solitudo
Latin
Etymology
From sōlus (“alone; solitary, deserted”) + -tūdō.
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /soː.liˈtuː.doː/, [s̠oːlʲɪˈt̪uːd̪oː]
- (Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /so.liˈtu.do/, [soliˈt̪uːd̪o]
Noun
sōlitūdō f (genitive sōlitūdinis); third declension
- An instance of being alone; loneliness, solitariness, solitude, privacy
- A lonely place; desert, wilderness
- A state of want, destitution, deprivation
Declension
Third-declension noun.
| Case | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| Nominative | sōlitūdō | sōlitūdinēs |
| Genitive | sōlitūdinis | sōlitūdinum |
| Dative | sōlitūdinī | sōlitūdinibus |
| Accusative | sōlitūdinem | sōlitūdinēs |
| Ablative | sōlitūdine | sōlitūdinibus |
| Vocative | sōlitūdō | sōlitūdinēs |
Related terms
Related terms
- sōlicanus
- sōliloquium
- sōlitāneus
- sōlitārius
- sōlitās
- sōlitātim
- sōlum
- sōlummodo
- sōlus
Descendants
- Catalan: solitud
- English: solitude
- French: solitude
- Italian: solitudine
- Portuguese: solidão, solitude
- Romanian: solitudine
- Spanish: soledumbre, solitud
References
- “solitudo”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “solitudo”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- solitudo in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
- solitudo in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette
- Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
- to live in solitude: in solitudine vivere (Fin. 3. 20. 65)
- to live in solitude: in solitudine vivere (Fin. 3. 20. 65)