soda
English


Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈsəʊdə/
Audio (Southern England) (file) - (US) IPA(key): /ˈsoʊdə/
- Rhymes: -əʊdə
Noun
soda (countable and uncountable, plural sodas)
- (uncountable) Sodium bicarbonate (usually baking soda).
- (uncountable) Sodium carbonate (usually washing soda).
- (uncountable) Sodium in chemical combination.
- (uncountable) Carbonated water (water impregnated with pressurised carbon dioxide, originally made with sodium bicarbonate).
- 1963, Margery Allingham, chapter 5, in The China Governess:
- A waiter brought his aperitif, which was a small scotch and soda, and as he sipped it gratefully he sighed.
‘Civilized,’ he said to Mr. Campion. ‘Humanizing.’ […] ‘Cigars and summer days and women in big hats with swansdown face-powder, that's what it reminds me of.’
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- (chiefly US (regional, especially in the northeast), uncountable) Any carbonated (usually sweet) soft drink.
- (chiefly US (regional, especially in the northeast), countable) A glass, bottle or can of this drink.
- (card games) The first card in the dealing box in the game of faro, which is discarded to leave 51 cards in play.
Synonyms
- (drink, glass of this drink): carbonated drink, fizzy drink, fizz (UK), (fizzy) pop (Northern US, Canada), soda pop (US), soft drink, coke (Southern US), lemonade (Australia), thirst-buster (colloquial)
Derived terms
- baking soda
- bicarbonate of soda
- caustic soda
- club soda
- cream soda
- hydrosulfite of soda, hydrosulphite of soda
- ice-cream soda
- muriate of soda
- nitrate of soda
- soda-acid
- soda ash
- soda biscuit
- soda bread
- soda cellulose
- soda counter
- soda cracker
- soda fountain
- soda glass
- sodaic
- soda jerk
- soda jerker
- soda lake
- soda-lime glass
- sodalite
- soda lye
- sodamide
- soda niter, soda nitre
- soda paper
- soda pop
- soda prairie
- soda process
- soda pulp
- soda siphon
- Soda Springs
- soda waste
- soda water
- sodium
- sulfate of soda, sulphate of soda
- sulfite of soda, sulphite of soda
- washing soda
Translations
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Further reading
- “soda”, in The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th edition, Boston, Mass.: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2016, →ISBN.
Danish
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈsoːda/
Noun
soda c (singular definite sodaen, not used in plural form)
- soda (sodium carbonate)
- soda water
- Synonym: sodavand
Declension
common gender |
Singular | |
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indefinite | definite | |
nominative | soda | sodaen |
genitive | sodas | sodaens |
French
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /so.da/
Audio (Paris) (file) Audio (file)
Derived terms
Further reading
- “soda”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Italian
Etymology 1
Borrowed from Arabic سُوَيْدَاء (suwaydāʾ, “Suaeda”)—which has several variants in Arabic dialects only recorded later. Meanings of a beverage are semantic loan from English soda.
Alternative forms
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈsɔ.da/
- Rhymes: -ɔda
- Hyphenation: sò‧da
Noun
soda f (plural sode)
- (obsolete) parts of certain plants high in mineral salts the ashes in particular of which were used in glassmaking
- soda, sodium carbonate
- Synonym: carbonato di sodio
- soda water
- Synonym: seltz
Latvian
Declension
singular (vienskaitlis) | plural (daudzskaitlis) | |
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nominative (nominatīvs) | soda | — |
accusative (akuzatīvs) | sodu | — |
genitive (ģenitīvs) | sodas | — |
dative (datīvs) | sodai | — |
instrumental (instrumentālis) | sodu | — |
locative (lokatīvs) | sodā | — |
vocative (vokatīvs) | soda | — |
Lithuanian
Etymology 1
Belonging to the family of Lithuanian sodinti.
Declension
singular (vienaskaita) | plural (daugiskaita) | |
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nominative (vardininkas) | sodà | sõdos |
genitive (kilmininkas) | sodõs | sodų̃ |
dative (naudininkas) | sõdai | sodóms |
accusative (galininkas) | sõdą | sodàs |
instrumental (įnagininkas) | sodà | sodomìs |
locative (vietininkas) | sodojè | sodosè |
vocative (šauksmininkas) | sõda | sõdos |
References
- “soda”, in Lietuvių kalbos žodynas [Dictionary of the Lithuanian language], lkz.lt, 1941–2023
- Fraenkel, Ernst (1955, 1962–1965), “sodà”, in Litauisches etymologisches Wörterbuch, volume II, Heidelberg-Göttingen: Carl Winter and Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, page 854
Noun
sodà f (plural sòdos) stress pattern 2
- (chiefly in the singular) soda (chemical compound containing sodium)
- kaustinė soda ― caustic soda, sodium hydroxide
- kalcinuota soda ― calcined soda, sodium carbonate
- kepimo soda, maistinė soda ― baking soda, [food-related] soda, sodium bicarbonate
Declension
singular (vienaskaita) | plural (daugiskaita) | |
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nominative (vardininkas) | sodà | sòdos |
genitive (kilmininkas) | sòdos | sòdų |
dative (naudininkas) | sòdai | sòdoms |
accusative (galininkas) | sòdą | sodàs |
instrumental (įnagininkas) | sodà | sòdomis |
locative (vietininkas) | sòdoje | sòdose |
vocative (šauksmininkas) | sòda | sòdos |
References
- “soda”, in Lietuvių kalbos žodynas [Dictionary of the Lithuanian language], lkz.lt, 1941–2023
Norwegian Nynorsk
Etymology 1
From Italian sodo, possibly from Latin solidus (“solid”). The second sense is borrowed from English.
Noun
soda m (definite singular sodaen, indefinite plural sodaar or sodaer, definite plural sodaane or sodaene)
Etymology 2
See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
Polish
Etymology
From Medieval Latin soda.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈsɔ.da/
Audio (file) - Rhymes: -ɔda
- Syllabification: so‧da
Declension
Portuguese
Pronunciation
- (Brazil) IPA(key): /ˈsɔ.dɐ/
- (Southern Brazil) IPA(key): /ˈsɔ.da/
- (Portugal) IPA(key): /ˈsɔ.dɐ/ [ˈsɔ.ðɐ]
Noun
soda f (plural sodas)
- (historical) parts of certain plants high in mineral salts the ashes in particular of which were used in glassmaking
- soda (carbonated water)
- soda (sweet, carbonated drink)
- Synonyms: refrigerante, refresco
Related terms
Verb
soda
- inflection of sodar:
- third-person singular present indicative
- second-person singular imperative
Serbo-Croatian
Slovene
Spanish
Etymology
16th-century borrowing from Italian soda. Doublet of sosa acquired earlier from Catalan. Meanings of a beverage are semantic loan from English soda.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈsoda/ [ˈso.ð̞a]
- Rhymes: -oda
- Syllabification: so‧da
Noun
soda f (plural sodas)
- (historical) parts of certain plants high in mineral salts the ashes in particular of which were used in glassmaking
- soda (soft drink)
- soda (sodium hydroxide)
- Synonym: sosa
- (Costa Rica, Panama, rarely in United States) cheap, casual restaurant
Derived terms
Further reading
- “soda”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014
Swahili
Pronunciation
Audio (Kenya) (file)
Etymology 2
Borrowed from Arabic سَوْدَاء (sawdāʾ, “black bile”).
Swedish
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /²suːda/
Declension
Declension of soda | ||||
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Uncountable | ||||
Indefinite | Definite | |||
Nominative | soda | sodan | — | — |
Genitive | sodas | sodans | — | — |
Synonyms
- natriumkarbonat
Related terms
- sodalut
- sodavatten
References
Veps
Etymology
From Proto-Finnic *sota.
Inflection
Inflection of soda (inflection type 5/sana) | |||
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nominative sing. | soda | ||
genitive sing. | sodan | ||
partitive sing. | sodad | ||
partitive plur. | sodoid | ||
singular | plural | ||
nominative | soda | sodad | |
accusative | sodan | sodad | |
genitive | sodan | sodoiden | |
partitive | sodad | sodoid | |
essive-instructive | sodan | sodoin | |
translative | sodaks | sodoikš | |
inessive | sodas | sodoiš | |
elative | sodaspäi | sodoišpäi | |
illative | sodaha sodha |
sodoihe | |
adessive | sodal | sodoil | |
ablative | sodalpäi | sodoilpäi | |
allative | sodale | sodoile | |
abessive | sodata | sodoita | |
comitative | sodanke | sodoidenke | |
prolative | sodadme | sodoidme | |
approximative I | sodanno | sodoidenno | |
approximative II | sodannoks | sodoidennoks | |
egressive | sodannopäi | sodoidennopäi | |
terminative I | sodahasai sodhasai |
sodoihesai | |
terminative II | sodalesai | sodoilesai | |
terminative III | sodassai | — | |
additive I | sodahapäi sodhapäi |
sodoihepäi | |
additive II | sodalepäi | sodoilepäi |