sollemnis

Latin

Alternative forms

sōlemnis, sōlempnis, sōlennis, sollempnis, sollennis

Etymology 1

Traditionally from sollus (“whole, entire”) + annus (“year”), but the dissimilation within a geminate this requires is bizarre. Szemerényi proposes an old middle participle of soleo but has difficulty accounting for the geminate ll. Nussbaum offers sollus + epulum (“feast, banquet”), taking the latter component to have originally meant "ritual", with dissimilation ll...l > ll...n.^[1]

Pronunciation

(Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [sɔlˈlɛm.nɪs]
(modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [solˈlɛm.nis]

Adjective

sollemnis (neuter sollemne, comparative sollemnior, adverb sollemniter); third-declension two-termination adjective

yearly, annual
established, appointed, fixed
common, usual, customary, ordinary, ritual, traditional
Synonyms: ūsuālis, ōrdinārius, cotīdiānus
religious, solemn, ceremonial; festive

Declension

Third-declension two-termination adjective.

	masc./fem.	neuter	masc./fem.	neuter
	singular		plural
nominative	sollemnis	sollemne	sollemnēs	sollemnia
genitive	sollemnis		sollemnium
dative	sollemnī		sollemnibus
accusative	sollemnem	sollemne	sollemnēs sollemnīs	sollemnia
ablative	sollemnī		sollemnibus
vocative	sollemnis	sollemne	sollemnēs	sollemnia

Derived terms

Related terms

Descendants

Catalan: solemne
English: solemn
French: solennel
Italian: solenne
Portuguese: solene
Old French: solemne, solempne
Romanian: solemn
Spanish: solemne

Etymology 2

Inflected form of sollemne (“religious or solemn rite, ceremony”).

Noun

sollemnis

genitive singular of sollemne

References

“sollemnis”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
“sollemnis”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
sollemnis in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.

^ Nussbaum, Alan J. (1997) “The ‘Saussure Effect’ in Latin and Italic”, in Lubotsky, Alexander, editor, Sound Law and Analogy: Papers in honor of Robert S.P. Beekes on the occasion of his 60th birthday (Leiden Studies in Indo-European; 9), Amsterdam, Atlanta: Rodopi, →ISBN, pages 181–203

[1] Nussbaum, Alan J. (1997) “The ‘Saussure Effect’ in Latin and Italic”, in Lubotsky, Alexander, editor, Sound Law and Analogy: Papers in honor of Robert S.P. Beekes on the occasion of his 60th birthday (Leiden Studies in Indo-European; 9), Amsterdam, Atlanta: Rodopi, →ISBN, pages 181–203

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