solstitium
Latin
Etymology
From sōl + sistō + -ium, perfect passive participle of stō.
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /soːlˈsti.ti.um/, [s̠oːɫ̪ˈs̠t̪ɪt̪iʊ̃ˑ]
- (Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /solˈstit.t͡si.um/, [solˈst̪it̪ː͡s̪ium]
Noun
sōlstitium n (genitive sōlstitiī or sōlstitī); second declension
- summer solstice
- summer (hottest part of the year)
- solstice
Declension
Second-declension noun (neuter).
Case | Singular | Plural |
---|---|---|
Nominative | sōlstitium | sōlstitia |
Genitive | sōlstitiī sōlstitī1 | sōlstitiōrum |
Dative | sōlstitiō | sōlstitiīs |
Accusative | sōlstitium | sōlstitia |
Ablative | sōlstitiō | sōlstitiīs |
Vocative | sōlstitium | sōlstitia |
1Found in older Latin (until the Augustan Age).
Descendants
- → Old French: solstice (learned)
- French: solstice
- → Middle English: solstice
- English: solstice
- → German: Solstitium (learned)
- → Italian: solstizio (learned)
- → Portuguese: solstício (learned)
- → Romanian: solstițiu (learned)
- → Spanish: solsticio (learned)
Further reading
- “solstitium”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “solstitium”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- solstitium 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)
- solstitium in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette