solacium

Latin

Alternative forms

Etymology

From sōlor (to comfort, console, solace) +‎ -āx +‎ -ium.

Pronunciation

Noun

sōlācium n (genitive sōlāciī or sōlācī); second declension

  1. 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 [...]
  2. soothing, assuaging
  3. (law) compensation, indemnification

Declension

Second-declension noun (neuter).

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).

Descendants

  • Old French: solas, solaz, sollas, soulas
    • French: soulas (archaic)
    • English: solace
    • Irish: sólás
    • Middle Dutch: solas
    • Scottish Gaelic: sòlas
  • Italian: sollazzo, sollaccio
  • Old Occitan: solatz
  • 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[1], 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
  • solacium in Ramminger, Johann (16 July 2016 (last accessed)) Neulateinische Wortliste: Ein Wörterbuch des Lateinischen von Petrarca bis 1700[2], pre-publication website, 2005-2016
  • Walther von Wartburg (1928–2002) “solacium”, in Französisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch, volume 12: Sk–š, page 32
  • Meyer-Lübke, Wilhelm (1911) “solacium”, in Romanisches etymologisches Wörterbuch (in German), page 607