solstitium
Latin
Etymology
From sōl + sistō + -ium, perfect passive participle of stō.
Pronunciation
- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [soːɫˈstɪ.ti.ũː]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [solˈst̪it̪.t̪͡s̪i.um]
Noun
sōlstitium n (genitive sōlstitiī or sōlstitī); second declension
- summer solstice
- summer (hottest part of the year)
- solstice
Declension
Second-declension noun (neuter).
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
- →? Albanian: solstiku (learned)
- → Asturian: solsticiu (learned)
- →? Basque: solstizio (learned)
- → Catalan: solstici (learned)
- →? Franco-Provençal: solstiço (learned)
- →? Friulian: solstizi (learned)
- → Galician: solsticio (learned)
- → German: Solstitium (learned)
- → Italian: solstizio (learned)
- → Occitan: solstici (learned)
- → Old French: solstice (learned)
- → Portuguese: solstício (learned)
- → Romanian: solstițiu (learned)
- → Serbo-Croatian: sòlstīcīj / со̀лстӣцӣј (learned)
- →? Sicilian: solstìtziu (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.