 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book II, Canto IX”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:

     But were your will her sold to entertaine

   • 1601, William Barlow, A Defense of the Articles of the Protestant Religion in answer to a libell lately cast abroad:

     Lying in campe under sold and pay, fighting as souldiers.

• DLOs, LODs, LoDs, OSDL, Olds, dols, lods, olds

From Old Norse sáld, from Proto-Germanic *sēdlą (“sieve”).

sold n (singular definite soldet, plural indefinite sold)

1. sieve

From Middle Low German solt.

sold

1. a wage, especially one paid to mercenaries

• “sold” in Den Danske Ordbog

Borrowed from French solde.

sold n (plural solduri)

1. (finance) balance