solacium
Latin
Alternative forms
- sōlātium
Etymology
From sōlor (“to comfort, console, solace”) + -āx + -ium.
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /soːˈlaː.ki.um/, [s̠oːˈɫ̪äːkiʊ̃ˑ]
- (Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /soˈla.t͡ʃi.um/, [soˈläːt͡ʃium]
Noun
sōlācium n (genitive sōlāciī or sōlācī); second declension
- comfort, relief, solace
- 8 CE, Ovid, Fasti 1.441-442:
- intāctae fuerātis avēs, sōlācia rūris,
adsuētum silvīs innocuumque genus [...]- You birds lived untouched, as solaces of the countryside,
accustomed to the woods, and a harmless race [...]
- You birds lived untouched, as solaces of the countryside,
- intāctae fuerātis avēs, sōlācia rūris,
- soothing, assuaging
- (law) compensation, indemnification
Declension
Second-declension noun (neuter).
| Case | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| Nominative | sōlācium | sōlācia |
| Genitive | sōlāciī sōlācī1 | sōlāciōrum |
| Dative | sōlāciō | sōlāciīs |
| Accusative | sōlācium | sōlācia |
| Ablative | sōlāciō | sōlāciīs |
| Vocative | sōlācium | sōlācia |
1Found in older Latin (until the Augustan Age).
Related terms
- sōlāciolum
- sōlāmen
- sōlāmentum
- sōlātor
Descendants
- Old French: solas
- French: soulas
- → English: solace
- → Irish: sólás
- → Scottish Gaelic: sòlas
- → Italian: sollazzo, sollaccio
- Old Occitan: solatz
- Catalan: solaç
- → Old Portuguese: solaz
- Galician: solaz
- Portuguese: solaz
- → Spanish: solaz
- → Sicilian: suḍḍazzu
- → Spanish: solacio
References
- “solacium”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “solacium”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- solacium in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette
- Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
- to comfort: solacium praebere
- to solace oneself with the thought..: hoc solacio frui, uti
- I console myself with..: hoc (illo) solacio me consōlor
- to comfort: solacium praebere
- solacium in Ramminger, Johann (accessed 16 July 2016) Neulateinische Wortliste: Ein Wörterbuch des Lateinischen von Petrarca bis 1700, pre-publication website, 2005-2016
- Walther von Wartburg (1928–2002), “solacium”, in Französisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch (in German), volume 12: Sk–š, page 32
- Meyer-Lübke, Wilhelm (1911), “solacium”, in Romanisches etymologisches Wörterbuch (in German), page 607