A Grammatical Dictionary of Botanical Latin

Sol, gen. sg. solis (s.m.III), dat.sg. soli, abl. sg. sole: the Sun; a sun;(chemistry; alchemy) gold; (in pl.) days, period of one’s life; in Gk. comp. heli-, helio-, q.v.; see occidens, see sun;

   singular  plural
Nom. sol     soles
Gen. solis   solum [note: not solium]
Dat. soli    solibus
Acc. solem   soles
Abl. sole    solibus

- rota solis, the disc of the sun.

- primus sol (s.m.III), the rising sun.

- rupes sole [abl.] expositus, rocks exposed to the sun; also rupes soli [dat.] expositus, exposed to the sun.

- in Freti Magellanici vallibus soli expositis (DeCandolle), at the Magellanic Strait in valleys exposed to the sun.

- [algae] Hab. ad rupes refluxu maris emersas soleque expósitas, ad littora Galloprovinciae et Italiae superioris (Agardh), it grows on rocks emersed [i.e. above and below the water] in the tidal ebb, exposed to the sun, on the beaches of Galloprovincia and upper Italy.

- radii solis, rays or beams of the sun, sunbeams (radius,-ii (s.m.II), abl.sg. radio: ray, beam of light).

- hic igitur fructus velut oliva exprimitur et succus illius in sole siccatur et in glebam redigitur ('Galen' in Everett), this fruit, then, is pressed like an olive and its juice is dried in the sun and [i.e. until] it is rendered into a lump [i.e. a gel].

- algae semper marinae et maria salsiora praeferentes, raro loca sole exposita inhabitantes (Agardh), an algae that is always marine and preferring the more salty seas, rarely inhabiting places exposed to the sun.

- [fungi] saepe, a sole praesertim justo citius tacta et exusta, in bullas varias corneas solidas pulvere destitutas indurata (S&A), often, especially if more quickly touched and dried out by a moderate sun, hardened into various bullae [i.e. blisters], with the texture of horn, solid, lacking dust [i.e. spores].

- verum praestantiae hujus coloris officit, quod aëris vicissitudines & solem non bene ferat, quod Theophrastus jam observavit, Plinius vero perperam scripsît, elui non posse (Dill.), nevertheless, reality interferes with excellence of this color, because it may not well endure the vicissitudes of the air and sun, which Theophrastus already observed, Pliny certainly incorrectly wrote that it was not possible to be rinsed off.

- Parisiis, apud Joannem Boudot, Regis & Regiae Scientiarum Academiae Typographum, via Jacobaea, ad Solem Aureum. M. DCCIII. Cum Privilegio Regis; at Paris, at the establishment of John Boudot, Typographer [i.e. printer] of the King and of the Royal Academy of Sciences, Jacobea street, at the [sign of the] Golden Sun. 1703. With the special right [i.e. prerogative] of the king.

Note: the king here is the Sun King, Louis IV (1638 – 1715).

Ros-solis, ‘dew of the sun;’ Sundew, = genus Drosera,-ae (s.f.I), > Gk. droseros, ‘dewy;’ see drosos; see ros, gen.sg. roris (s.m.III); see dew.