Why do you think the word solar is derived from the root that means "only"?

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Why do you think the word solar is derived from the root that means "only"?

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middle-school

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I think it is because solar energy can only be accessed from the sun and nothing else

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i would assume during the early stages of humans, we knew we lived in the Solar system, but we decide to use only since we thought we were the only people in the cosmos

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