solitudo

Latin

Etymology

From sōlus (“alone; solitary, deserted”) +‎ -tūdō.

Pronunciation

Noun

sōlitūdō f (genitive sōlitūdinis); third declension

  1. An instance of being alone; loneliness, solitariness, solitude, privacy
  2. A lonely place; desert, wilderness
  3. A state of want, destitution, deprivation

Declension

Third-declension noun.

singular plural
nominative sōlitūdō sōlitūdinēs
genitive sōlitūdinis sōlitūdinum
dative sōlitūdinī sōlitūdinibus
accusative sōlitūdinem sōlitūdinēs
ablative sōlitūdine sōlitūdinibus
vocative sōlitūdō sōlitūdinēs

Descendants

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[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
    • to live in solitude: in solitudine vivere (Fin. 3. 20. 65)
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